Nicholas Murray Butler speeches, 1882-1947

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Series I: Individual Speeches

Series I is arranged chronologically by individual speech. Speeches are listed individually by title in the container list and each speech is housed in its own folder.



Box 1 Folder 1 Manual Training, 1888 July 9-13, 1888


Box 1 Folder 2 Function of the Secondary School, 1890 March 8, 1890


Box 1 Folder 3 Duty of the University to the Teaching Profession, 1890 July 8, 1890


Box 1 Folder 4 Some Phases of Present Educational Problems in Europe, 1894 April, 1894


Box 1 Folder 5 What Knowledge is of Most Worth?, 1895 July 9, 1895


Box 1 Folder 6 Is There a New Education?, 1895 November 29, 1895


Box 1 Folder 7 Democracy and Education, 1895 July 7, 1895


Box 1 Folder 8 The Meaning of Infancy and Education, 1896 November 19, 1896


Box 1 Folder 9 The Scope and Function of Secondary Education, 1898 May 19, 1898


Box 1 Folder 10 Education of Public Opinion, 1899 June 22, 1899


Box 1 Folder 11 Some Criticisms of the Kindergarten, 1899 July 12, 1899


Box 1 Folder 12 Religious Instruction in Education, 1899 October 14, 1899


Box 1 Folder 13 Uniform College Admission Requirements with a Joint Board of Examiners, 1900 January, 1900


Box 1 Folder 14 Status of Education at the Close of the Century, 1900 April, 1900


Box 1 Folder 15 The Quincy Movement, 1900 April 20, 1900


Box 1 Folder 16 Five Evidences of an Education, 1901 June 10, 1901


Box 1 Folder 17 Scholarship and Service, 1902 April 19, 1902


Box 1 Folder 18 Some Fundamental Principles of Education, 1902 June 30, 1902


Box 1 Folder 19 Some Pressing Problems, 1902 July 7, 1902


Box 1 Folder 20 The American College, 1902 November 4, 1902


Box 1 Folder 21 The Length of the Baccalaureate Course and the Preparation for the Professional Schools, 1903 July 7, 1903


Box 1 Folder 22 From King's College to Columbia University, 1904 October 31, 1904


Box 1 Folder 23 The University and Modern Life, 1904 November 15, 1904


Box 1 Folder 24 True and False Democracy, 1907 March 23, 1907


Box 1 Folder 25 Opening Address at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1907 May 22, 1907


Box 1 Folder 26 Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Alexander Hamilton in the City of Paterson, New Jersey, 1907 May 30, 1907


Box 1 Folder 27 Philosophy, 1908 March 4, 1908


Box 1 Folder 28 Business and Politics, 1908 November 18, 1908


Box 1 Folder 29 Standards, 1909 February 1, 1909


Box 1 Folder 30 American-Scandinavian Banquet, 1909 February 15, 1909


Box 1 Folder 31 A New Method of Admission to College, 1909 April 24, 1909


Box 1 Folder 32 Opening Address at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1909 May 19, 1909


Box 1 Folder 33 In Memoriam-Dr. James Hulme Canfield, 1909 July 5, 1909


Box 1 Folder 34 The Call to Citizenship, 1909 July 6, 1909


Box 1 Folder 35 Supplement to the Opening Address at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1910 May 18, 1910


Box 1 Folder 36 Address at Memorial Service in honor of the late King Edward VII, 1910 May 20, 1910


Box 1 Folder 37 University Administration in the United States, 1910 July 14, 1910


Box 1 Folder 38 The Revolt of the Unfit, 1910 December 8, 1910


Box 1 Folder 39 Opening Address at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, 1911 May 24, 1911


Box 1 Folder 40 An Age of Irrationalism, 1911 June 7, 1911


Box 1 Folder 41 Politics and Business, 1911 November 16, 1911


Box 1 Folder 42 Why Should We Change Our Form of Government?, 1911 November 27, 1911



Box 2 Folder 1 Republican State Convention, 1912 April 9-10, 1912


Box 2 Folder 2 The Supreme Issue of 1912, 1912 April 9, 1912


Box 2 Folder 3 The International Mind, 1912 May 15, 1912


Box 2 Folder 4 The Service of the University, 1912 December 16, 1912


Box 2 Folder 5 What is Progress in Politics?, 1912 December 14, 1912


Box 2 Folder 6 Alexander Hamilton, 1913 January 11, 1913


Box 2 Folder 7 Address of Hon. William Howard Taft and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Before the August a Bar Association At Carmichael Park, August a, Georgia, 1913 March 14, 1913


Box 2 Folder 8 The Republican Party in Opposition, 1913 April 26, 1913


Box 2 Folder 9 Address of President Butler at the Opening Exercises, 1914


Of the Academic Year of CU, 1914 September 23, 1914


Box 2 Folder 10 Annual Commemoration Service, 1914 December 6, 1914


Box 2 Folder 11 Republican State Committee Dinner, 1914 December 17, 1914


Box 2 Folder 12 The Preparedness of America, 1914 December 18, 1914


Box 2 Folder 13 The Traffic Club of New York, 1915 February 13, 1915


Box 2 Folder 14 Concerning Some Matters Academic, 1915 February 22, 1915


Box 2 Folder 15 Barnard College: 1889-1914, 1915 April 29, 1915


Box 2 Folder 16 Magna Carta, 1915 June 15, 1915


Box 2 Folder 17 Patriotism, 1915 August 16, 1915


Box 2 Folder 18 The University and Industry, 1915 November 12, 1915


Box 2 Folder 19 The Changed Outlook, 1915 November 18, 1915


Box 2 Folder 20 Higher Preparedness, 1915 November 27, 1915


Box 2 Folder 21 Welcome Address to American Association of Collegiate Registrars, 1916 April 18, 1916


Box 2 Folder 22 Building of the Nation, 1916 April 25, 1916


Box 2 Folder 23 Republican National Convention-Nominating Speech, 1916 June 9, 1916


Box 2 Folder 24 Political Issues of 1916, 1916 July 21, 1916


Box 2 Folder 25 The Republican Party, 1916 July 22, 1916


Box 2 Folder 26 Nationality and Beyond, 1916 August 8, 1916


Box 2 Folder 27 The Present Crisis, 1917 February 6, 1917


Box 2 Folder 28 Is America Drifting?, 1917 February 10, 1917


Box 2 Folder 29 Looking Forward, 1917 April 21, 1917


Box 2 Folder 30 Address at the Convocation of Columbia University, 1917 May 10, 1917


Box 2 Folder 31 A World in Ferment, 1917 June 6, 1917


Box 2 Folder 32 Abstract of Proceedings in Memory of Joseph Hodges Choate An Honorary Member of the Chamber With Address by Nicholas Murray Butler, LL.D. At the Monthly Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, 1917 June 7, 1917


Box 2 Folder 33 Addresses at the Several Receptions in Honor of the Royal Italian War Commission in New York, 1917 June 21-23, 1917



Box 3 Folder 1 Struggle for Democracy, 1917 September 23, 1917


Box 3 Folder 2 Academic Freedom, 1917 October 19, 1917


Box 3 Folder 3 Order, Liberty, Progress, 1917 October 19, 1917


Box 3 Folder 4 Thanksgiving Address, 1917 November 28, 1917


Box 3 Folder 5 A Program of Constructive Progress, 1918 February 16, 1918


Box 3 Folder 6 The Road to Durable Peace, 1918 February 16, 1918


Box 3 Folder 7 The World's Debt to England, 1918 March 5, 1918


Box 3 Folder 8 New York, Commerce and the War, 1918 April 5, 1918


Box 3 Folder 9 Faith and the War, 1918 April 10, 1918


Box 3 Folder 10 Address delivered at the Banquet in the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia before the Delegates to the Win the War for Permanent Peace Convention, 1918 May 17, 1918


Box 3 Folder 11 New Values, 1918 June, 1918


Box 3 Folder 12 The War and After the War, 1918 August 7, 1918


Box 3 Folder 13 An Address at a luncheon given by The Republican Committee at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1918 August 20, 1918


Box 3 Folder 14 At the Annual Meeting of the Association of the Alumni Columbia College Columbia University Club / At the Victory Celebration of the Students' Army Training Corps on South Court, Columbia University, 1918 November 11-12, 1918


Box 3 Folder 15 Education After the War, 1918 November 29, 1918


Box 3 Folder 16 Problems of Peace and After-Peace, 1919 February 11, 1919


Box 3 Folder 17 Is America Worth Saving?, 1919 April 19, 1919


Box 3 Folder 18 The Foundations of Prosperity, 1919 May 16, 1919


Box 3 Folder 19 The Colleges and the Nation, 1919 June 7, 1919


Box 3 Folder 20 The problem of the high cost of living, 1919 August 22, 1919


Box 3 Folder 21 Is The United States Worth Saving?, 1919 September 15, 1919


Box 3 Folder 22 Party Organization and Republican Policy, 1919 September 16, 1919


Box 3 Folder 23 The Real Labor Problem, 1919 October 13, 1919


Box 3 Folder 24 Save America, 1919 October 23, 1919


Box 3 Folder 25 The Republican Party, 1919 November 22, 1919


Box 3 Folder 26 Mental vs. Material Reconstruction, 1919 December 4, 1919


Box 3 Folder 27 New York State Bar Association-Address of Nicholas Murray Butler at the Annual Dinner-Hotel Astor, New York, 1920 January 17, 1920


Box 3 Folder 28 Business and Public Policy, 1920 January 28, 1920


Box 3 Folder 29 William McKinley-and Twenty Years After, 1920 January 29, 1920


Box 3 Folder 30 Abraham Lincoln, 1920 February 12, 1920


Box 3 Folder 31 Inland Waterway Transportation, 1920 February 26, 1920


Box 3 Folder 32 The Republican Party and International Policy, 1920 October 16, 1920


Box 3 Folder 33 Address at the Dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, Borough of Queens, at the Hotel Commodore, 1921 January 19, 1921


Box 3 Folder 34 Rene Viviani, 1921 April 13, 1921


Box 3 Folder 35 The University and the International Mind, 1921 June 25, 1921


Box 3 Folder 36 Some Problems of Business and Government, 1921 October 19, 1921


Box 3 Folder 37 The Closing Door, 1921 October 20, 1921


Box 3 Folder 38 In Honor of Marshal Foch, 1921 November 19, 1921


Box 3 Folder 39 Addresses at the Lotos Club Dinner, 1921 November 24, 1921


Box 3 Folder 40 The Changing Foundations of Government, 1921 December 10, 1921



Box 4 Folder 1 The Republican Party In Power, 1922 April 27, 1922


Box 4 Folder 2 In Defense of Youth, 1922 June 7, 1922


Box 4 Folder 3 Senator LaFollette's Attack on the Supreme Court, 1922 June 16, 1922


Box 4 Folder 4 The Junior College, 1922 June 17, 1922


Box 4 Folder 5 Preliminary Education for Lawyers, 1922 August 11, 1922


Box 4 Folder 6 Kings County Medical Society, 1922 October 7, 1922


Box 4 Folder 7 Toward Higher Ground, 1922 October 17, 1922


Box 4 Folder 8 Law and Lawlessness, 1923 February 24, 1923


Box 4 Folder 9 Induction to Office of President of the Lotos Club at the Lotos Club, 1923 April 14, 1923


Box 4 Folder 10 Some Fundamentals, 1923 April 15, 1923


Box 4 Folder 11 La Mission de l'Université Modern, 1923 July 17, 1923


Box 4 Folder 12 The Development of the International Mind, 1923 July 20, 1923


Box 4 Folder 13 The People's Constitution, 1923 September 17, 1923


Box 4 Folder 14 Can Men Learn?, 1923 September 26, 1923


Box 4 Folder 15 Dinner Tendered to Right Hon. David Lloyd George at Lotos Club, 1923 November 1, 1923


Box 4 Folder 16 Faith of a Liberal, 1923 November 9, 1923


Box 4 Folder 17 Truth and Illusion as to Education, 1923 December 27, 1923


Box 4 Folder 18 To New Made Americans, 1924 January 3, 1924


Box 4 Folder 19 The Political Outlook, 1924 January 17, 1924


Box 4 Folder 20 The Discontent with Democracy, 1924 February 8, 1924


Box 4 Folder 21 Sir Esme William Howard, 1924 April 9, 1924


Box 4 Folder 22 Hope for Political Democracy, 1924 April 27, 1924


Box 4 Folder 23 Prohibition is Now a Moral Issue, 1924 April 29, 1924


Box 4 Folder 24 The Relation of Government to Private Business Enterprise, 1924 May 15, 1924


Box 4 Folder 25 Character Building, 1924 June 4, 1924


Box 4 Folder 26 New American Revolution, 1924 October 13, 1924


Box 4 Folder 27 Courage, 1925 June 3, 1925


Box 4 Folder 28 Allocution, 1925 July 2, 1925


Box 4 Folder 29 Legacy of the Great War, 1925 August 7, 1925


Box 4 Folder 30 Welcome to Joseph Caillaux, 1925 October 2, 1925


Box 4 Folder 31 How the College Entrance Board Came to Be, 1925 November 7, 1925


Box 4 Folder 32 Treaties of Locarno, 1925 December 13, 1925


Box 4 Folder 33 Instruments of Tolerance, 1926 January 20, 1926


Box 4 Folder 34 Andrew W. Mellon, 1926 February 6, 1926


Box 4 Folder 35 A Hundred Years Growth: City and College, 1926 April 10, 1926



Box 5 Folder 1 Appearance and Reality, 1926 June 1, 1926


Box 5 Folder 2 The Declaration of Independence, 1926 July 5, 1926


Box 5 Folder 3 International Congress of Philosophy, 1926 September 13, 1926


Box 5 Folder 4 Three Types of Mind


Box 5 Folder 5 Stand Columbia, Alma Mater


Box 5 Folder 6 The Physician, 1926 December 16, 1926


Box 5 Folder 7 Holiday Luncheon Message, 1926 December 28, 1926


Box 5 Folder 8 Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1926 December 29, 1926


Box 5 Folder 9 Will to Peace, 1927 January 10, 1927


Box 5 Folder 10 Origins of Teachers College and the Horace Mann School, 1927 January 22, 1927


Box 5 Folder 11 Legislation and Social Order, 1927 March 1, 1927


Box 5 Folder 12 New Critics of Democracy, 1927 April 13, 1927


Box 5 Folder 13 What Price Enforcement?, 1927 May 5, 1927


Box 5 Folder 14 Enthusiasm, 1927 June 1, 1927


Box 5 Folder 15 American Editors, 1927 July 26, 1927


Box 5 Folder 16 Path to Peace, 1927 September 4, 1927


Box 5 Folder 17 Education New and Old, 1927 September 28, 1927


Box 5 Folder 18 The Lost Art of Thinking, 1927 October 17, 1927


Box 5 Folder 19 A Constructive American Foreign Policy, 1927 December 3, 1927


Box 5 Folder 20 The Path to Peace: Addresses Delivered Under the Auspices of the Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences of the University of Denver at Denver, Colorado, 1927 December 12, 1927


Box 5 Folder 21 The Problems of the 18th Amendment, 1927 December 14, 1927


Box 5 Folder 22 Politics of Principle, 1928 January 24, 1928


Box 5 Folder 23 Dinner to the Honorable William Thomas Cosgrave President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, 1928 February 2, 1928


Box 5 Folder 24 Banquet by the France-America Society La Fédération de L'Alliance Française and the American Society of the French Legion of Honor to Celebrate the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing at Paris, February 6, 1778 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance Between France and the United States of America, 1928 February 6, February 6, 1778, 1928


Box 5 Folder 25 Good Fellowship and Peace, 1928 February 9, 1928


Box 5 Folder 26 Political Problems and Party Government, 1928 February 22, 1928


Box 5 Folder 27 Campaign of 1928, 1928 March 31, 1928


Box 5 Folder 28 The Outlook for Peace, 1928 May 10, 1928


Box 5 Folder 29 The Lingering Zest to Persecute, 1928 June 5, 1928


Box 5 Folder 30 Quo Vadis?, 1928 July 2, 1928


Box 5 Folder 31 Forces that are Making History, 1928 February 2, 1928


Box 5 Folder 32 The University Habit, 1928 September 16, 1928


Box 5 Folder 33 True Versus False Internationalism, 1928 October, 1928



Box 6 Folder 1 A Program of Peace, 1928 October 1, 1928


Box 6 Folder 2 Seven Pioneers of American Industry, 1928 October 24, 1928


Box 6 Folder 3 The Great Hope, 1928 November 12, 1928


Box 6 Folder 4 Religion and Catholicity, 1929 January 30, 1929


Box 6 Folder 5 Concerning Patriotism, 1929 June 4, 1929


Box 6 Folder 6 The University Tradition, 1929 July 31, 1929


Box 6 Folder 7 The New Center of Gravity, 1929 September 1, 1929


Box 6 Folder 8 Beginning the Academic Year, 1929 September 25, 1929


Box 6 Folder 9 The Changes of a Quarter Century, 1929 October 17, 1929


Box 6 Folder 10 The New Outlook, 1929 October 18, 1929


Box 6 Folder 11 Ave Mater Immortalis, 1929 October 31, 1929


Box 6 Folder 12 Sir Esme Howard, 1930 February 20, 1930


Box 6 Folder 13 Imponderables, 1930 April 30, 1930


Box 6 Folder 14 The Richard Cobden Lecture Nation-Building and Beyond, 1930 May 7, 1930


Box 6 Folder 15 Speeches at a Dinner in Honour of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, 1930 May 15, 1930


Box 6 Folder 16 The Insulated Life, 1930 June 3, 1930


Box 6 Folder 17 Vincent Massey, 1930 June 4, 1930


Box 6 Folder 18 The One and the Many, 1930 August 31, 1930


Box 6 Folder 19 General Meeting American Iron and Steel Institute, 1930 October 24, 1930


Box 6 Folder 20 Dinner in Honor of Captain Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, K.B.E., 1930 December 2, 1930


Box 6 Folder 21 In Honor of Owen D. Young, 1930 December 3, 1930


Box 6 Folder 22 The Right Honorable Earl Beauchamp, K.G., P.C., K.C.M.G., LL.D., 1931 January 8, 1931


Box 6 Folder 23 What Will the American People Do About It?, 1931 January 23, 1931


Box 6 Folder 24 Repeal of the 18th Amendment, 1931 March 17, 1931


Box 6 Folder 25 These United States, 1931 March 23, 1931


Box 6 Folder 26 Business as a University Subject, 1931 April 26, 1931


Box 6 Folder 27 Trenton State Teachers College, 1931 May 9, 1931


Box 6 Folder 28 Freedom, Responsibility & Intelligence, 1931 May 18, 1931


Box 6 Folder 29 Progress and Poverty, 1931 June 2, 1931


Box 6 Folder 30 A Planless World, 1931 June 11, 1931


Box 6 Folder 31 The Search for Security, 1931 June 16, 1931


Box 6 Folder 32 The Republican Form of Government, 1931 June 22, 1931



Box 7 Folder 1 When Philosophers are Rulers…and Rulers are Philosophers, 1931 June 26, 1931


Box 7 Folder 2 This Changing World, 1931 July 29, 1931


Box 7 Folder 3 Unemployment, 1931 September 6, 1931


Box 7 Folder 4 Midgets in the Seats of the Mighty, 1931 September 23, 1931


Box 7 Folder 5 The International Mind, 1931 October 13, 1931


Box 7 Folder 6 Radio's New Opportunity in Education, 1931 October 17, 1931


Box 7 Folder 7 The Work of the President's Organization of Unemployment Relief, 1931 October 25, 1931


Box 7 Folder 8 Brander Matthews: An Appreciation, 1931 November 12, 1931


Box 7 Folder 9 What Should Be the Republican Program in 1932?, 1931 November 17, 1931


Box 7 Folder 10 In Honor of Nicholas Murray Butler Lotus Club, New York, 1932 January 3, 1932


Box 7 Folder 11 Speeches at a Dinner in Honor of His Excellency The Honorable William Duncan Herridge K.C., D.S.O., M.C, 1932 January 11, 1932


Box 7 Folder 12 How Long Must the War Go On?, 1932 January 15, 1932


Box 7 Folder 13 The Public Service of Life Insurance, 1932 January 26, 1932


Box 7 Folder 14 Across the Busy Years, 1932 February 11, 1932


Box 7 Folder 15 The United States Should Lead the Way or Our Times, 1932 April 15, 1932


Box 7 Folder 16 The Present Crisis, 1932 May 19, 1932


Box 7 Folder 17 The Endless Adventure, 1932 June 1, 1932


Box 7 Folder 18 Repeal the 18th Amendment, 1932 June 15, 1932


Box 7 Folder 19 The World Waits on Politics, 1932 June 30, 1932


Box 7 Folder 20 American Public Opinion and International Affairs, 1932 July 6, 1932


Box 7 Folder 21 War Debts and The World Crisis, 1932 July 7, 1932


Box 7 Folder 22 Speeches at the Dinner to Celebrate The Bi-Centenary of the Birth of George Washington, 1932 July 12, 1932


Box 7 Folder 23 Homo Sum, 1932 July 27, 1932



Box 8 Folder 1 Government and Liberty, 1932 September 4, 1932


Box 8 Folder 2 The Political Scene, 1932 September 28, 1932


Box 8 Folder 3 Colossal Debts and Heavy Taxes, 1932 November 16, 1932


Box 8 Folder 4 War Debts, 1932 November 25, 1932


Box 8 Folder 5 A Call to Action, 1933 January 13, 1933


Box 8 Folder 6 The High Cost of Government, 1933 January 21, 1933


Box 8 Folder 7 The Depression, 1933 February 21, 1933


Box 8 Folder 8 Speeches at a Dinner in Honor of His Excellency The Right Honorable James Ramsay MacDonald Prime Minister of Great Britain and First Lord of the Treasury, 1933 April 19, 1933


Box 8 Folder 9 Character, Conduct, Confidence and Credit, 1933


Box 8 Folder 10 Self-Disciplined Liberty or Compulsion, 1933 June 15, 1933


Box 8 Folder 11 Our Ship of State, 1933 September 3, 1933


Box 8 Folder 12 Some Ruling Principles of Good Government, 1933 September 27, 1933


Box 8 Folder 13 From What Are We Trying to Recover?, 1933 October 3, 1933


Box 8 Folder 14 New York City's Financial Problems, 1933 October 14, 1933


Box 8 Folder 15 Two Worlds / The Age in Which We Live, 1933 August 8 and October 16, 1933


Box 8 Folder 16 America and Europe, 1933 October 29, 1933


Box 8 Folder 17 Speeches At a Dinner In Honor of Sir Williams Beveridge L.C.V., Hon. L.L.D. Right Honorable Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland P.C., M.P., L.L.D. Sir Frederick Whyte K.C.S.I., M.A., L.L.D., 1933 November 10, 1933


Box 8 Folder 18 Fifteen Years After, 1933 November 11, 1933


Box 8 Folder 19 The Year 1934, 1934 January 1, 1934


Box 8 Folder 20 Undermining Foundations, 1934 June 5, 1934


Box 8 Folder 21 Speeches at the Dinner Given in Honour of D. Nicholas Murray Butler Held At The Hotel Victoria, London, W.C.2., 1934 July 3, 1934


Box 8 Folder 22 This World Needs Another Alexander Hamilton, 1934 August 7, 1934


Box 8 Folder 23 The Attack on Liberalism, 1934 September 2, 1934


Box 8 Folder 24 The Search for Excellence, 1934 September 26, 1934


Box 8 Folder 25 Speeches at a Dinner in Honor of John Buchan, 1934 December 3, 1934


Box 8 Folder 26 The Family of Nations, 1934 November 11, 1934


Box 8 Folder 27 The Challenge to Education, 1934 October 12, 1934



Box 9 Folder 1 A Message to the People of Japan, 1935 January 1, 1935


Box 9 Folder 2 How Best to Get Rid of the War, 1935 April 2, 1935


Box 9 Folder 3 The Continued Duty of Columbia, 1935 June 4, 1935


Box 9 Folder 4 A Much Needed Prayer, 1935 June 4, 1935


Box 9 Folder 5 Public Confidence Must Be Restored, 1935 June 20, 1935


Box 9 Folder 6 World Peace Today, 1935 August 23, 1935


Box 9 Folder 7 Is Thomas Jefferson the Forgotten Man?, 1935 September 1, 1935


Box 9 Folder 8 The Perpetual Youth Problem, 1935 September 25, 1935


Box 9 Folder 9 Bard College, 1935 October 6, 1935


Box 9 Folder 10 The International Problem, 1935 November 3, 1935


Box 9 Folder 11 Government, Liberty, and the Economic War, 1935 November 9, 1935


Box 9 Folder 12 The Family of Nations, 1935 November 11, 1935


Box 9 Folder 13 Speeches at a Dinner In Honor of His Grace The Most Reverend and Right Honorable William Temple, D.D., LL.D., D.Litt. Archbishop of York, 1936 January 10, 1936


Box 9 Folder 14 On Getting a Good Old-Fashioned Education, 1936 January 12, 1936


Box 9 Folder 15 The School and the Community, 1936 February 12, 1936


Box 9 Folder 16 An Episode of the Endless Adventure at the Lawyers Club, 1936 April 29, 1936


Box 9 Folder 17 Some Fortunate Memories, 1936 November 10, 1936


Box 9 Folder 18 The Decline and Fall of Morals, 1936 June 2, 1936


Box 9 Folder 19 Some Problems for our Government, 1936 September 6, 1936


Box 9 Folder 20 The Endless War, 1936 September 23, 1936


Box 9 Folder 21 Address at the Dinner Commemorating the Dedication of the Statue of Liberty, 1936 October 28, 1936


Box 9 Folder 22 The Family of Nations, 1936 November 11, 1936


Box 9 Folder 23 Across the Busy Years, 1936 December, 1936


Box 9 Folder 24 Address by President Nicholas Murray Butler, 1937 January 5, 1937


Box 9 Folder 25 Sir Herbert Marler, 1937 January 7, 1937


Box 9 Folder 26 Understanding Neighbors, 1937 January 17, 1937


Box 9 Folder 27 The Seventy-fifth Anniversary Dinner, 1937 April 1, 1937


Box 9 Folder 28 Statement for the Associated Press, 1937 April 2, 1937


Box 9 Folder 29 Pan America, 1937 May 11, 1937


Box 9 Folder 30 Address at the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Knickerbocker Hospital at the Hotel Astor, New York, 1937 May 20, 1937


Box 9 Folder 31 De Senectute, 1937 June 1, 1937


Box 9 Folder 32 Democracy Can Be Made to Work, 1937 June 10, 1937


Box 9 Folder 33 Some Problems of the World Federation, 1937 June 14, 1937


Box 9 Folder 34 The Background of the Labor Problem, 1937 September 5, 1937



Box 10 Folder 1 The Paradox of Despotism, 1937 September 22, 1937


Box 10 Folder 2 Family of Nations, 1937 November 11, 1937


Box 10 Folder 3 Elihu Root, 1937 November 12, 1937


Box 10 Folder 4 Motion Picture Comes of Age, 1938 June 14, 1938


Box 10 Folder 5 Columbia University in the City of New York, Work to be Done, 1938 May 6, 1938


Box 10 Folder 6 The Abdication of Democracy, 1938 June 1, 1938


Box 10 Folder 7 The United States Must Lead, 1938 June 14, 1938


Box 10 Folder 8 Democracy in Danger, 1938 September 4, 1938


Box 10 Folder 9 De Juventute, 1938 September 28, 1938


Box 10 Folder 10 Peter Cooper 1791-1883, 1938 November 3, 1938


Box 10 Folder 11 The Family of Nations, 1938 November 11, 1938


Box 10 Folder 12 Talks to Students, 1938 December, 1938


Box 10 Folder 13 Address of Welcome, 1938 December 28, 1938


Box 10 Folder 14 Semi-Centennial Celebration of the American Mathematical Society, 1939 January, 1939


Box 10 Folder 15 The President's Dinner Held At The University Club, 1939 January 20, 1939


Box 10 Folder 16 World Conditions we are Facing, 1939 February 14, 1939


Box 10 Folder 17 The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, 1939 April, 1939


Box 10 Folder 18 Speeches at a Dinner in Honor of The Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay and to Bid Welcome To Vice Admiral Sir Sidney Julius Meyrick Vice Admiral G.F.B. Edward-Collins and the Officers of hit Majesty's Squadrons Visiting New York, 1939 May 23, 1939


Box 10 Folder 19 The Everlasting Conflict, 1939 June 6, 1939


Box 10 Folder 20 Address of Welcome to Their Majesties George IV and Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of their Majesties' visit to Columbia University, 1939 June 10, 1939



Box 11 Folder 1 Education for Democracy, 1939 August 15, 1939


Box 11 Folder 2 Toward a Federal World, 1939 September 3, 1939


Box 11 Folder 3 The World Upon Which Youth Must Look, 1939 September 27, 1939


Box 11 Folder 4 Marquess of Lothian, 1939 October 25, 1939


Box 11 Folder 5 Talks to Students, The Problem of War, 1939 November, 1939


Box 11 Folder 6 The Family of Nations, 1939 November 11, 1939


Box 11 Folder 7 Tribute to the Man Who Gave His Name To Barnard, 1939 November 15, 1939


Box 11 Folder 8 The Bell Is Ringing, 1940 June 4, 1940


Box 11 Folder 9 Our United States in this Backward-Moving World, 1940 September 4, 1940


Box 11 Folder 10 The Joy of Work, 1940 September 25, 1940


Box 11 Folder 11 Columbia University in This World Crisis, 1940 October 3, 1940


Box 11 Folder 12 Address at the Rededication of Earl Hall, 1940 November 28, 1940


Box 11 Folder 13 An Unsolved Problem: The Government of Dependencies, 1940 December 23, 1940


Box 11 Folder 14 New Year's Message, 1941 January 1, 1941


Box 11 Folder 15 Viscount Halifax, 1941 March 25, 1941


Box 11 Folder 16 The World Awaits Another Waterloo, 1941 June 3, 1941


Box 11 Folder 17 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 1941 August 31, 1941


Box 11 Folder 18 Wait and See, 1941 September 24, 1941


Box 11 Folder 19 Address of Welcome, 1941 October 7, 1941


Box 11 Folder 20 New Year's Message, 1942 January 1, 1942


Box 11 Folder 21 There Can Be No Isolation, 1942 March 5, 1942


Box 11 Folder 22 The American Plan to Prevent War, 1942 June 2, 1942


Box 11 Folder 23 There Should Be Two New Parties, 1942 July 26, 1942


Box 11 Folder 24 The Age of the Americas, 1942 September 6, 1942


Box 11 Folder 25 Moral Law is the Only Sovereign, 1942 September 23, 1942


Box 11 Folder 26 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Members of the Pilgrims, 1943 January 27, 1943


Box 11 Folder 27 The Power of Personality, 1943 June 1, 1943


Box 11 Folder 28 What Does Freedom Mean?, 1943 September 5, 1943



Box 12 Folder 1 Again History Repeats Itself, 1943 September 29, 1943


Box 12 Folder 2 New Year's Message, 1944 January 1, 1944


Box 12 Folder 3 Speeches at a Luncheon in Honor of His Grace the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett, D.D., P.C. Archbishop of York and Primate of England, 1944 April 28, 1944


Box 12 Folder 4 The Americas, 1944 May 16, 1944


Box 12 Folder 5 The Responsibility of Youth, 1944 June 6, 1944


Box 12 Folder 6 The Hope of the World, 1944 September 3, 1944


Box 12 Folder 7 Men or Machines?, 1944 September 27, 1944


Box 12 Folder 8 Beginnings of Teachers College, 1944 November 15, 1944


Box 12 Folder 9 Economic War on Democracy, 1945 January 24, 1945


Box 12 Folder 10 Stimulus to American Thought, 1944 June, 1944


Box 12 Folder 11 Another World, 1945 June 5, 1945


Box 12 Folder 12 Industrial Civil War Must End, 1946 January 23, 1946


Box 12 Folder 13 What Will Tomorrow Bring?, 1945 September 26, 1945


Box 12 Folder 14 Annual Meeting of Members of the Pilgrims of the United States, 1947 January 22, 1947