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BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTLER, See also:NICHOLAS See also:MURRAY (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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