Although Peithologian's alumni included such prominent names as Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of 1882), Nobel laureate Hermann Muller (Class of 1910), and publisher Alfred A. Knopf (Class of 1912), both it and Philolexian suffered declining membership after the turn of the century.
Murray River | Nicholas II of Russia | Saint Nicholas | Nicholas I of Russia | Murray | Butler | Anne Murray | Bill Murray | Andy Murray | Nicholas II | Nicholas I | F. Murray Abraham | Nicholas Nickleby | Gerard Butler | David Murray | Judith Butler | Nicholas Ray | West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio | Samuel Butler | Nicholas Roerich | Nicholas Briggs | Murray Head | Butler Derrick | St. Nicholas | Murray Perahia | John Murray | Butler County | Nicholas of Cusa | Nicholas Longworth | Murray Hill, New Jersey |
Proposed as "South Hall" by the University's former President Nicholas Murray Butler as expansion plans for Low Memorial Library stalled, the new library was funded by Edward Harkness, a Columbia alumnus who was also donor of Yale's residential college system, and designed by his favorite architect, James Gamble Rogers.