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	Nicholas M. Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.
		Butler distinguished himself as president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945 and as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945.
		Butler was also instrumental in persuading Andrew Carnegie to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with a gift of $10,000,000, where he served as head of international education and communication, founded the European branch of the Endowment headquartered in Paris, and held the presidency of the parent Endowment for twenty years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler (523 words)

	Nicholas Murray Butler - Wikipedia
		Nicholas Murray Butler wurde 1862 in Elizabeth im Bundesstaat New Jersey als Sohn eines Industriellen geboren.
		Von 1907 bis 1912 beteiligte sich Butler an den Vorbereitungen zur Bildung des Internationalen Schiedsgerichtshof in Den Haag 1921.
		Butler wurde Direktor der Stiftungsgesellschaft in Washington D.C. und ab 1925 Präsident derselben.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler (376 words)

	Nicholas Murray Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Butler was educated at Columbia College, which became his intellectual and occupational home for the rest of his life.
		Butler was appointed an assistant in philosophy at Columbia in 1885, becoming professor of philosophy and education in 1890 and president of the university in 1901.
		Butler was a champion of international understanding, helping to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which he was a trustee and later president (1925-45).
	www.nobel-winners.com /Peace/nicholas_murray_butler.html (334 words)

	Nicholas Murray Butler - Biography
		Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, this son of Henry L. Butler, a manufacturer, and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman and author, began his career with a brilliant record as a student.
		In 1882, at the age of twenty, he received his bachelor's degree, in 1883, a master's degree, in 1884, a doctorate - all from Columbia College; in 1885 he studied in Paris and in Berlin where he began a lifelong friendship with Elihu Root, who was also destined to become a Nobel peace laureate.
		Butler moved in the realm of politics as easily as he did in that of education.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1931/butler-bio.html (863 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nicholas Murray Butler (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Nicholas Murray Butler 1862–1947, American educator, president of Columbia Univ. (1902–45), b.
		An advocate of peace through education, Butler helped to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which he was a trustee and later president (1925–45).
		Though a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, he refused to join the Progressive movement of 1912, and that year Butler received the Republican electoral votes for vice president after the death of Vice President James S. Sherman, the regularly nominated candidate.
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		Nicholas II Land Nicholas II Land: see Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.
		Nicholas V Nicholas V, antipope (1328-30); see Rainalducci, Pietro.
		Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, 1802-65, English prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b.
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	Butler, Nicholas Murray
		He was called Nicholas Miraculous Butler by his good friend Theodore Roosevelt; the epithet was so perfect that, once uttered, it could not be forgotten.
		Butler, Root, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt constituted a powerful political quartet in the early years of the century.
		In 1916 Butler failed in his attempt to secure the Republican presidential nomination for Root and in 1920 and 1928 failed to secure it for himself.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Butler/Butler.htm (606 words)

	Nicholas Murray Butler
		A giant of American higher education, Nicholas Murray Butler is one of the great figures in Columbia University's history—and, indeed, of American life in the first half of the twentieth century.
		Butler received his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in philosophy from Columbia and joined the philosophy faculty as an assistant in 1885.
		It was under Butler that the College established the Core Curriculum, and he also oversaw the consolidation of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the first hospital and academic facility to combine teaching, research, and patient care.
	www.c250.columbia.edu /c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/nicholas_butler.html (492 words)

	Nicholas Murray Butler Biography / Biography of Nicholas Murray Butler Biography Biography
		The American educator Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) was president of Columbia University during its period of greatest expansion, in which it acquired an international reputation as a center of research and scholarship.
		Nicholas Murray Butler was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on April 2, 1862, the son of a manufacturer.
		An indefatigable speechmaker, clubman, and fund raiser, Butler strove to expand and deepen the material and intellectual resources of his institution, building it into an international leader in advanced study and research.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-nicholas-murray-butler/index.html (563 words)

	Butler, Nicholas Murray -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		American educator, university administrator, and political activist Nicholas Murray Butler served as president of Columbia University in New York City from 1901 to 1945.
		Butler was a friend of many world leaders and used his...
		The English poet and satirist Samuel Butler is famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318331?tocId=9318331 (655 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American educator Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947), who as the long-serving president of Columbia University was largely responsible for its expansion from a small New York City College into a major university.
		Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Nicholas Murray Butler attended Columbia College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1882, a master's in 1883 and a doctorate in 1884.
		When Butler became almost totally blind in 1945 at the age of 83, he resigned the Columbia presidency and the other demanding posts he still held.
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	Commentary Magazine - Dinner With Butler and Eisenhower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comte, Edward Le Nicholas Murray Butler, who was president of Columbia University from 1901 to 1945, was by far the most dignified person I ever had contact with, the most solid of images of a university president.
		...Butler's wife was Roman Catholic (he, of course, was Episcopalian) and Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a friend whom he recommended to President Coolidge for the United States Supreme Court as "an absolutely ideal judge...
		...Butler's voice was heard from beyond the grave in a letter he wrote to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904: "Nothing injures a University so much as to give the University itself and the public reason to believe that the President looks upon his position as a stepping-stone to political office...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V81I1P58-1.htm (5146 words)

	Nicholas M. Butler biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.
		When Roosevelt ran in the 1912 presidential election as the Progressive Party candidate, Butler became Taft's running mate on the Republican ticket.
		Four years later Butler attempted and failed to secure the Republican presidential nomination for Root.
	nicholas-murray-butler.biography.ms (459 words)

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		Butler was also involved with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, serving as its president from 1925 to 1945.
		Nicholas Murray Butler, as Robert A. McCaughey has stated in his 250th anniversary history Stand Columbia, "was the dominant personality in Columbia University's history in the first half of the twentieth century," serving as President from 1902 until 1945.
		Even though, according to then university archivist Milton Halsey Thomas, Butler spent the last two years of his life directing the selected pruning of his papers for posterity, they still amount to 600 boxes of material and 315 volumes of newspaper clippings.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures/html/110.html (177 words)

	Butler -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is perhaps ironic that the life span of Samuel Butler embraced the whole reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, for he was one of the most incisive critics of the morals, religion, and science of England's Victorian era.
		Established by the Disciples of Christ in 1855 as North Western Christian University, the institution was renamed in 1877 to honor lawyer David Butler, a founder and benefactor.
		One of Ireland's finest writers, William Butler Yeats served a long apprenticeship in the arts before his genius was fully developed.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000618?tocId=9000618 (639 words)

	The Colonel House Report (1919)
		The names mentioned include: Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) (President, Columbia University, 1902-1945, President, CEIP, 1925-1945, etc.), Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1883-1972) (BB/CFR21) (President of the General Education Board, 1936-1948, Undersecretary-General, League of Nations, 1919-1920, etc.), Samuel Gompers, Franklin Lane and W. Wilson.
		I would also like to mention President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, who has eloquently advocated this form of internationalism and carefully emphasize its distinction from the false internationalism which is infecting the proletariat.
		Taft, Nicholas Murray Butler, J. Morgan, Elizabeth Marbury, Adolph Ochs, and Thomas Lamont to the colonial privity council;
	www.biblebelievers.org.au /house.htm (4172 words)

	Awards
		This is the Butler Gold Medal given to Bertrand Russell in 1915 for his contributions to philosophy.
		The inscription on the left-hand side of the medal case says: "Columbia University in the City of New York Butler Gold Medal awarded to Bertrand Russell 1915".
		Nicholas Murray Butler was the same university president who fourteen years later withdrew permission for Russell to lecture at Columbia because of widespread condemnation of Russell's latest book, Marriage and Morals (1929).
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~bertrand/awards.html (588 words)

	Butler - Octavia Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Butler Hospital is the only private, nonprofit adult, adolescent and child psychiatric and substance abuse hospital in Rhode Island.
		Nicholas Murray Butler Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862-December 7, He was called Nicholas Miraculous Butler by his good friend Theodore Roosevelt;
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		Nicholas Murray Butler and the American Peace Movement
		This article follows the activities of Nicholas Murray Butler's involvement in the peace movement at the turn of the century.
		Butler, a college administrator, statesman, Republican politician, and friend of big business, belonged to the peace-through-internationalism approach and believed in working within the domestic system.
	www.tcrecord.org /PrintContent.asp?ContentID=873 (162 words)

	A Faithful Mirror - Standards
		Elite Eastern colleges and universities faced the possibility that the high schools, by de facto, would determine college admission requirements and standards because of the chaos of admissions testing, the growing acceptance of the admission by certificate system, and the student-driven market of higher education.
		Eliot's participation on the National Education Association's Committee of Ten and his association with Nicholas Murray Butler positioned him close to the center of the discussion over the articulation between secondary and higher education.
		Butler's involvement with the National Education Association's Committee on College Entrance Requirements and his workings inside Columbia University helped to foster the idea of a common examination system.
	www.collegeboard.com /faithfulmirror/standards/cbformed.html (358 words)

	Ambition, Arabism, and George Antonius by Martin Kramer
		Yet Butler, perhaps too eager to satisfy so prominent and wealthy a figure as Crane, offered Antonius a visiting professorship for the 1936-37 academic year, in order to allow Columbia to take his measure.
		They were quick to point out to Butler that Antonius already had a reputation among Zionists as an Arab propagandist, and that Crane’s representation of Antonius as “neither Jew nor Arab” widely missed the mark.
		Butler (New York) to Antonius (Jerusalem), 6 October 1936, ICWA Correspondence.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/Ambition.htm (4728 words)

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	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / NEW YORK: Democrats' stronghold rich in Republican history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nicholas Murray Butler, an adviser to Republican presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding, was Columbia's president from 1902 to 1945.
		Butler was also one of four Nobel Peace Prize winners -- all Republicans -- who lived in New York.
		He won in 1931 for his work on behalf of the Briand Kellogg Pact, a treaty that denounced war as an instrument of national policy.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/06/new_york_democrats_stronghold_rich_in_republican_history (490 words)

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