Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-01-16

always appreciate the lighter side OF
his discourses At all events. It Is r..
membered that he appeared one day
In the lecture room without the long
mustache which had up to then adOrn
ed his countenance-a sacrifice which.
1t was hinted. he had made in the hope
Of being thereafter better able to sug.
gest to his classes certain delicacies Of
thought and fancy which they had
shown little signs Of experimenting.
Bryn Mawr college opened with for.
ty-three students. Three houses at the
edge Of the campus were occupied nv
the dean and professors. many Of the
latter being bachelors. Later Mr.. vii
son leased pretty cottage. the Darson
age Of the little Baptist church On the
old Gulf road. IN the midst Of a love,,
countryside In this. their nrst hone.
the Wilson's took great pride and sat
isfaction. In vacation TIME they went
back south among old friends. II was
in the south that the first two children
we're born.
In June. 1896. Professor Wilson took
his Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins. the uul
versity accepting as his thesis bis book
Congressional Government" During
his third year Mt Rryn Mawr Pr0fes
sor Wilson accepted n iectureship at
Johns Hopkins This took him to Hal
timore once week for twenty i've
weeks
Social life at Rryn Mawr was most
agreeable An invitation to an Older
aud larger institution was. neverthe.
less, not to be declined. Ampler oppOr-
tunity opened in Il school attended by
young men, and In 1883 Professor vii.
son accepted an election to the chair of
history and political economy ut Wes-
leyan university. Middletown. Conn.
From the start Professor Wilson's
courses were extremely popular And
we'll indeed they might be. for New
England had rarely heard such instruc-
ton us was given In the lecture room
Of Wesleyan's professor of history and
political economy. While ut Middle.
town he continued his lectureship at
Johns Hopkins. Now. however. instead
Of going down once week he bunch
ed his twenty-five lectures in IL month
Of vacation allowed him by the Wes-
leyan trustees. His fame as Il popular
lecturer also was growing apace. and
he was frequently called to give I'D
dresses in New England and the east
ern states. 1t was while ut Middle
town that he wrote 1.-The State" vol
ume which. with less pretentions to lit
erary form than his other work: involv-
I'd an enormous amount Of labor.
Mr.. Wilson was member Of the ath-
.etic committee Of Wesleyan and took
the keenest interest in the college
sports. One student Of the time re-
members how incensed he became at
the limited ambition Of the Wesleyan
boys, who. when they played against
Yale, were satisfied only to keep the
score down. "That's no ambition at
ALP he used to cry. "Go In and win.
You can lick Yale as, we'll as any ether
team. Go after their scalps. Don't ad-
NIT for moment that they cam beat
you"
Life at Middletcwn was pleasant
But Mr. Wilson's growing reputation
would not permit him to remain there
When in 1890 the chair Of jurispru-
dence and politics in Princeton COL
lege became vacant through the death
Of Professor Alexander johnson the
trustees elected to It the Princeton
graduate, who had 20 quickly distin-
guished himself as q student Of poll
tics.
September, 1890. then, found Wood
row Wilson again d0miciled In the
Jersey collegiate town. He was now =
man whose renown had begun to
spread in the world. an author, a pub
lie speaker of enviable repute, the
head of a family. a figure Of consid-
GRAFTON, doctor, II you please. both Of
philosophy and of law.
The Wilson's rented house In L.
brary place. After a few years they
built home for themselves on an ad-
joining lot, an attractive half tim
bered house designed by Mrs. Wilson.
The new professor stepped at once
into the front rank, as indeed became
a Princeton graduate, member Of one
Of the most famous classes the old
college had graduated, man thor
oughly imbued with the best tradi-