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BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862 )

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 885 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862 ) , American educator, was born at Elizabeth, New
Jersey
 , on the 2nd of April 1862. He graduated at Columbia College in 1882, was a graduate fellow in philosophy there from 1882 to 1884, when he took the degree of Ph. D., and then studied for a year in Paris and Berlin. He was an assistant in philosophy at Columbia in 1885-1886, tutor in 18861889, adjunct professor of philosophy, ethics and psychology in 1889189o, becoming full professor in 1890, and dean of the faculty of philosophy in 18901902. From 1887 until 1891 he was the first president of -the New
York
  college for the training of teachers (later the Teachers' College of Columbia University), which he had personally planned and organized. In 1891 he founded and afterwards edited the Educational
Review
 , an influential educational magazine. He soon came to be looked upon as one of the foremost authorities on educational matters in America, and in 1894 was elected president of the National Educational Association. He was also a member of the New
Jersey
  state board of education from 1887 to 1895, and was president of the Paterson (N.J.) board of education in 18921893. In 1901 he succeeded Seth Low as president of Columbia University. Besides editing several
series
  of books, including " The
Great
  Educators " and " The Teachers' Professional Library," he published The Meaning of Education (1898), a collection of essays; and two
series
  of addresses, True and False Democracy (1907), and The American as he is (1908).


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