The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-07-05
,as annexed by New Jerseys cover

took a pastorate in Augusta, Ga, ano
soon became one OF the most noteC
ministers of the South. tommy
Wilson. the Augusta schoolboy. is de
scribed bv Prof. John T. Derby, ONT
of his teachers, as quiet and exception
allv studious. The most important IN
structor of young Wilson, however,
was his father.
The Wilson's moved from Augusta
70 Columbia, S. G., in 1870, DR.. wilson
~resjgning his p~astorate to take the
chair of pastoral and evangellstlc the
oloev in the Southern Presbyterian
Theological seminary. At Columbia
Tommy attended Charles Parnwells
private school. At the age OF II he
entered Davidson college az Davidson,
y. G.
He did not finish the year at David
son. for he fell i'll before eXamina-
lions came on and was taken to his
home. now at Wilmington. n. c.,
where his father had taken a pastor
ate. Here Wilson took things COM
paratively easy for 4 year. Except for
tutoring in Greek and a few other
studies that he thought might be nee
essary for entrance to Princeton he
busted himself with reading, looking
up the historic points Of the city and
with the social life of the city.
Woodrow Wilson attained promi-
hence among his mates in the ia
nous class OF 70" of Princeton. No less
than AZ Of the 1872 graduates of 10
were honor men, having an average
! of 80 per cent or better for the four
years course. Wilson barely got in
among them; he ranked forty-first.
Besides being a good student at
Princeton, Wilson became managing
editor of the college paper and was
prominent in undergraduate activi-
ties.
At the age Of % he signalized the
closing of his undergraduate days at
Princeton by breaking into the Inter-
national Review, in its issue of Au-
| gust, 1879, with an article entitled
Cabinet Government in the United
States" The article contrasted Brit
ish and American systems Of govern
ment, pointing out advantages in the
British.
In the fall of 1878 Wilson took up
tie law course at the University of
Virginia, where he INDUCED in a long,
dropping moustache and in member
ship in the glee club. "She Sleeps, My
Lady Sleeps" is shown by Old pro-
grams OF university concerts to have
been one of Wilson's tenor solos.
In May, 1882, he carried his law di-
ploma and an oratorical prize to At
lanta. Ca, where he opened an office
for the practice Of law. The office,
however, did not prosper, and after IS
leisurely months he gave up. The At.
lanta experiment, however, was far
from eventless. Although litigants
gave him nothing to do, he was not
IDLE. He improved his time by secur-
Ing the promise of Miss Ellen Louise
AXson to be his wife. The AXons were
a prominent Georgia lowlands family.
The young couple were married in
1875.
In the fall of 1885 Mr.. Wilson began
teaching political economy to the girls
OF Bryn Mawr. From this institution
he went to Wesleyan university. where
ne remained until called to Princeton
IN 1880 to occupy the chair of jurispru-
dence and politics. In 1902 he was
elected president OF Princeton.
President Wilson made it clear at
the start that conditions at the univer-
SHY were to be changed, and, whether
Tor better or for worse, to be changed
radically. He stated that colleges
needed to he revolutionized. and went
SO lar as to Sag he would endeavor
TO graduate students as unlike their
fathers as possible"
His policies kept him in almost con-
tlnuous conflict with the university
trustees and professors. In fact. the
bltterest controversies in the institu.
TONS history marked his term. vii.
sons friends say it was a conflict he.
tween a Progressive and Democratic
president and the forces of privilege
and ~aristocracy.
In May, 1910, the graduate COLLAGE
OF Princeton university became the
legatee of a 100000 estate. which
could not be accepted without sacri-
hcing Wilson's policies. The money
was accepted. The presidents resis.
nation did no come, however. until
AFTER the New Jersey state Democratic
convention on Sept. Is, 1912. had nom.
mated him for the governorship. In
the following November New Jersey
went Democratic for the first time
since 1892 and elected Wilson bv a
large majority.
The earliest recorded mention NJ
woodrow wilson as a presidential DOS
sicillty is in the form of q letter writ.
ten by some one in INDIANAPOLIS to the
News OF that city at the time of vii.
sons inauguration as president of
rrinceton. This faint boom was re.
vived on Feb. 3. 1906. at the Lotus
cub, New York, where Mr.. Wilson was
the guest OF honor. On that occasion
Col. George Harvey mentioned him as
a possible candidate for the presiden.
tial nomination.
Colonel Harvey's magazine. Harp
ers weekly Tor a time gave ardent
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