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

obligation 10 Woodrow Wilson. 1t
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
years later he 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
err 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 a college was
for the development of a man, as a
man; he inclined to the elective or Sc
lective principle for students and for a
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.
Although it is undeniable that old
line political bosses enabled Governor
Wilson to rise to power in New Jersey,
it is equally certain that none has con-
trolled him since he has been governor.
Until his nomination, his bitterest po-
litical enemies We're ex-senator Smith
and James Nugent, the two most pow
erful Democratic bosses in New Jersey.
A Southern White House.
March 4 of 1914 will see 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
pitalty to that which will have ended
then. There will be nothing superse-
rious i'll 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-
ton will have to burnish 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 its 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 if 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 a presi-
dent. Mrs. Wilson gave up painting
after her marriage.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson was
born &c years ago, while Mrs. Wilson
was visiting relatives at Gainesville,
Ga; Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson made
her appearance a 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.