Frederick Beygrau scrapbook, 1908-1948 [Bulk Dates: 1908-1913]

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Frederick Beygrau scrapbook, 1908-1948 [Bulk Dates: 1908-1913]

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Scrapbook of Frederick Beygrau, Director of the Stenography and Typewriting Department at Columbia University's Teachers College.

.5 linear ft. (1 document box)

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347619

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Beygrau, Frederick.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frederick Beygrau was born in London in 1873. Beygrau received his early education in London, and then attended the Commercial High School in Chemnitz, Germany. In 1909 Beygrau was installed as a professor of stenography at Teachers College, the first professor of stenography in any American University. He left his position at Columbia in 1913, but continued to teach stenography at high scools in NYC and Westchester. Throughout his career he also taught...