The Washington herald., 1912-11-06
lears 81 Pfepsrstioa "a Is tssideqcy
and Democratic SIT bsveloped Ealiiy.
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!:ss yssx 70, e he saak sf attins hinss'l
ne dsvote1 IN his susssy aaA svsgy
faculty hs posseased 70 ths fxnishlnG
and TIE training q his mind 70 the ~
thAt hs nioA4 = IN a1thssiky - ~.
eguDont and the hlBtoFy of govornmonl
and - . laaAsr in he AEairs ee hi
No man sver subSsctsd himssaf 10 sesrn-
er discipline o. worked more stsadfastly
toward Q med goal. He 1rst taught
himself to write shosfhand IA order that
read and heard. He also pgaOticed com
position assiduously and extemporanooua
speaking that he u,iGht be akflled and
ready In o6-hand debatet
In those days he was not rslnarlrably
ready In extemporaneouo speaking. To-
dAy he 10 without . pear In the nation
tn the art There have been very few
mon IN public life Who have AaFsd %
trust themseives 70 deliver important
out. but to get Nr. Wilson 10 writs .
speech IN advance - dinlcult.
During the hrst year At Princeton.
Wilson Joined "Whig Hail." the literary
debating society founded by James n.
Addison. Its rival society at Princeton
was clio Hail." and the annual Lynde
debate. an extemporaneous discussion Of
. subject given to the dehators 'tsW
minutes before the debate was to begin.
vas the bisHest thing In . literary way
ct the college. Young Wilson very soon
establishsd himself as the leading spirit
OF the "whig HAIR society. and vas
easily III best DICTATOR. To win this ,an-
nual deoa4e. In which three reprsssnta-
tives from each Of the two halls partici-
pated. was the thing that Wilson coveted
most. Each hall selected IL dshatofs by
. preliminary contest within its own 50
ciety.
An Advocate Of Free Trade.
On the evening Of the preliminary con-
test the subject was Protection W..
Free Trade" Tho debaters took sides by
lot. Wilson drew . 'rProtection'' slip
his seat. He said nothing under heaven
could induce him to advance argument
for Q thing in which he, did not believe.
and the Lynde prise went to some one
else.
Wilson did not shine greatly In his
regular college course. standing forty
flrst In . class OF IL. This was the ia
nous class Of -. which included Mahlon
C. Pitney. Of the Supreme Court Bench.
About this time his natural aptitude
for leadership began to crop out. and
before his first year was over he was
universally recognised at Princeton ~
the leading freshman and one Of the
master spirits Of the entire student body.
He later became managing editor OF the
'.Princetonian." and when he graduated
his classmates looked to him to rise
higher than any OF them.
While At Princeton he wrote . search
Ing article on consress.. which 1t once
stamped him as Q youth Of extr9ordi-
nary caliber. This article was published
In the International Review and in It the
young Princetonian pointed out that most
Of the legislative business 0f the nation
was carried on by smaM committees BE-
hind closed doors. This was the nrst
time the matter had ever been brought
home to ths people Of the country. and
II started them to thinking.
lions business ought to be done In the
open. ought to be thrashed out in public
discussion. Even at that early day he
lifted up his voice against secrecy. He
declared that was the atmosphere In
which evil and corruption fiourished. and
that the only remedy was publicity.
After leaving Princeton Woodrow Wil-
son went to the University Of Virginia,
that great institution Of liberal learning
founded by Thomas Jefferson. He spent
q year there studying In the law DEPART
ment under the able guidance Of DR..
John B. Minor.
Love for LiDaeF1elks.
At the University Of Virginia Wilson
was also . leader. He took . moro ac-
tive interest in sports. Joined the giee
club, and organized . debating society.
and easily won both the writer's and the
orators prizes. Here also he acquired
the reputation Of being q great Joker.
He composed nonsense rhymes and nm-
ericks with wonderful facility. And to
this day he In fond Of witty limerick.
For example, the whole country will
recall his famous limerick he recited to
the Newspaper reporters at Sea 0irt after
his nomination at Baltimore:
A. beauty IN not star.
rhers sss othen nore hsndsoas b. far.
But my fsce. don't mind 1t,
For an behind it
Ths psepie In ffont Ut the jar.
In this love for Wholesome nonsense and
his keen. dry humor. Mr.. Wilson 10 very
much like Lincoln. He further resem-
bles the gVeat liberator In his perfect
simplicity and his democracy.
Young Wilson had taken up the study
Of the lAw. recognising it a. the most
direct avenue leading to . public life. An
soon a. he had completed his studies 1t
Charlottesville he went 10 Atlanta to
launch his legal career. He Joined part
perehip with young man named Reniek.
who had also just completed his college
work, and the shinsis of "Rsnick 4 Will
SON. was swung out at y Marietta
Street.
nA,pAa ae q IA~v~~.
But ths young men were stranssrs in
Atlanta. Moreover. there were many
lawyers there. and nearly every one
had . relative practieins laS.'
HoWsves. Il wasn..t % sad n one
might think-this waiting for clients to
turn up-because while he = the wait
ing kind, he Invariably works while he
wsitA And % he found time to elabor-
ate the article he had written while At
Princeton into . book. But he was
unable to ind in Atlanta the facilities
he needed 10 complete the volume. so
In the autumn Of 18n he entered Johns
Hopkins University and took up .
course In history and political economy
under the late Herbert b. Adams and
Or. Richard +. Ely.
In making his investdGations Wilson
desirsd nothing but the facts His re-
esArches were prodisioua, and Amhasa-
dor James Brycs found him oe great
assistancs while be was comptitn6 his
American Commouwsalth." The. result
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