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...Institute of France elected Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The vote was given "in recognition both of President Butler's intellectual leadership in America and of his friendship for France as expressed during and since the World War." The only other American member is Woodrow Wilson. Theodore Roosevelt also enjoyed the honor. It is the seat left vacant by the death of Viscount Bryce, which Dr. Butler now takes...
...acting department the new men are R. L. Morehouse '24, P. R. Hepburn '25 and Edouardo Sanchez '26. The business department received the addition of E. A. Sawin '25, F. R. Hart Jr. '27 and T. T. Woodward '27. Murray Pease '26 was elected to the art department. Bradley Fisk '26, G. A. Millikan '27 and A. O. Ludwig '26 were elected to the electrical department. The stage division took on P. W. Parsons '25, H. S. Smith '25 and R. G. Rosegrant '26. In music the only addition was H. S. Francis...
Assembled at Detroit, the Amateur Athletic Union of the U. S. re-elected William C. Prout of Boston as President. Election was unanimous after Verne Lacey of St. Louis and Murray Hulbert (Acting Mayor of New York City) withdrew from the lists...
Last week he was formally inaugurated. The speech of the occasion, delivered by Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, contained the following passages...
...treat her Dominions. Referring to the problem of reforming the House of Lords under Mr. Asquith's Government, he said that Dr. Butler was called in to inform the Cabinet upon the workings of the U. S. Senate. " There was no greater constitutional authority than Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, and we invited him to attend a Cabinet meeting. I think he is the first stranger to have ever attended a meeting of a British Cabinet. I never use the word foreigner when I am talking about America. He gave us a full account of the powers of your Senate...