The Detroit times., 1912-01-23
SECRET ATTACKS ON
WILSON EXPLAINED
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other clubs, and the fateful day OF
election or ostracism was one OF min
l ged trfumphs and bitternesses. The
| alumni or the club aristocracy oppos-
ed with might and main President
Wilson's program, and the meeting OF
the trustees in October saw II broken
and cast out
Wilson's Idea Democratic.
II was then that K. 3. Seymour. a
trustee who had been sent TO reason
with Woodrow Wilson and alter his
1 IJopinions, returned with the report that
the president had diagnosed what he
conceived TO be a National and not
merely a local collegiate disease. Mr..
Seymour saidi
He felt that In this country at the
present time there was too strong a
tendency 20 glorify money merely, that
with the increasing wealth OF the coun-
try this tendency would be accentuat-
ed. In short. no feared that We would
rapidly drift into plutocracy. To meet
this condition he felt that the correct
cratic lines should be given TO our
boys In our institutions OF higher
learning. At Princeton. whittier come
many sons OF millionaires. he felt wo
Meas OF democracy and personal worth
that when they became. in the ordi-
nary course OF nature masters OF their
fathers fortunes. they should not use
their undoubted power as to help. not
hurt the Commonwealth.
Then followed the Proctor dispute.
Mrs. Josephine A. Thompson Swami,
by her will in the beginning Of 1907,
placed the sum OF S260,000 at the
disposal OF the trustees for the
Princeton Graduate College. Prof
Andrew r. West, Deec of the grad
nate school had In 1903 written a
prospectus OF this residential col
. lege, to which President Wilson con-
tributed a foreword. saying that the
college was designed 10 be placed In
the midst of our campus" and seat
ed at the heart OF Princeton" He
compIimented Prof. West for having
"got at the gist OF the matter, the
real means by which group OF
kladuate students are most apt to
stimulate and get the pace for the
whole university" When. seven
years later, following the Swami be-
? quest, the half-million- dollar gift OF
Mr.. Proctor was announced. 1t be-
came definitely known that Prof.
pathizers with President Wilson said
that Dean West proposed an exclu-
sive college club, cloistered and lux
urious. not by any means placed In
the midst OF our campus" but set
upon the golf links remote from the
university life. and separated not
only from undergraduate associa-
tions, but from the graduate college
d. -, olr dU n
campus.
President Wilson opposed the plan
as soon as he learned that SIR. Proctor
conditioned his gift upon the carrying
out OF ideals which, he declared, would
extend to the sphere OF the graduate
life the same artificial and unsound
social standards that already domin-
ated the life OF the undergraduates.
Ii would discourage serious graduate
students from coming to Princeton, he
said II would make the realization
OF sober ideals OF sound scholarship
more difficult than ever. His ideals
; were those OF genuine democracy and
serious scholarship. The two, indeed.
seemed to him to go together, and any
organization which would introduce
elefnents OF social exclusiveness con-
stituted the worst possible soil for
serious intellectual endeavor. The
new college, in his eyes, was planned
10 be the seat OF special privilege.
The Faculty Committee on the Grad
nate School supported the president
ia report made Jan. 10, 1910, which
declared:
We cannot have great graduate
school without great graduate
faculty, and we cannot have great
-, ntn1n
here are OF such a character as to at
tract strong men. And we cannot
attract strong men by adherence to
dilletante ideals.
A minority dissent to this opinion
was recorded by Dean West and Prof.
John Grier Hibben, who only a week
ago was elected to the presidency OF
Princeton. This opinion pointed to
The fine record in scholarship made
by the students at Merwick'-the
lucleus OF the new Graduate College
Of Liberal Arts. The presidential
graduate college. the minority report
fran. should not be placed on any
part OF the campus In close proximi-
w 10 undergraduate comings and go
:ngs, but should be sufficiently remov-
cd TO make certain the development
OF a distinguished graduate tone by
our graduate students In their com
munity OF intellectual interests" But,
of course, undergraduates might come
as visitors and "be welcome guests OF
graduate students" AS the numbers
in residence increased, Dean West
and Prof. Hibben contended, the cost
per student would be lowered, and
uoor students might be admitted to
the Graduate College.
The Gentlemen" Couldn't Mix.
Then the storm broke afresh. and
with a gain of violence. The trustees
we're divided geographically, the West
ern and Southern members siding
with Wilson, the Eastern members