List of Philolexian Society members
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The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States. Following is a partial list of Philolexian Society members organized by area of notability.
Architecture and engineering[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Julian Clarence Levi | 1894 | Architect | [1] |
William Barclay Parsons | 1879 | Civil engineer and founder of Parsons Brinckerhoff | [2] |
Business[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Horatio Allen | 1823 | President of Erie Railroad, civil engineer, and inventor | [3][4] |
William Backhouse Astor Sr. | 1811 | Business magnate | [3][4] |
William Backhouse Astor Jr. | 1849 | Businessman, racehorse owner and breeder, and yachtsman | [3][4] |
Douglas Black | 1915 | President of Doubleday and Company | [2][5] |
Stuyvesant Fish | 1871 | Illinois Central Railroad president | [6][7] |
Robert Goelet | 1860 | Businessman and yachtsman | [3][8] |
James Lenox | 1818 | President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, bibliophile, and philanthropist | [3][4] |
Ward Melville | 1909 | Founding president of Thom McAn, Melville Corporation (CVS Health), and philanthropist behind Stony Brook University | [9] |
John Lloyd Stephens | 1822 | Founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company, Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, and author | [10][3] |
John Aikman Stewart | 1840 | Banker | [11][3] |
William R. Travers | 1838 | Businessman and first president of the Saratoga Race Course | [2][3] |
Lawrence Wien | 1925 | Real instate investor and attorney who pioneered real estate syndicates | [2] |
Clergy[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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George Washington Bethune | 1823 | Preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church | [12][3][4] |
Jackson Kemper | 1809 | First missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States | [3][4] |
Thomas Merton | 1938 | Trappist monk, writer, theologian, and poet | [13][14] |
James B. Nies | 1882 | Episcopal minister and Assyriologist | [15] |
Benjamin T. Onderdonk | 1809 | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York | [3][4] |
Henry Onderdonk | 1805 | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania | [10][3][4] |
Marvin Vincent | 1854 | Presbyterian minister and professor | [16][4] |
Education[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Charles Anthon | 1815 | Classical scholar and educator | [3][4] |
William Anthony Aery | 1904 | Professor of social science and director of education at the Hampton Institute, editor of the Southern Workman | [17][18][19] |
Donald Barr | 1941 | Dalton School headmaster | [20] |
Wm. Theodore de Bary | 1941 | East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost | [13][21] |
Jacques Barzun | 1927 | Historian, provost, and University Professor at Columbia University | [22][23][24][8] |
Robert Fulton Cutting | 1871 | President of Cooper Union, financier, and philanthropist | [4] |
Robert Emory | 1831 | President of Dickinson College | [2][3] |
Dixon Ryan Fox | 1911 | Union College president | [25][26] |
Mott T. Greene | 1967 | Historian of science and academic | [27] |
Robert Gutman | Sociologist and a lecturer in social and environmental studies at Princeton University's School of Architecture | [28][29][30] | |
Frank S. Hackett | 1899 | Educator, founder of Riverdale Country Day School, and pioneer in the Country Day School movement | [31] |
Carl Hovde | 1950 | Columbia College Dean | [2] |
James Hall Mason Knox | 1841 | Lafayette College president | [2][3] |
Arthur MacMahon | 1912 | Political scientist and pioneer in the academic study of public administration | [26] |
Robert Marshak | 1936 | City College of New York president | [2] |
Brander Matthews | 1871 | Academic and literary critic | [6][7][4] |
Parker Thomas Moon | 1913 | Political scientist and researcher on international peace | [32] |
Nathaniel F. Moore | 1802 | President of Columbia College | [6][3][33][4] |
Steven Raphael | 1963 | economist, professor of public policy at Goldman School of Public Policy, and adjunct fellow at Public Policy Institute of California | [27] |
Victoria Rosner | 1990 | Dean of NYU Gallatin School and ean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University | [8][34][35] |
Edwin R. A. Seligman | 1878 | Economist and academic | [36] |
William Milligan Sloane | 1868 | Historian, professor at Princeton University, and coach of the first U.S. Olympic team | [4] |
Howard Spodek | 1963 | Professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University | [27] |
Paul van K. Thomson | 1940 | Professor and vice president for academic affairs of Providence College, Catholic priest, and author | [37] |
John Howard Van Amringe | 1860 | Mathematician and the first Dean of Columbia College | [3][4] |
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein | 1962 | Social theorist, psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles | [24] |
Entertainment[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
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Sidney Buchman | 1923 | Film producer and Oscar-winning screenwriter | [2] |
I. A. L. Diamond | 1941 | Oscar-winning screenwriter | [2] |
Bernard M. L. Ernst | 1905 | Magician and associate of Harry Houdini. | [38] |
Orrin Keepnews | 1943 | Grammy-winning record producer | [8] |
William Ludwig | 1932 | Oscar-winning screenwriter and co-founder of the Writers Guild of America | [2] |
Robert C. Schnitzer | 1927 | Actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator | [39][22] |
Ben Stein | 1966 | Actor, comedian, and commentator | [8] |
Garth Stein | 1987 | Academy Award-winning film producer, screenwriter, and novelist | [2] |
John La Touche | 1937 | Lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden Apple | [40] |
Kenneth Webb | 1906 | Film director, screenwriter, and composer | [41] |
Gideon Yago | 2000 | MTV personality | [2] |
Law[edit]
Literature and journalism[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
James Warner Bellah | 1923 | Western writer | [50] |
Elliott V. Bell | 1925 | BusinessWeek publisher, a financial writer for The New York Times, and New York State Superintendent of Banks | [51] |
John Berryman | 1936 | poet, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | [52][53] |
Randolph Bourne | 1912 | Essayist and critic | [2][54] |
McAlister Coleman | 1909 | Journalist, author, and political activist | [55][56] |
David Cort | 1924 | foreign news editor of Life | [57] |
Julien T. Davies | 1866 | Writer | [58] |
Evert Augustus Duyckinck | 1835 | Biographer and publisher | [3][4] |
Jason Epstein | 1949 | Co-founder of The New York Review of Books, co-founder of Library of America, and founder of Anchor Books | [59] |
Edgar Fawcett | 1867 | Novelist and poet | [4] |
William Dudley Foulke | 1869 | Literary critic, journalist, poet, and reformer | [45] |
Allen Ginsberg | 1948 | Poet, author, and winner of the National Book Award | [60][61][8] |
Robert Giroux | 1936 | Publisher, chairman and editor-in-chief of Farrar Straus & Giroux | [62][53] |
Robert Gottlieb | 1952 | Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and editor of The New Yorker | [2] |
Alfred Harcourt | 1904 | Publisher and co-founder of Harcourt Brace; | [2] |
John Hollander | 1950 | Poet | [62] |
Richard Howard | 1951 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator | [63] |
Joyce Kilmer | 1908 | Poet and literary critic | [64][65] |
Gustav Kobbé | 1877 | Music critic and author | [46][4] |
Henry Demarest Lloyd | 1867 | Pioneer muckraking journalist and progressive political activist | [66] |
Jay Michaelson | 1993 | Writer, journalist, professor, rabbi, commentator on CNN, and a columnist for Rolling Stone | [8] |
John L. O'Sullivan | 1831 | Magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny and U.S. Minister to Portugal | [2][3] |
Sam Quinones | 1964 | Journalist and author | [8] |
Ed Rice | 1940 | Author, publisher, photojournalist, and painter | [13] |
Henry Morton Robinson | 1923 | Novelist | [67] |
Garth Stein | 1987 | Novelist and Academy Award-winning film producer | [68] |
George Templeton Strong | 1838 | Diarist | [2][3] |
Ralph de Toledano | 1938 | Editor of Newsweek and the National Review, journalist, author, poet, and novelist | [54] |
Thomas Vinciguerra | 1985 | Journalist, editor, author, and founding editor of The Week | [54][69] |
Walter Wager | 1944 | Novelist | [70] |
Samuel Ward | 1831 | Poet and lobbyist | [71][3][4] |
Medicine, science, and math[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Cornelius Rea Agnew | 1849 | Surgeon and medical director of the New York Volunteer Hospital | [3][4] |
Gavin Arthur | 1924 | Sexologist, astrologer, actor, and magazine publisher | [57] |
Robert N. Butler | 1949 | Pulitzer Prize-winning gerontologist | [72][73] |
James Chapin | 1916 | ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History | [5] |
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs | 1841 | Chemist and president of the National Academy of Sciences | [3][4] |
Emory McClintock | 1859 | actuary | [74] |
Military[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
John Chrystie | 1806 | War of 1812 veteran and namesake of Chrystie Street in Manhattan | [3][4] |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | 1858 | Military theorist, United States naval officer, president of the Naval War College, and historian | [75][3][4] |
Politics[edit]
Sports[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Paul Governali | 1943 | Professional football player and coach | [2] |
William Milligan Sloane | 1868 | coach of the first U.S. Olympic team, historian, and professor at Princeton University | [2][4] |
Miscellaneous[edit]
Name | Class | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Lucien Carr | 1946 | Member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation and convicted murderer | [81][28] |
Elbridge Thomas Gerry | 1857 | Social reformer, founder of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | [82][3][83] |
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