The Guardian: Heart, smarts and pragmatism: why health minister Mark Butler is suddenly a contender as a future PM
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the late James S. Sherman's replacement as William Howard Taft's running mate in the 1912 United States presidential election. The New York Times printed his Christmas greeting…
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politics · American philosopher, diplomat, and educator (1862–1947) · philosopher · politician · university teacher · diplomat · teacher · writer · pedagogue · pacifist · opinion journalist · also Nicholas Murray Butler, Nicholas M. Butler, Nicholas Butler, Butler
Born 2 April 1862 · Died 7 December 1947 · Q271517
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
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1947· 2 entries
Died 1947-12-07.
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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
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1945· 1 entry
Butler became almost completely blind in 1945 at age 83.
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1941· 1 entry
The Pulitzer Prize fiction jury selected Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1940· 1 entry
Butler completed his autobiography with the publication of the second volume of Across the Busy Years
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1939· 1 entry
A former student of Butler, Rolfe Humphries, published in the pages of Poetry an effort titled "Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion" that followed a classical format of unrhymed blank verse in iambic pentameter with
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1937).
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Was admitted as an honorary member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati
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1936· 1 entry
Butler permanently expelled student Robert Burke— class president of the class of 1938—for leading an anti-Nazi mock book burning protest on campus after Butler accepted an invitation to a celebration at Heidelberg Unive
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1931· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1931).
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“men of far greater intelligence, far stronger character, and far more courage than the system of elections.”
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1921).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy (1921).
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1920).
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1919· 1 entry
Butler amended the admissions process to Columbia in order to limit the number of Jewish students; it became the first American institution of higher learning to establish a quota on the number of Jews admitted
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1903· 1 entry
And he married again in 1907 to Kate La Montagne, granddaughter of New York property developer Thomas E
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1901· 1 entry
Butler became acting president of Columbia University and, in 1902, formally became president
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1887· 1 entry
Co-founded with Grace Hoadley Dodge, and became president of, the New York School for the Training of Teachers, which later affiliated with Columbia University and was renamed Teachers College, Columbia University, an
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1885· 1 entry
Butler studied in Paris and Berlin and became a lifelong friend of future Secretary of State Elihu Root
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1882· 1 entry
His master's degree in 1883, and his doctorate in 1884
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-04-02.
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