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Nicholas Miraculous: the redoubtable Dr. Butler of Columbia University
2006, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
- 1st ed.
0374299943 9780374299941
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the sage
Flying the Union Jack
"An indubitable genius"
A university is born
Educator
Twelfth president
"Great personalities make great universities"
An old shoe
Teddy Roosevelt and a horse called Nicoletta
"Dear Tessie"
Mr. Butler's asylum
At home
and away
"Pick Nick for a picnic in November"
"Kid" Butler, the Columbia Catamount, vs. "Wild Bill" Borah, the Boise Bearcat
"Jastrow is, I am sorry to say, a Hebrew"
Path to peace
Perils of bolshevism, promises of fascism
The fund raiser
"Morningside's miracle"
Resignation, retirements, and death
Epilogue : the disappearance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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