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Milton Rugoff

Columbia College, Class of 1933

Vital

Full name
Milton Rugoff

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 1933 (Columbia College)

Works (2)

  1. 1981 The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century · New York: Harper & Row, 1981
  2. 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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