The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-05

son became managing editor of the
college paper and was prominent in un-
dergraduate activities.
Graduates at %.
At the age of % he signalized the
closing of his undergraduate days at
Princeton by breaking into the Inter-
national Review, in it's issue of Au-
gust, 1879, with an article entitled
Cabinet Government in IL United
States" The article contrasted Brit
ish and American systems of govern
ment, pointing out advantages in the
British.
In the fall of 1879 Wilson took up the
law course at the University of Vir-
ginia. In May, 1882, he carried his
law diploma and an oratorical prize
to Atlanta, Ca, where he opened an
office for the practice of law. The
Office however, did not prosper and
after eighteen leisurely months he gave
up The Atlanta experiment, however,
was far from eyentless. Although liti-
gants gave nothing for him to do, he
was not idle He improved his time
by securing the promise of Miss Ellen
Louise Axson to be his wife. The
Axsons were prominent Georgia low
lands family. The young couple were
married in 1885.
In 1885 appeared Congressional
Government, a Study of Government
lby Committees" by Woodrow Wilson.
The bulk of the labor on this volume
was done during Wilson's two-year
course in science of government in
Johns Hopkins university, which ac.
cepted this work as a thesis and con-
ferred upon the author the degree of
Phi. D.
In the fall of 1885 Mr. Wilson began
teaching political economy to the girls
of Bryn Wawr From this institution
he went to Wesleyan university, where
he remained until called to Princeton
in 1890 to occupy the chair of juris-
prudence and politics. In 1902 he was
elected president of Princeton.
Changes at Princeton.
President Wilson made 1t clear at the
start that conditions at the university
were to be changed and whether for
better or for worse, to be changed rad
lically. He stated that colleges needed
to be revolutionized and went so far
as to say he would endeavor to grad
uate students as unlike their fathers
as possible
His policies kept him in almost con
tinuous conflict with the university
trustees and professors. In fact, the
bitterest controversies in the institu-
tion's history marked his term Viii
sons friends say it was a conflict be-
tween a progressive and democratic
president and the forces of privilege
and aristocracy.
In May 1910, tae graduate college OF
Princeton university became the lega-
tee of a 100000 estate which could
mot be accepted without sacrificing
Wilson's policies The money was ac-
cepted The presidents resignation
did not come, however until after the
New Jersey state democratic conyen-
tion, on September 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 by large
majority.
Campaign for Governor.
The square, well-formed, gray-eyed
man started his campaign by ordering
the state chairman of his party out of
his Office, never to return. He also
forced through democratic assem-
lbly and republican senate a direct pri-
mary and election law which takes the
organization of both parties in New
4 Jersey out of the hands of the bosses.
Governor Wilson's twenty-five years
of teaching had qualified him, he
thought, to be a beneficiary under An
drew Carnegie's fifteen million dollar
foundation fund for the support of re-
tired college professors. He applied
for the pension but did not get it.
When the news Of the application and
its refusal became public Governor
Wilson made this statement:
The Carnegie foundation for the adj
vancement of teaching is not plan
for old age pensions, but for the grant
ing of retiring allowances on the
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