New-York tribune., 1902-01-07
BUTLER SUCCEEDS LOW
THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA
MADE ITS PERMANENT HEAD-A
GIFT OF 100000

At the meeting of the board of trustees OF
Columbia University yesterday Nicholas Murray
Butler. the acting president, was chosen to he
president of the university. His selection was
by unanimous vote.
DR.. Butler born in Elizabeth y. j., on
April . 1867. He was graduated from Columbia
in 1852. In 1883 he received the degree Of A NJ,
and a year later honored with the degree
Of Ph. D. He has studied in Berlin and Paris
and in 1895 ne received the degree Of Ii. D.
from Syracuse University. He was assistant
professor in philosophy in Columbia in 1880 and
occupied the chair of philosophy and education
in 1890
He the first president OF the New-YorH
College for Training of Teachers, now known as
Teachers College, and held that office from
I 1871 10 1896. He acted president OF the New
Jersey state Board Of Education from 1SSS to
1890, and was special commissioner from the
State OF New Jersey the Paris Exposition in
1900. AS member of the New-Jersey Board OF
Education Mr. Butler introduced manual train
ing into the school system
He was president Of the National Educational
Association in 1898 and is a life director In that
organization He IS also a trustee of the Wash
ington Memorial Institution, and was director
Of the summer session OF Columbia University
in 1900 and 1901.
He was secretary OF the college entrance ex-
animation board established by the Association
OF Colleges of the Middle States and Maryland.
and had the entire direction of the joint exami-
nations which were held in June in sixty differ
ent cities in this country and Europe at which
nearly one thousand applicants were examined
DR.. Butler is Editor Of The Educational Re
view" and The Teachers Professional Lii
brary." He was selected by the Bureau Of
Education at Washington as Editor Of Mono
graphs on Education in the United States" which
was submitted part Of the educational ex-
hibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900. He re-
ceived special recognition in the form Of gold
medal similar medal being awarded also TO
his publication, The Educational Review"
At the present time Dr. Butler is the pres-
dent OF the Society for the Scientific Study OF
Education. the membership in which Is limited
to professors OF education and he is also presi-
dent of the Association OF American I-ni-
versities, composed Of fourteen universities
especially interested in research. namely Har-
ward, Columbia Clark. Catholic, Yale Johns
Hopkins. Cornell, PENNSYLVANIA. Princeton Chi
cago, Michigan, Wisconsin, California and stan
ford
It was announced by the board OF trustees
that Herbert A. Giles, NJ A. has been desig-
mated to give the first series of lectures on the
Dean Lung foundation. which is the endow-
ment OF a Chinese chair IN literature that has
been made by General Horace W. Carpenter.
Mr.. Giles Is professor of Chinese in the Uni
Vcrsty of Cambridge England He is 1ftv-six
years old, and was educated at Charterhouse
He received the degree OF NJ. a. from the Uni
versity Of Cambridge and the degree of LII. u.
Giles was in the British consular service from
1867 until 1893 His writings on China and the
Chinese are numerous.
The board Of trustees received and accepted
the resignation Of William II. r. Beebe as sec
rctary of the university Frederick +. Keppel
assistant secretary of the university, was chosen
to be secretary.
The board elected DIR. Butler member of
the board of trustees to succeed Frederic r.
Coudert, who resigned on account of i'll health.
An anonymous gift of SlO0,00O was announced.
and il was stated that no disposition Of the gift
had been mad" Announcement made Of
gift Of $1,000 from AdOlph Lewisohn for the pur-
chase of a set of dissertations OF candidates for
Ph. u in the German universities. A gift of
500 was announced from Charles +. Cox TO be
applied to the equipment of the department of
mineralogy gift OF $500 from Frederick A.
Schermerhom was announced for the compile
tion of the Townsend Literature of War
Records
JON Crosby Brown was named to succeed
George l.. RiVes the committee Of finance
benjamin A. Sands to succeed F. A. Schermer-
horn on the committee of buildings and grounds
Edward Mitchell to succeed the Rev. Or. Dix
the committee on honors. Francis S Bangs
to succeed William Barclay Parsons on the com
mittee on education, and Mayor Seth Low to
succeed F. A. Schermerho-n on the committee
library.