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William Dudley Foulke

Columbia College, Class of 1869

Literary critic; civil-service reformer.

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Literary critic; civil-service reformer

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Full name
William Dudley Foulke

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 1869 (Columbia College)

Works (36)

  1. 1887 Slav or Saxon: A Study of the Growth and Tendencies of Russian Civilization · G. P. Putnam’s Sons
  2. 1890 Civil Service Reform: Its Later Aspects · Society for Political Education, New York
  3. 1895 Biography and Correspondence of Arthur Middleton Reeves · Henry Frowde
  4. 1895 The Finding of Wineland the Good: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America (Reeves, ed.) · Editorial
  5. 1898 Life of Oliver P. Morton, Including His Important Speeches · The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis
  6. 1900 Maya: A Story of Yucatan · Novel of the Spanish Conquest era
  7. 1901 Superannuation in the Civil Service · National Civil-Service Reform League
  8. 1903 Protean Papers · G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York/London
  9. 1906 History of the Langobards (Paulus Diaconus, trans.) · Translation
  10. 1910 The Quaker Boy: A Tale of the Outgoing Generation as Chronicled in the Autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham · Novel
  11. 1911 Dorothy Day · Novel
  12. 1911 Maya: A Drama · The Cosmopolitan Press
  13. 1912 An Interstate Trade Commission · Journal of Political Economy
  14. 1912 Effective municipal government. A study of the city of frankfort‐on‐the‐main · National Municipal Review
  15. 1912 Expert city management · National Municipal Review
  16. 1912 Masterpieces of the Masters of Fiction · The Cosmopolitan Press, New York
  17. 1914 The Mission of the National Municipal League · National Municipal League
  18. 1915 Evolution in city charter making · National Municipal Review
  19. 1915 Some Love Songs of Petrarch (trans.) · Translation
  20. 1916 Coming of age: Municipal progress in twenty‐one years · National Municipal Review
  21. 1916 Lyrics of War and Peace · Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis
  22. 1918 Removals of civil service employes · National Municipal Review
  23. 1919 Fighting the Spoilsmen: Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement · Memoir of the civil-service-reform movement
  24. 1920 To-day and Yesterday: Sonnets and Other Verses · Collected verse
  25. 1922 A Hoosier Autobiography · Oxford University Press, New York
  26. 1923 Is Our Civilization Really Declining? · Kautz Stationery Co., Indianapolis
  27. 1923 Spoils system still an active factor · National Municipal Review
  28. 1924 “Prohibition inside out” · National Municipal Review
  29. 1925 A Random Record of Travel During Fifty Years · Oxford University Press
  30. 1925 Roosevelt and the Spoilsmen · National Civil Service Reform League, New York
  31. 1928 Songs of Eventide; Heloise; Maya · Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis
  32. 1929 The national civil service reform league: History, activities and problems. By Frank Mann Stewart, Ph.D. Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1999. 303 pp · National Municipal Review
  33. 1930 Earth's Generations Pass · Oxford University Press
  34. 1869 City government by experts under the competitive systems
  35. 1869 Hon. William Dudley Foulke on equal rights
  36. 1869 The theory and the practice of civil service reform

Primary sources

The Columbia Daily Spectator

1902-02-07 Philo Centennial. [ARTICLE] selected as orator; Advisory Committee member
Philo Centennial. A meeting of the Philolexian Centennial Celebration Committee was held Tuesday evening in the Library. Notes were read from the members of the Advisory Committee, and the date for holding the meeting was decided ;>n. Following the custom sanctioned by the constitution of the society adopted in 1820, the 17th of May was chosen. The celebration will consist of a reunion meeting and a dinner. The committee followed the advice of Mr. John B. Pine and President Butler in selecting Mr. William Dudley Foulke, Civil Service Commissioner at Washington, is the orator at the meeting. Mr. Pine will be asked to preside at this meeting, while Dean Van Amringe will be urged to act as toastmaster it the dinner. A history of the society is being written by E. A. Cardozo, Jr., and will be ready by the time of the celebration. To secure facts about the history of the society the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1902-02-07 →

1913-01-14 JOURNALISM SOCIETY MEETS Fourth Year Men Bid Farwell to Departing Member at the Initial Gathering of "The Staff." [ARTICLE]
JOURNALISM SOCIETY MEETS Fourth Year Men Bid Farwell to Departing Member at the Initial Gathering of "The Staff." To inaugurate "The Staff," the fourthyear club of the School of Journalism, and to bid farewell to one of its members who is called back to China, the Class of igi3 of the new School met last night in the Faculty Club. Hollington K. Tong, who came to CCKluinbia from the University of Missouri, has been compelled to return to his home in Shanghai. Dr. Williams, the Director of the School, closed the last speech of the evening with warm references to Tong's brilliant work, particularly in the reporting course, and the club gave him the first Columbia cheer which the graduates of nearly a dozen colleges had . attempted. V - • Dinner was followed by* an-illuminat-ing discussion of the management of a newspaper by William Dudley Foulke, '69, '7iL, formerly president of the…

Columbia Daily Spectator, 1913-01-14 →

The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912)

The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) Leaf / page ?

Named in The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) at the referenced leaf.

The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) Leaf / page 43

Named in The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) at the referenced leaf.

Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902)

Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) Leaf / page 5

Named in Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) at the referenced leaf.

Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) Leaf / page 5

Named in Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) at the referenced leaf.

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916)

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 135

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 538

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

The Foundation's research archive

Philolexian Annals 1912, Roll of Members

William Dudley Foulke · Confidence: CERTAIN

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