Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge
Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1867 - 1940) was a professor of philosophy. He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1892, and served as the dean of the Columbia faculties of political science, philosophy, and pure science, from 1912 to 1929.
Woodbridge Hall, and a chair in the Philosophy Department, are named after him.
Anecdote
While strolling through the Columbia campus with a student one day, Woodbridge suddenly remarked: "The Cathedral of Chartres was built by the spirit of the Virgin; the University of Virginia was built by the vision of Thomas Jefferson; Columbia was built by... McKim, Mead, and White."[1]
External links
- Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge biography
- Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene in the Columbia Encyclopedia
- Works on F. J. E. Woodbridge
