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This board is the outgrowth of an idea advanced some years ago by President Eliot and put into form in 1900 by Mr. Seth Low, then president of Columbia. It was formed for the purpose of providing a set of examinations which may be taken by men from any of the schools represented in the Board and which will admit to any of the colleges belonging to it. Those who wish, however, may take the regular examinations provided by the different colleges. Owing to the fact that the present requirements for by the examinations set by the Board in certain...
...Faculty and students of Williams College, ex-President Timothy Dwight of Yale, Corporation of Simmons College, Faculties of University of California, Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton, Baron and Baroness von dem Bussche of the German Embassy at Washington, Baron Kentaro Kaneko, Mayor Collins of Boston, James Ford Rhodes, Seth...
...city from 1888 to 1890. During the year 1884 to 1885 he was a member of the New York State Forestry Commission. Mr. Shepard is a prominent lawyer and an active Democrat. In the municipal elections in the fall of 1901 he was against and was defeated by Mr. Seth Low h. '90, for the mayoralty of New York City. He is a director in numerous railways and other corporations and is the author of two books. "The Memoirs of Dugdale," and "Martin Van Buren," in the American Statesmen Series...
Professor Nicholas Murray Butler has been elected president of Columbia University to succeed President Seth Low. Professor Butler graduated from Columbia in 1882, and has held several chairs in that university...
...Shakespeare's Works; Basil Lanneau Gildereleeve, professor of Greek in Johns Hopkins University; John Shaw Billings, director of the New York Public Library; Samu-1 Pierp nt Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Henry Codman Potter, bishop of New York; Melville-Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States; Seth Low, for many years president of Columbia University; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many years editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine; William Dean Howells, formerly editor of the Atlantic Monthly, author of the "Rise of Silas Lapham" and other works; George Harri, president...