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A complete list of the men who have thus far been connected 

 with the Institution in the capacity of Trustee embraces 51 



names. Of these, 6 were members ex officio, 

 Tmttees. during the years 1902 and 1903, under the terms 



of the original charter. Of this total number, 23 

 are now deceased; and of the initial Trustees, 27 in number, 

 including members ex officio, only 7 remain. Those who, during 

 the year just ended, have passed on to increase the majority of 

 this initial company are Andrew Dickson White, Theodore 

 Roosevelt, and John Coit Spooner. All of these men are so well 

 known and so highly esteemed that it would be a work of super- 

 erogation to make mention of them here except for the proba- 

 bility that in the multitude of their national services the fact 

 that they were among the builders of the Institution might be 

 overlooked. The procession of current events is fatefully swift, 

 and we are constantly in danger of forgetting our obligations to 

 the dead while seeking to fulfil our obligations to the Uving. 



Andrew Dickson White was born at Homer, New York, 

 November 7, 1832, and died at his home in Ithaca, New York, 

 November 5, 1918. The history of his remarkable career as 

 student, teacher, author, university administrator, legislator, 

 diplomatist, man of letters, and man of the world, has been 

 very fully recorded in his admirable autobiography pubHshed 

 in 1905.* His richly varied experience in all these departments 

 of life gave him an uncommon equipment for consideration of 

 the questions which arose at the foundation of the Institution. 

 Although nearly 70 years of age when he became a Trustee, he 

 continued to serve in this capacity with the keenest of interest 

 and unfailing regularity for 15 years, resigning only when the 

 infirmities of age prevented him from attending the meetings 

 of the Board of Trustees. During the early part especially of 

 the present administration he was a counsellor of rare value. 

 The difficulties and the dangers which beset the Institution were 

 in many respects similar to what he called the ''rocks, storms, and 

 peril" encountered by him in the early development of Cornell 

 University. He was therefore a very sympathetic as well as a 

 very competent adviser concerning the courses that might be 



* The Century Company, New York, N. Y. 



