The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-03
i If Nominee for Presi-
4 IN the Democratic
la Largely Devoted
TO Letters.
h As EDUCATOR
\ PRINCETON HEAD
Governor of New
IN 1910; Long Re-
1ed as White House
Possibility.

WOODROW WILSON was
!, at Staunton. Va, Deccm-
{, S. 1856. He is the son
4 Dr.. Joseph R. Wilson, a
q, minister, and the grand
-asp James Wilson an Irish
crt,b descent, VINO migrated
,r Down to Philadelphia IN
- Wilson prospered and be-
',,ssr Of the Aurora. a lead
xatc journal, Philadelphia
! he national capital.
Il Steubenville, O., that Jo-
~; Wilson. the father of
wilson, was born on Febru-
lN9. He was the scholar OF
Elpn's family. Jefferson col
s.ied him as valedictorian in
! which he taught school and
lar the Presbyterian minis
tie Western Theological semi
Princeton seminary. In
rh r, Wilson married Janet
dsuehter of DR.. Thomas
4 famous Presbyterian min
lx day, who was a descendant
al English stock, The Rev.
a became the father Of two
tsfore he was called as pas
esuntop, Va, where a third
ee, was born and christened
Fpodrow.
lbanas Woodrow was 2 years
tasr took a pastorate in An
md soon became ono Of the
"a ministers of the south.
y equipped as a theologian,
HI orator OF power, he early
I'd long maintained a posi-
exh influence in his church.
D dvil war broke out he en-
confederate cause.
rally Studious.
~ Wilson. the Augusta
d described by Professor
tfby, one Of his teachers, as
e1csptionally studious. The
vtsnt instructor of young
NEVER, was his father g. man
htormatiou on the affairs of
His father believed that
" grasped thought until
;dt it quickly and definitely
This he did himself, and
1aeht his son to do.
aoa moved from Augusta to
. G., III 1870, DR.. Wilson
is pestorate to take the
, laToral and evangelistic the
tss Southern Presbyterian
y seminary. At Columbia
ttsnded Charles Parnwell IS
sseol. At the ago Of II he
nncson college at Davidson,
ant finish the year at David
: = fell i'll before examinations
4 snd was taken to his home,
.llmington, n. c., where his
= taken a pastorate.
g man left Wilmington one
~ptSember, 1875, TO enter
college. About this time he
I . christian name Thomas and
I osn as Woodrow Wilson.
aE Wilson attained promi.
lE ms mates in the "famous
s.' No less than - of the
a a9es OF 10 were Hhonor
y Sing an average Of 80 pei
N ESer for the four years
Y rls9n barely got in among
fanked forty-frst.
4 age Of % he signalized the
nlS undergraduate days al
uy breaking into the Inter
! s'sieW, in its issue of August
: sn article entitled "Cabi
r IN nnnent in the United States
z 's contrasted British anc
systems of government
!; ,i w. rnvantages in the British
I'M OF 1879 Wilson took II,
,0Stse at the University o
n "aese he INDUCED in long
4 lsa lsa~taehe, and in membership
Il cub, "Shc Sleeps, NJ
H is shown by old pro
! y university concerts I
i; Jse 1esoo Of Wilson's tenor solos
aooa. he carried his law di
~ az osatorica. prize to Al
z neere he opened an offic
S,csIllce Of law. The office
not prosper, and afte
ie'y months he gave W
h 1875.
an'a SaaS experiment.. boweve
N eventlcss. Although lit
Ea in nothing to do. he VIZ
ns Improved his time bv q.
Ssomise of Miss Louise A,
klaIt - cmite, The Axsons wei
a eorrIoieia loTlands famil
M fpil w were married in 1877
pcS,;as 1858 Mr., Wilson bepa
Naws. economy to the Gir
~ d W., From this Institute
" iaAd nssyan ustsyyan university, whe,
o.n Until called to Princetc
soS SS'soPy sPy. the chair of iuri
n >sesiddp politics. In 1902 he ",
nt Wat WI,t OF Princeton.
tbs"s "snSon made it clear
pS Nsra SI conditions at the M
" irr MO 10 be changed, an
Deter or for worse, to
dsd siy He stated that C
. {as ~ DC revolutionized, a,
IN q g,s % TO say he would q
kerss rss'aunate students as unli,
<|Isiss. as possible, ="
n eonsIIk Kept him in almost co
ma dct with the univorsi
. cont t,pssoieSsors. In fact. I
"A ,tSrvsfoversies in the instit
Y Euds IN; marked his term. W
s psosy say il was a conflict !
aggressive and dnmocro'
n btracvt The forces OF priviie
lslO, the Graduate Collie