The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Milton Rugoff
Vital
- Full name
- Milton Rugoff
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1933 (Columbia College)
Works (2)
- 1981 The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century · New York: Harper & Row, 1981
- 1989 America's Gilded Age · New York: Henry Holt, 1989
Primary sources
The Columbia Daily Spectator
1933-05-19 Defend Philo Against Charge Of 'Prejudice' Robinson, Setteducati Assail de Guzman for 'Little-Girlishness' and 'Kittenish Action' in His Withdrawal [ARTICLE] commented on de Guzman's statement
Defend Philo Against Charge Of 'Prejudice' Robinson, Setteducati Assail de Guzman for 'Little-Girlishness' and 'Kittenish Action' in His Withdrawal Defending Philolexian against charges of "prejudice" and "bias" leveled at the literary society by Daniel de Guzman '33 on Wednesday, Leonard Robinson '35 and William Setteducati '33, president and former president respectively, yesterday accused de Guzman of "little-.girlishness" and "kittenish action." De Guzman's attack on the Society's policies had accompanied his withdrawal as a protest against the "black-balling" of two candidates for admission. Assail de Guzman Robinson and Setteducati declared in a statement yesterday that the resignation of de Guzman was an example of the attitude that "has kept the society in disrepute." He represented, they claimed, "that particular kind of toxin which the Society has been subsisting on for…
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The Columbian 1931, Philolexian Society
THE UNDERGRADUATES · Confidence: CERTAIN
PHILOS, AS RECALLED BY MR. & MRS. WALTER SCHAAP AND CHARLES ROBERTSON
name written then struck through; note below reads '(CALLED MILTON RUGOFF '33; SENT INFO.)' · Confidence: CERTAIN
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