Reminiscences of James Gutmann, 1977

Biographical Note

Educator

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Education, Higher.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Goldstein, Kenneth K., interviewer.
• Gutmann, James, 1897-1988--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Philosophers--Interviews.
• Philosophy.
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984