Holbrook argus., 1912-03-12

It would be hard to find school boy over the age of twelve years who has not heard of the name of Wood row Wilson.
 Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, December 2Sth, 1856. His father was the Rev. Joseph R. Wilson and one of the most in- fluentiai churchmen of the south.
 At the age of two years his father moved to Augusta, Georgia, where he took charge of one of the largest and most influential churches in the south. Augusta was then a city of about 15,O0O inhabitants, and 1t was here that the boyhood of the future governor of New Jersey and presi- dent of Princeton was spent.
 Rev. Wilson moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in the Autumn of 1870 and became a teacher in the Southern Theological Seminary which position be held for four years. Woodrow continued to attend school, but most of his training was under the direct supervision of his father, and in spite of his late years to start at books he soon qualified for college and at seventeen he was sent to Davidson College. North Carolina.
 Princeton Training Valuable.
 In the autumn of 1875 he entered Princeton, where he graduated with the class of 1S79 His going north to college was fortunate. for it gave him at an impressionable age an op- portunity to understand the north ern, as well as the southern, point of view.
 In the autumn of 1885 he was called to the chair of history and po- litical economy in Bryn Mawr Col lege. This he held for three years, when he was called to similar DO sition in Wesleyan University. He remained there two years and was called to his alma mater, Princeton, as professor of jurisprudence and po- litical economy. Later in 1902 he was elected president of Princeton-the second oldest university in tho United States. He took his Ph. D. degree on examination in 1886, sub hitting as his thesis Congressional Government. This is considered the highest degree conferred by institu- tions of learning.
 When Dr. Wilson came to the presidency of Princeton he had been known as g scholar, author and pub- lie speaker, but he was untested as an executive.
 In his presidential office he carried out the idea of leadership which he pronounced in his first book, and has held ever since, in office and cut Of office. He proposed something at Princeton that was a radical change from the old way; it was the con- plete reorganization of the university in such way as to bring into daily communication and companionship representatives of all classes and of the faculty. The proposal was against the tradition of Princeton, for it lent toward breaking up the self-eiectiye clubs. Tt sounded a startling note of democracy and point ed out broad ways by which the youth of the country could be brought hh Abl Ait 1+i NiNS Ol Liit y.
 Young Men Look Up to Him.
 Woodrow Wilson has been an in- spira ion to many young men who have looked up to him as master of his calling-always helpful to oth- CTS, as individuals and as a body pol itic. He copies after no one and fn- l! dividyal thought IS traceable in every | essaF and book that he wrote, but always regardful of the rights of oth- CTS. The reforms he has inaugurated since be has been governor ef New Jersey-prob95ly the worst corpora tion-ridden state in the union-has nut him prominently before the world. All over the country thoughtful men are writing and saying that he will be the Democratic nominee for the presi. dency when the convention coHvenes r next sumner He is by nature auii