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Nicholas Murray Butler

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  1. Butler Columbia Housing Decision, June 1934 Nicholas Murray Butler and Columbia University. June 1934.
  2. Wiggershaus Columbia Invitation Reconstruction Rolf Wiggershaus. 1995 English edition.
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Columbia 1934 role

Approved the housing proposal and later used official public language placing the Société's transferred work within Columbia's educational system.

Limit

No inspected record shows that Butler transferred Institute governance, funds, staff, or curriculum to Columbia.

Evidence

Research Memo: Columbia's 1934 Housing and Affiliation of the Institute for Social Research. Claim-level source records are linked from the event and task.

Why this person matters

Approved the arrangement that provided the Institute with quarters at Columbia.

Verification boundary

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Verified relationship

approvedHousingForInstitute: Institute for Social Research

Evidence basis

Research Memo: Frankfurt Institute to Columbia