Reminiscences of James Gutmann : oral history, 1977.

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Reminiscences of James Gutmann : oral history, 1977.

Early life in New York, N.Y.; Columbia University student, 1914-1918, student and teacher at Ethical Culture Society School; preparing directory of war services, Washington, 1917; teaching philosophy at Columbia, 1920-62; Director, University Seminars, 1970-76; reflections on people and events at Columbia through the Butler, Fackenthal, Eisenhower, Kirk, and Cordier administrations; impressions of Nicholas Murray Butler, Dwight Eisenhower, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Felix Adler, many members of the Columbia faculty.

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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...

Gutmann, James, 1897-1988.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of philosophy, Columbia University. Gutmann was Director of the University Seminars, 1970-1976. (Columbia University A.B., 1918; A.M., 1919; Ph.D., 1936). From the guide to the James Gutman Papers, 1917-1988, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of James Gutmann : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742218 ...

Goldstein, Kenneth K.

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