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Nicholas Murray Butler

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nicholas Murray Butler 1862-1947, American educator, president of Columbia Univ. (1902-45), b. Elizabeth, N.J., grad. Columbia (B.A., 1882; Ph.D., 1884). Holding a Columbia fellowship, he studied at Paris and Berlin, specializing in philosophy. Beginning in 1885 he was made successively assistant, tutor, and adjunct professor of philosophy at Columbia. He became (1886) president of the Industrial Education Association, reshaped it into what is today Teachers College, Columbia, and was (1889-91) the institution's first president. He was intimately associated with John W. Burgess in the... Read more
Nicholas Murray Butler
Encyclopedia of World Biography Nicholas Murray Butler The American educator Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) was president of Columbia ... center of research and scholarship. Nicholas Murray Butler was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on ... Read more
Butler, Nicholas Murray 1862-1947
American Decades BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY 1862-1947 President of columbia university Accomplishments Nicholas Murray Butler was instrumental in remaking Columbia ... in staff, students, and facilities. Butler founded the Teachers College as a ... Read more

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