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NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS See also:MURRAY See also: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 . 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 . D., and then studied for a See also:year in See also:Paris and See also:Berlin . 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 . 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 . In 1891 he founded and afterwards edited the Educational See also:Review, an influential educational See also:magazine . 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 . 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 . In 1901 he succeeded See also:Seth See also:Low as president of Columbia University . 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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