was the case, naturally, with his speecl epting his non at Hopkins—particularly in that Woodrow Wilson, tion for the Presidency That be wrote out to riginal researches he acknowledged bis particular Before he 3d been graduated, s mportant magaziae obligations It was the peculiarity of the Johns Hopkins’ had accepted a» rtiele ritten by hin This was a discus workers that they were after facts: they were willing to f the relat erits of the ngressional svstem ur spend infinite pains to get facts: they were far less con er gove ent is ducted, and the other parlia cerned about the theory of A thing than they were anxious me SVE gue elsewhere nder whieh to find out how it .actpally worked in practice Wilson's the Cabinet is responsible to the Legislature, and must stand chief job was to get at the real facts as to how the legis ! ROCOY g is progra : pecepted rejected in ative department of the United States government sctually I ehute the floor f the national ass \ In worked—mnot what the theory of it was or was supposed to this art e. the v i neeton student made the first a be, but how, as a matter of facet it did work Early in rate analvsis and fea ntior f the way n which Cor 1885, Wilson completed that job He bad made a book, gress has me actually t nduet its business, namely and now it was published: ‘Congressional Government: A 1 gh « tee wh pract v n secret he Stody of Government by Committee.” It was the first ae point of the article is the assert t he nation’s busi nt ever given of the way Americans actually do govern "ARS ght t be done in pul ought be threshed out themselves, n put scussion t was thirty-three vears ago, but here [he book met with instant success It was immediately was a student erving t that secrecy was the atmosphere in recognized as a final, standard piece of work. To-day, 27 which all corruption and evil flourished: that Congress ought vears later, it remains unsuperseded egislate at every stage as if in the presence of the whole A TEACHER AT BRYN. MAWR BAP Put ' pul ty at every point—there was the That summer, Woodrow Wilson married, at Savannah, Miss RY safeguard 1 ¢ people's Tights and the try's best pen Louise Axson, daughter of a line of Georgia clergymen. pp He had been called to a chair in a new school for women, After graduation at Pripceton, Woodrow Wilson went to gp. Mawr College, and for three years taught history and the 1 isi f Virginia, that great institution of liberal je 0) aconomy there. The mext two years he spent as pro- 3 5 ganized homas Jeffersor Here he spent fessor of the same subjects at Wesleyan University—a non A oar sindying The w department under the singuarly arian college, in spite of its name—at Middletown, Conn ble guidance of D hn B. Minor At Charlottesvilie aiso During these vears, too, he acted as a lecturer on the Johns Wils was acknowledged leader among his ss Mates Hopkins faculty, While at Middletown, Mr. Wilson published He ‘ e glee clut 4 8 Active In & ts: he organ a second book, “The State,” d splaying a simply prodigious debating society; he walke ff with the Writer's Prize knowledge of the history and principles of governments from 1 The Irator's Prize His remarkable personal popuianty, the times down to the latest waver. " i so much t s gifts, as t ’ the chair of jurisprudence and polities at Prince anionability, his unselfishness and his | for fur ne ton falling vacant, the Trustees very naturally elected to it RK fellow was a great ker, a composer Of nonsense heir old graduate who had so quickly ade himself a fore verse and limericks and was always ready for a bit of sky most reputation as a student of politics wking. Indeed, at every one of the colleges which Wood nber, 1880, found Woodrow Wilson again domiciled rv W ende the most persistent memory of his so ollegiate town which, fifteen vears before, he e of f Everywhe he seems ‘round upon with the eves of a student from ! LYE t « ‘ his 1 was now a man whose renown had begun to 5 e worked har toring s mind spread in the world, an author, a public speaker of enviable - th every fact he get } H { bearing n the sci « ‘ 14 t he ‘ iof a Ia ¥ a figure of 4 eration ’ ry ’ “ . a se of study ai ni VOrY ’ students. al ' ene Iv hee th fe ’ . A o . mt . . a oh W i” mn s.r Ty b Professor \ vere Turthe rked vy the great Treeqom i : & u " : e delivers elf of his views o1 rent events, at , r of 48 os the twelve years, 1890 1 2 Mr. Wilson con wait for ent : 3 ’ : ‘ri ton the ¢ 4 1 urs hat never LITE Atlanta Tas . ® jraf ence {1 a ™ wer relive YORrs ff = vith swvers whom the tizens knew and to whom they pleasant | r: vears of growth nd of growing vere related both in the University and in the country I'be lack of profess: usiness was not the cause of In 1902 Woodrow Wilson was elected President of Prince v particular grief unior member of Remick & 0 1p icarsity Wis He was 1 ! | ethir i The "had come for a change: the old college faced idea of which his Inter stional Review new conditions and realized that it needed a new leader, It waa growing bigger his n y had one already in its faculty, and, quite naturally and pied in expanding the ant a simply, it put the direction of affair ially into his hands Atlanta. the fa ties f histor ] Henceforth, Doctor Wilson was to or its most bril- to fill out his work, and, realizing tha liant orator, its most s writer; he was to be its admin } bent the direct and immediate sub je strator., : ’ . that the pa » a political career tar The college prospered from the day of hus AGLUTation. | ng and te Ww n resolved 1 t Studs multiplied; bequests and donat ons increased ; great 1 g the legal proless and to go W buildings went up; a period of unprecedented material success that { be learn f the science of politics was ushered in, Ro, it e autu f 1883 a new student mat But the new President was not satisfied with material sue- Hopkins 1 ersit and entere VOrk cess. He set himself from the start, to lift the tone and scholar. al i p i al ¢ non nder tion « the ls ship f the school—or, as he ked to put at, 49 give the 3. Adams and Dr. Richard 1 . students more for their four years, to help them to be strong 1t would be in sihle t ribe the two vears Wilson or men and better citizens : th ' bors at . t Hopkins, but it his University is remarkable for the degree to which how mp W-1 ws 4 1 Po erate ihe mportance Jubs flourish a nong its two upper classes Membership » Raul abe S4un’Y im : aractes He was ass sought after eagerly from the day of entrance All through ol 1 : ) ¢ . ove ne f whon the freshmen and sophomore Years, every man IS anXiousiy ate w A ail R . ¢ rien] to be one of the fortunate ones admitted to a club. : 8 Al Naver hafors becomes a Junior, he learns his fate. More than ' bol : A ia the United States” such 0 Some of these leave college A ere be nae ; ames on made up his min the system was ough-going study of t POs ips en endian an 4 destructive of evervthing that an American Bryce 4 4 ' ol sg Ads ty id AS vealt to stand for and uleate. Yet he did not writing y ie hii k of ha % r To) he came, in 1907, with a proposal to substi nad 4 4 4 | hy ¥ ‘ YY
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