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PRESIDENT WHITE'S CANDIDACY.

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In the course of a speech before the Cornell Alumni Banquet in New York last week, President A. D. White stated that : He desired to reply to sundry newspaper criticisms of his course by saying that he had no ambition other than that of building up Cornell University. He had never discussed the subject of his own political promotion with any human being, and to all letters addressed him upon the subject he had replied that he was a candidate for no political promotion. He knew of no nobler or more attractive work than that of advancing the university's interests. He pledged himself to abandon it for no promotion of any sort, political or otherwise.

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