Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06

known today; Mahlon Pitney is a Jus
tice of the United States supreme
court; DR.. A. S. Halsey Is secretary
of the Presbyterian board of foreign
missions; besides there are Robert
Bridges, an editor of Scribner's Maya
zine - Charles A. Talcott, Robert H
McCarter once attorney general of New
Jersey; Edward w. Sheldon, president
of the United States Trust Company;
Colonel Edwin A. Stevens and Judge
Robert r. Henderson. of Maryland.
Practiced' Law Here.
Immediately after his graduation he
went to the law school of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, where he remained I'M
til about January /, 1881, when illness
compelled him to go to his home at
Wilmington, n. c. He was admitted
to the bar in 1882, and went to Atlanta
where he entered into partnership with
Edward Ireland Renick. He occupied
his time While waiting for clients, who
did not come in great numbers, with
beginning Congressional Government"
the success of which later decided him
against the active practice Of the law.
In fact, all idea of the law was given
up, and he resolved to go to Johns Hop
kins university for a post graduate
course in the science of government.
At the home of his cousin, Jessie
Woodrow Bones, at Rome. in 1888, he
had met Miss Ellen Louise Arson, the
daughter of the Rev. S. Edward Arson
and granddaughter of another clergy
man of an old Georgia family. Young
Wilson soon after started for Balti-
more while Miss Arson came to New
York to study art.
wilson's book was published in 1885
! and was a success. 1t attracted much
attention to the young writer. and
James Bryce in mis- monumental Amer
lean Commonwealth" acknowledged his
brought to the author calls to chairs
in several colleges, a degree or two
and finally Woodrow Wilson became
associate professor of history and po-
litical economy at Bryn Mawr.
Married in Savannah.
The young author and Miss Arson
were married at Savannah, June "a.
1885, and went to live at Bryn Mawr.
The following year he added to his
work by lecturing at Johns Hopkins,
and in 1888 he became professor Of his
tory and political economy at Wesley
an university, Middletown, Conn. Two
wears later ne was elected to the chair
of Jurisprudence and politics at Prince
ton. and in 1902 was chosen as presi-
dent of the institution as successor to
Francis Landey Patton who resigned
The eight years of Wilson's career as
president of Princeton were eventful in
that he showed his independence OF
thought and his initiative in going aft
er at once some of the most sacred Of
college traditions and practices He
announced his belief in a democracy OF
college life; he announced his adher-
ence to the theory that college was
for the development of a man, az
man: he inclined to the elective or Sc
lective principle for students and for
broad mental training according to the
needs Of the particular student rather
than along a hard and fast line i'm
posed or laid down by the faculty.
A Southern White House.
March of 1914 will see a charming
mother and three equally charming
healthy minded daughters installed In
the white house Clever talented, each
with some vocation in life. fond OF en-
tertaining and of entertainments. with
out being absorbed in society, they will
add another four years Of rational hos
pitality to that which will have ended
then There will be nothing superse-
rious in all this. it may be said There
will be plenty of good humor plenty Of
fun and those who will have the privi-
lege Of attending a white house recep-
tion will have to FURNISH up their wits
if they would keep up with the party.
Mrs. Wilson. the mother, a Southern
oman, whose only regret now is that
her native state of Georgia should have
cast it's ballots so persistently against
her husband, passed her youth partly In
that state She is an artist and her
friends say that she would have made
great name for herself as a portrait
painter II she had not married the
young college professor at Bryn Mawr.
Mrs. Wilson was a student at the Art
Students league in New York after she
became engaged to Woodrow Wilson,
who had given up law at Atlanta to
go to Johns Hopkins to specialize on
the subject that has made him presi-
dent. Mrs. Wilson gave up painting
after her marriage.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson was
born 26 years ago, while Mrs. Wilson
was visiting relatives at Gainesville,
Ga; Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson made
her appearance year later. when Mrs.
Wilson was again at Gainesville Miss
Eleanor Randolph Wilson had her first
birthday % years ago at Middletown.
Conn, when Woodrow Wilson was a
professor at Wesleyan university.