See also:NICHOLAS See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
BUTLER (1862– )
, See also:American educator, was See also:born at See also:Elizabeth, New See also:Jersey, on the 2nd of See also:April 1862
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He graduated at See also:Columbia See also:College in 1882, was a See also:graduate See also:fellow in See also:philosophy there from 1882 to 1884, when he took the degree of Ph
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D., and then studied for a See also:year in See also:Paris and See also:Berlin
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He was an assistant in philosophy at Columbia in 1885-1886, See also:tutor in 1886–1889, See also:adjunct See also:professor of philosophy, See also:ethics and See also:psychology in 1889–189o, becoming full professor in 1890, and See also:dean of the See also:faculty of philosophy in 1890–1902
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From 1887 until 1891 he was the first See also:president of -the New See also:York college for the training of teachers (later the Teachers' College of Columbia University), which he had personally planned and organized
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In 1891 he founded and afterwards edited the Educational See also:Review, an influential educational See also:magazine
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He soon came to be looked upon as one of the foremost authorities on educational matters in See also:America, and in 1894 was elected president of the See also:National Educational Association
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He was also a member of the New Jersey See also:state See also:board of See also:education from 1887 to 1895, and was president of the See also:Paterson (N.J.) board of education in 1892–1893
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In 1901 he succeeded See also:Seth See also:Low as president of Columbia University
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Besides editing several See also:series of books, including " The See also: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 See also:Democracy (1907), and The American as he is (1908)
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