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    Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University...
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    first proposal to build a new library building was made in 1922 by Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, who suggested...
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    every president was involved in foreign relations in some capacity: Nicholas Murray Butler was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
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    of Morningside Heights. Under the leadership of Low's successor, Nicholas Murray Butler, who served for over four decades, Columbia rapidly became the nation's...
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    Court of Arbitration and a library of international law. In 1925, Nicholas Murray Butler succeeded Elihu Root as president of the Endowment. In December...
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    concealed scurrilous phrase aimed at a well-known person", namely Nicholas Murray Butler. The poem, entitled "An ode for a Phi Beta Kappa affair", was in...
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  • and the Columbia Daily Spectator) were recognized by president Nicholas Murray Butler, leading to his appointment as chief clerk (1906–1910), secretary...
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the...
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  • for the Novel for that year. The Pulitzer Board agreed. However, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University and ex officio head of the Pulitzer...
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    Taft without a running mate less than a week before the election. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, was quickly chosen to replace...
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  • for whom the Montagu Butler Library is named Nicholas Murray Butler, American academic administrator and politician Norman 3X Butler, convicted for the...
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    Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, with 9.45% of the popular vote, the 26th president of the United...
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    even poor students to afford berth there. University President Nicholas Murray Butler, who presided over the hall's opening, noted that "in the interest...
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  • established in 1891 by Nicholas Murray Butler to promote the scientific study of education. It was published by Henry Holt and edited by Butler from 1891 to 1919...
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    1984, 311-2 Michael, Rosenthal, Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...
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  • university president Nicholas Murray Butler "Czar Nicholas" in the pages of the humor magazine Jester in 1917. Ryskind was criticizing Butler for refusing to...
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    1919 at the cessation of World War I. Nobel Peace Prize winners Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, Elihu Root, former secretary...
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    Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. However, Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler implored the committee to reconsider, citing the potential association...
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    after only a few years of operation. In a celebrated letter to Nicholas Murray Butler in June 1932, subsequently printed on the front page of The New...
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  • 1926. He entertained many friends, including Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler, Judge Samuel Seabury among others, on a grand scale in East Hampton...
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    Bergius Otto Heinrich Warburg Erik Axel Karlfeldt Jane Addams; Nicholas Murray Butler 1932 Werner Heisenberg Irving Langmuir Charles Scott Sherrington;...
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    Retrieved October 23, 2016. "Letter from Marcellus Hartley Dodge to Nicholas Murray Butler". beatl.barnard.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on September...
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    president William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Nicholas Murray Butler, Robert Frost, Samuel Seabury, Ida Tarbell, Paul Cravath and the...
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    unsuccessfully tried to form a national anti-prohibitionist Liberal Party. Nicholas Murray Butler proposed the creation of a new party on May 19, 1932, which would...
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    philanthropist Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas M. Butler. Senator Robert M. La Follette from Wisconsin was not formally placed...
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  • concealed scurrilous phrase aimed at a well-known person", namely Nicholas Murray Butler.[citation needed] Put simply, a null cipher is any cipher which...
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  • one of which exceeds $1,000. The school was founded in 1887 by Nicholas Murray Butler as a co-educational experimental and developmental unit of Teachers...
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    nominated Bryan, the two parties had different vice presidential running mates. Butler replaced Sherman, who died before the election was held. W. F. Turner, a...
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    Clarence Mackay, George von Lengerke Meyer, John Grier Hibben, and Nicholas Murray Butler, purchased the château for the French Heroes Lafayette Memorial...
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    which banned alcohol in the United States. He wrote in a letter to Nicholas Murray Butler on June 6, 1932, that neither Rockefeller nor his parents or his...
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