07.02.2013 Views

James McKeen Cattell, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Academic ...

James McKeen Cattell, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Academic ...

James McKeen Cattell, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Academic ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

114 SOKAL<br />

of the Colleges <strong>and</strong> Universities,” New-York Tribune, 28 April 1900, p. 4; Columbia<br />

University, Bulletin of Information, 1900–1901, pp. 68–73.<br />

45. See Rosenthal, <strong>Nicholas</strong> Miraculous.<br />

46. John Micklethwait <strong>and</strong> Adrian Wooldridge, The Company, as excerpted in The<br />

Times (of London), 29 August 2003, p. 27. See also Thomas Mallon, “An Empty Robe,”<br />

review of Rosenthal, <strong>Nicholas</strong> Miraculous, inNew York Times Book Review, 22 January<br />

2006, p. 15.<br />

47. As an anonymous reviewer clarified events, Taft’s initial vice-presidential<br />

running mate died two weeks before the 1912 election <strong>and</strong> – even though Taft lost the<br />

election to Woodrow Wilson – Republican party leaders appointed <strong>Butler</strong> to complete the<br />

ticket so their “electors could have a full ticket to support.”<br />

48. In private, <strong>Cattell</strong> apparently often referred to <strong>Butler</strong> as “an old mossback<br />

Republican.” See <strong>James</strong> Gutman Oral History Interview, Columbia University Oral<br />

History Research Office, New York.<br />

49. William F. Buckley, Jr., Saving the Queen (paperback ed.; New York: Warner<br />

Books, 1976), pp. 216.<br />

50. NMB to FJEW, 24 October 1905, JMC to NMB, 20 May 1905, 9 November<br />

1905, NMB to JMC, 23 May 1905, JMC papers, LoC; FJEW to NMB, 3 November 1905,<br />

8 December 1905, 11 December 1905, FJEW papers, CUA.<br />

51. NMB to JMC, 27 November 1906, 27 February 1907, JMC to NMB, 13<br />

February 1907, 26 February 1907, JMC, “Memor<strong>and</strong>um for Members of the Faculty of<br />

Columbia College,” 12 April 1907, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

52. JMC to NMB, 6 January 1907, 13 January 1908, NMB to JMC, 7 January 1907,<br />

JMC papers, CUA; Thorndike to NMB, 18 February 1907, Thorndike papers, CUA.<br />

53. JMC to NMB, 31 October 1905, JMC papers, LoC; JMC to NMB, 15 May<br />

1909, NMB to JMC, 17 May 1909, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

54. JMC to Low, 3 November 1900, Low to JMC, 23 November 1900, JMC papers,<br />

LoC; JMC to NMB, 8 January 1909, 4 January 1910, NMB to JMC, 5 January 1910, 10<br />

January 1910; JMC, “Memor<strong>and</strong>um Concerning the Salaries of Assistant Professors, 26<br />

January 1910, “Second Memor<strong>and</strong>um Concerning the Salaries of Assistant Professors,”<br />

24 February 1910, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

55. JMC to NMB, 10 February 1909, NMB to JMC, 27 February 1909, JMC papers,<br />

CUA.<br />

56. JMC to NMB, 4 November 1905, 7 April 1906, 2 March 1907, NMB to JMC,<br />

10 April 1906, 27 February 1907, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

57. See Frederick P. Keppel, Columbia (New York: Oxford University Press,<br />

1914), pp. 152–154.<br />

58. For example, A. P. Wills to JMC, 31 January 1909, John Dewey to JMC, 25<br />

February 1909, Richard Gottlieb to JMC, 8 March 1909, Harry Thurston Peck to NMB,<br />

undated [1909], Calvin Thomas to JMC, 27 January 1910, Samuel T. Dutton to JMC, 28<br />

January 1910, Thorndike to JMC, 31 January 1910, JMC papers, LoC.<br />

59. See Walter F. Miles Diary, 18 July 1951, Archives of the History of American<br />

Psychology, University of Akron, Akron, OH.<br />

60. JMC to ERAS, 8 March 1917, JMC papers, CUA. Cf. C. P. Snow, The Affair<br />

(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960), p. 122.<br />

61. JMC to NMB, 2 February 1907, NMB to JMC, 4 March 1907, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

62. NMB to JMC, 15 April 1907, JMC papers, CUA<br />

63. JMC to NMB, 8 January 1909, JMC papers, CUA.<br />

64. NMB to Low, 29 March 1909, <strong>Cattell</strong> papers, CUA.<br />

65. JMC, “Memor<strong>and</strong>um Concerning Our Scientific Departments,” 25 May 1910,<br />

JMC papers, CUA.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!