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...Nicholas Murray Butler...
President Nicholas Murray Butler has been president of Columbia University since 1902. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and a scholar, as his long list of honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed...
...presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented it to Professor Norton. Professor Norton bequeathed it to the Library, with the request that it be inscribed as a memorial of two lovers of Chaucer, Francis James Child and James Russell Lowell...
...Caffin; "Renaissance of the English Drama," by Henry Arthur Jones; "Shamrock Land," by Plummer F. Jones; "Charles Dickens," by Frederic G. Kitton; "A History of Spanish Literature," by James Fitz-Maurice Kelly; "The Spanish People," by Martin A. S. Hume; "The Rise of the Greek Epic," by Gilbert Murray; "The American College," by Abraham Flexner; "Justice and Liberty," by G. L. Dickinson; "The Wooing of Calvert Parks," by L. E. Richards; "The Man From Home," by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson, Ph.D...
Pole-vault--Won by J. A. King; R. Murray and L. C. Torrey tied for second. Torrey won jump-off. Height...