The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-04-28
DISADVANTAGE OF
COLLEGE COURSE
woodrow Wilson Declares Abraham
Lincoln Would Not Have Been
As Valuable il He Had Been
Educated.

PlTTSBURG.- Special.-Dr Wood
row Wilson, professor in Princeton
University twenty years and It's Presi-
dent eighteen years. said SUNDAY ntpht
that Abraham Lincoln would nS, LEU nS
DSen as SerViceable to his conn, = ~ -
n pa1 oeSSh college bred as he was with
wilson agrees with the statement OF
koOert Louis Stevenson, q eraa,,ate Of
one man made by COLLEGE a tbonsanOd5
are sPolled, 10 say nothing of the dec
saI "a non OF Richard T. Crane. Chicago's
d dTtr Hl 1 muItlmillionaire, that An
dFsw carnegie had wasted millions in
gus TO colleges. and that the money
OF Carnegie, Armour and others was
such education" 4O
-. President Wilson was speaking at
the PRINCETON alumni dinner Tbe two
hundred present applauded him when
ne ne pesah, ana when he ended, but did
is regarded as an indirect Wav OF t exs
pressing disapproval of his sentiments
Ut. wilson depicted the future which
ne oeIeVes is Immediately before this
country and urged the Princeton
alumni to render themselves and their
institution democratic and particinate
In the work of regeneration which he
6eciaT JARED must be performed. In part
"Serve the PeopIe."
low does the nation judge Prince
Ton! Inc Institution is intended for the
the requirments of the country that II
VIII pc measured. 1 trust / NAV be
h1 uStht among the last to blame the
that they-at least the PTotes+sn{t
o nttrGthhes-are serving the classes and
h have me neor masses Sse. OF the people. They
III men mem souls They are depressing
me me leVei OF Christian endeavor. It is
look for the support of the wealth.
ana neglect our opportunities to serve
We people II Is for this reason the
State university is held in ponuiar s s6e
PIoTiai while the privately supported
ms inS' u'lon TO which we belong is com
esteem. ioss Oh
ceIeWhrhaiiie attending a recent Lincoln
CeIeP5atlon i asked myself if Lincoln
would have been as servicea BILE to The
people or this country had he been a
ffo 70 man. and was obliged to say
processes to which the college men arc
SUBJECTED to do not render him service
fbis 70 70 me country as a whole. 1t is for
rlIIs reason that have dedicated every
ton. liz 'eseheIa-
colleges Must he Reconstructed.
co me, Inc american college must become
"a g. Iated IN the same sympathies as
NE common people. The COLLEGES OF
ths country must be constructed from
people win tolerate nothing wbicb ean
WIS or eXclusiveness. They are busy
b etl tneIf moral regeneration, ana
70 accomplish il. Their polfticaI
parties are going to pieces, and only
soy1 - tSSLS VINO seem able TO promise
10 etnluS OF a moral advance are able
20 secure a following. The people are
11rSu OF pretense, and I ask you as
on. ""e'' - sums
IF she loses her self-possession.
Athinerlea VIII stagger like France,
enIOugn nelds Of blood, before she
again nnds peace and prosperity under
b She leadership Of men who understand
Or. Wilson's experience has not been
SSoniheu 10 Princeton. He was a stu
gent there, then at the University of
Virginia and was graduated from Johns
1Ta1oPklhs. He was professor at Bryn
MaWr and at Wesleyan, MiddletoWn,
conn Ion before going to Princeton. He
short time practiced law in Atlantis