The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-14

interested in games. which then con-
sisted of baseball and shiny. How
ever. he played baseball for awhile
on the college nine and had the pleas
ure of hearing the captain say. viii
son, you would make a dandy player
IL you were not so d lazy" He
was a great walker and at times
seemed to like to be alone. walking
the country about apparently wrap
ped In thought Still he was. as a
rule, a very social animal and great
talker in congenial company. When
the fellows repaired to his room they
would generally find him curled up on
the bed with book In his hand, read
ing He Joined one of the literary
societies. the "Eumenean."
Once year. in February. a holiday
was given to every student on which
he was to pllnt tree. so. whether
Wilson did II to get the holiday or
because he wanted to do something
useful, be PAINTED an elm on the
campus at Davidson. and 1t stands
there strong and upright today.
Early in the year a small incident
In class fastened upon him a nick
name. The rhetoric class being on
gagged upon that well known part OF
Trench's English. Past and Present"
which sets forth (much after the man
ner of the Wanda in the opening
chapter In "Ivanhoe'l how good Saxon
beasts take Norman names when they
come to the table. the professor asked
Woodrow, What is calves meat when
served at tablet" and received the
hasty reply. "Muttonv' Wilson was
Monsieur Mouton'' for the rest of the
year.
Indeed, he did not finish the year, for
he fell ill just before the examinations
came on and was taken to his home,
then at Wilmington. n. c.. to the pas.
torate of the Presbyterian church to
which city DR.. Wilson had just been
called.
Woodrow remained in his fathers
house at Wilmington throughout the
year 1915. 1t had been determined
that he should not return to davidson.
but should go to Princeton. and he
spent the year tutoring in Greek and a
rev 0ther studies.
In truth, there was a good deal Of
play done that year too. The boy had
grown too fast and was hardly fit for
the rigid schedule of college life. So
he took it easy" Wilmington was an
old and historic place. 1t was sea-
port; for the first time Woodrow saw
a ship and caught the smell Of the sea.
Talk was still full of the adventures Of
the blockade runners Of the war lately
ended, Wilmington having been a ia
vorite port of the desperate men and
swift ships that then made SO many
gallant chapters of sea history. What
imaginative youth from the interior
but would have haunted the docks and
made an occasional. trip down to the
cape, to return with the pilot OF an
outgoing ship.
For the first time here, too, the young
man began to take part In the social
life which is so important an element
OF existence In the south. He was real
ly too young for the associations into
which he was now thrown. DR.. and
Mrs. Wilson Immediately achieving
voted popularity. the parsonage swtftl.
becoming social rendezvous Of the
city. 1t was a city Of gentlemen of
good company and women who would
have been esteemed brilliant the world
over
1t was a CHAP very different from the
raw youth of Davidson who one day In
September. 1875, took the Washington
and Weldon" train for the north to en-
ter Princeton college
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