AUTOGRAPH: Card SIGNED by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, identified in type as from Columbia University.

New York, December 29, 1932., 1932. Very good. - A 3 inch high by 5 inch wide card upon which is typed "Columbia University / New York / December 29, 1932" signed in ink by the University's president Nicholas Murray Butler. There is offsetting to the bottom edge of the card with tape remnants along the right edge and also on the verso. Very good. Nicholas Murray Butler [1862-1947] was an educator, an advisor to seven presidents, a prolific author and the recipient of numerous international decorations and honorary degrees. He was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. His good friend Theodore Roosevelt called him "Nicholas Miraculous Butler". Four years after joining the staff of Columbia's Philosophy Department in 1885 Butler gave administrative form to his philosophical theory of pedagogy by founding an institute, later affiliated with Columbia, which became known as Teachers College. He was named acting president of Columbia University in 1901 and president in 1902, a post he held until his retirement in October 1945. Columbia grew phenomenally under his presidency and became a major university.…