(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, was elected a trustee of Columbia University to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Walker B. James last April, according to an announcement made by the university.
Judge Cardozo was a member of the class of 1889 of Columbia College and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1915, from Yale in 1921, from New York University in 1922 and from the University of Michigan in 1923.
At the trustees’ election President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia said:
“The university welcomes to its governing board in Judge Cardozo one of its most distinguished alumni as well as the university’s most eminent contribution of his generation to the public life of the State and nation.”
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