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