• Thumbnail for Nicholas Murray Butler
    Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University...
    39 KB (3,539 words) - 17:37, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Butler Library
    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...
    17 KB (1,656 words) - 15:53, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia University
    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...
    228 KB (19,679 words) - 20:07, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for President of Columbia University
    every president was involved in foreign relations in some capacity: Nicholas Murray Butler was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
    18 KB (1,084 words) - 05:31, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1912 United States presidential election
    Taft without a running mate less than a week before the election. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, was quickly chosen to replace...
    105 KB (7,078 words) - 20:45, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    Court of Arbitration and a library of international law. In 1925, Nicholas Murray Butler succeeded Elihu Root as president of the Endowment. In December...
    36 KB (3,556 words) - 02:06, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acrostic
    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...
    35 KB (4,413 words) - 03:54, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    For Whom the Bell Tolls, the president of Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, persuaded the board to reverse its judgment because he deemed the...
    50 KB (2,157 words) - 00:37, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1912 United States presidential election in Texas
    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...
    6 KB (198 words) - 14:15, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1912 Republican National Convention
    election, and was replaced as Republican vice-presidential nominee by Nicholas Murray Butler of New York. The ticket went on to place 3rd in the November election...
    20 KB (1,311 words) - 02:05, 29 July 2024