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INDEX 



gifts, i. 421; his chairmanship of the 

 board of trustees, i. 428 

 Sage, &quot;William, presents organ to Sage 

 Chapel at Cornell, i. 404 ; gifts to Cornell 

 Library, i. 421 



St. Andrews, University of, W. s visit to, 

 U. 209 ; Mr. Carnegie s rectorial address, 

 ii. 210; W. s reception of LL.D. degree, 

 ii. 210 



St. Januarius. liquefaction of the blood of, 

 ii. 552 



St. Josaphat, identity of, with Buddha, ii. 

 455 



St. Louis Exposition, German lack of in 

 terest in, ii. 204 



St. Paul Outside the Walls, W. s conver 

 sation with the Abbot of, ii. 420 



St. Paul s church school, Syracuse, i. 17 



St. Petersburg, ii. 6 



St. Petersburg, Archbishop of, miraculous 

 cure of, by Father Ivan, ii. 47 



St. Sophia, church of, W. greatly im 

 pressed by, ii. 440 



St. Vallier, Count de, French ambassador 

 at Berlin, i. 549 



Sainte-Claire-Deville, Henri, chemist, i. 

 522 



Salisbury, Lord, his attitude toward the 

 Venezuelan boundary question, ii. 118, 

 123, 130 



Salt Lake City, W. s visit to, ii. 449 



Samoan question, ii. 151-153 



Sanborn, Frank B., lecturer at Cornell, i. 

 379 



Santo Domingo, opinions of leading men 

 on annexation of, i. 484-488; views of 

 President Grant on, i. 179, 484, 487 ; con 

 dition of the country in 1871, i. 491, 498 ; 

 the Spanish priesthood, i. 497; the cli 

 mate, i. 506 ; value of the harbor of Sa- 

 mana, i. 507 



Santo Domingo Commission, 1871, i. 483; 

 members of, i. 484, 489 ; work of scien 

 tific experts, i. 488, 489 ; relations with 

 public officials in Santo Domingo, i. 

 490 ; attitude of the clergy toward an 

 nexation, i. 492 ; expedition across the 

 mountains, i. 493-500 ; study of earth 

 quakes, i. 496 ; at Port-au-Prince, i. 500 ; 

 in Jamaica, i. 502 ; experience with news 

 paper reporters, i. 503 ; the truth con 

 cerning Mr. Stunner s speeches in the 

 Senate, i. 504; report to Congress, i. 

 506 



Saratoga, life at, in 1843, ii. 376 



Sarpi, Paolo, W. s study of, ii. 194, 205, 412, 

 413, 498, 559 



Schenck, General, his reminiscences of 

 noted men, i. 221 



Scholarships and fellowships awarded by 

 competitive examination versus general 

 gratuitous instruction, i. 391-395 



Schurman, Jacob Gould, president of Cor 

 nell University, i. 440 



Schurz, Carl, impression made by, upon 

 W., i. 86; his address at the funeral of 

 Eduard Lasker, i. 201; his speeches on 

 the Santo Domingo question, i. 486 ; his 

 success in America explained to Bis 

 marck by W., i. 586 



Schuyler, George W., treasurer of Cornell 

 University, i. 415 



Schwartzhoff, Colonel, a delegate to the 

 Peace Conference, ii. 259 



Schweinitz, General von, German ambas 

 sador at St. Petersburg, ii. 12 



Scotland, W. s visit to, in 1888, ii. 429 



Scott, Winfield, Whig candidate for Presi 

 dent in 1852, i. 65 



Sc tt&amp;gt;s . novels, influence of. upon W. s 

 Hie, i. 15, 16 



Seal of the Confederacy, story concerning 

 i. 155, 156 



Seal ring, W. s, use of, on public occasions, 

 i. 174, ii. 345 



Sedgwick, Charles B., i. 123 



Seeley. Sir John Robert, his historical lec 

 tures, ii. 405, 406 



Senate, New York State, 1864-1867, prom 

 inent members of, i. 101-105 ; land-grant 

 fund discussion, i. 106, 295, 330; educa 

 tional bills passed, i. 107; special com 

 mittee investigation of the &quot; Health De 

 partment&quot; of New York City, i. 108-111, 

 126 ; efforts of Catholic priests to secure 

 Ward s Island defeated, i. ill ; passage 

 of war bounty bill, i. 112-115; struggle 

 for the charter of Cornell University, i. 

 123, 299-305, 330-334; orations on the 

 death of Lincoln, i. 124; special session 

 to try an Oneida County judge for 

 &quot;bounty jumping,&quot; i. 128; reception of 

 President Johnson, i. 128-132; Roscoe 

 Conkling nominated for United States 

 senator, i. 134-137 ; defeat of bill to im 

 prove the procedure in criminal cases, 

 i. 137-139 ; defeat of Sodus Canal Bill, i. 

 140 



Senior, Nassau William, records concern 

 ing Napoleon III, i. 95 



Serf system in Russia, i. 455, 470, ii. 7, 27, 

 28, 56, 109; W. s lecture on, first given at 

 Yale, i. 80-82 ; the serf system in France, 

 i. 84, 127 



Sewall, May Wright, her letter to the 

 Peace Conference, ii. 262 



Seward, &quot;William H. ? candidate for the 

 presidency in 1860, i. 86 ; Lincoln s Sec 

 retary of State, i. 87; accompanies 

 President Johnson on his trip North, i. 

 128-132 ; statue of, for Albany, suggested 

 by W., i. 132 ; his unfortunate speech at 

 Auburn, in 1868, i. 150, 151 ; Ezra Cor 

 nell s remark concerning, i. 151; com 

 ments on his published works, i. 151; 

 newspaper attacks on, i. 170 ; his remark 

 concerning diplomatic appointments, ii. 

 357 



Seymour, Horatio, Governor of New York, 

 i. 93 ; hatred of the Lincoln administra 

 tion, i. 105, 151; friendship with W., i. 

 106; on committee which investigated 

 Cornell University, i. 322 



Seymour, Thomas Hart, attitude toward 

 the slavery question, i. 70 ; characteris 

 tics of, i. 72 ; as minister to Russia, in 

 vites W. to St. Petersburg, i. 38, 70, 447 ; 

 his duties as minister, i. 450, 455; his 

 household troubles, i. 461 



Shackford, Charles Chauncey, lectures at 

 Cornell, i. 365 



Sheldon, &quot;Joe,&quot; a professor of &quot;horse 

 sense,&quot; i. 384, 385 



Sheridan, Philip H., his description of the 

 battle of Gravelotte, i. 219 ; on the brav 

 ery of soldiers, i. 220 



Sherman, John, a candidate for the presi 

 dency in 1884, i. 203 ; &quot; best speech &quot; in 

 the Senate, i. 216 ; joke about his fences, 

 i. 218 ; his reference to President John 

 son s impeachment, ii. 133 



Shishkin, his policy in the Behring Sea 

 matter, ii. 32 



&quot; Shoot Burgoyne,&quot; W. s remembrance of 

 childhood sports, i. 8 



Shuvaloff, Count, on the Behring Sea 

 question, ii. 5, 15 



Sibley, Hiram, his faith in Ezra Cornell, 

 i. 320 ; his gift to Sibley College, i. 373 



Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, ii. 545 



Siemering, Rudolph, sculptor, i. 545 



Silliman, Benjamin, professor at Yale, i. 



