The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-20
COMING OF DR. WILSON
PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON TO BE
 HERE FRIDAY.
He Will Speak at Girls High School on "The University and the Nation'
 --Puhlfe fs Invited.

The visit of pr. Woodrow Wilson | President of Princeton University, to
 Montgomery Friday is an event which
 has excited great interest. especially
 among educators.
 Dr. Wilson will speak at the Girls
 High School Friday evening at s:i5
 o'clock, his subject being the .Univer-
 been issued to the entertainment by a local committee of former Princeton students. The invitations are signed w. Jackson. Hugh Nelson. B. E. Smith. R. T. Simpson and Frank P. Glass. When the address is concluded an in- formal reception will be held during which D-. Wilson will be introduced to Montgomery citizens.
 While some formal invitations have been issued. the public generally Is in- vited to attend the entertainment. pr. Wilson is one of the foremost ed- | ucators of the country. He is South ern man. having been born in Staunton, Va. and reared in Augusta, Ga. dresses M % ons in % Marion tonight and the the other in Montgomerv tomorrow night. He will leave Montgomery Saturday morning returning directly to Prince ton.
 "The visit of President Woodrow Wilson. of Princeton University to Ala bama. recalls the occasion when the an nouncement of his election was first made known to the students of the uni versity." remarked one who was pres ent at the time. to a Birmingham News reported. Tt was class day. in June, were just completing their exercises around the historic cannon in the mid dle of the campus. No rumors of the impending change in the faculty had been current. Toward the close of the last song. about sunset. the president of the class was informed by messenger of the sensation which had just taken place. Ills announcement was receiv- oA rxrffb hn A moments later. the entire class marched to Prospect. the home of the retiring president. and called for pr. Patton.
 was famiiiarly called by the students, appeared in the doorway. clad in a dressing gown and peering over his spectacles. The seniors gathered closer. and with uncovered heads listened to the words of the famous man. In q few short sentences. clear and pointed, as his utterances always were, though min- gled with an emotion his cold nature was rarely known to show. he express
 "The reaction from this saddening scene came when the class had left the new president. He was not there. Cou- riers were sent all over town in an effort to find the newly elected head or the university, but he could never he found. Either he had left the little vil- lage or he was purposelV avoiding any public celebration of his election. By the same senior class he had just been voted the most popular professor at the university. Of course. the reorganiza- tion was the sole topic of conversation, Universal expression crystallized into the sentence: Patton Is the best Presi- dent we ever had. If he must go. would rather have Woodrow Wilson than any other man..
 HDr, Patton soon after was elected head of the Princeton Theological Sem inary His resignation from the Uni versity was attributed solely to his in creasing III health. especially his eve sight, which was daily growing. dim mer President Wilson has already es- tablished himself in the hearts of Princeton students. Strength Is his characteristic"