Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-28

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 The great voice of America does net come from seats of learning. It comes in a murmur from the hills and woods and the farms and factories and the mills rolling on and gaining valume rntil it comes 10 us from the homes Of common men. Do these murmurs echo !n the cor riders of universities? l have not heard them
 The universities would make men for get their common origins. forget their uni- Nersal sympathies. and join class. and no class ever can serve America.
 I have dedicated every power that there is within me 10 bring the colleges that have anything to do with to an absolutely democratic regeneration in spirit
 l know that the colleges of this country must be reconstructed from top to bot tosn. and l know that America Is going to demand it While Princeton men pause and think I hope that they Will think on these things-that they Will forget tradi- ton fin the determination 10 see 10 it that the free air Of America shall permeate every cranny Of their college.
 VIII America tolerate the seclusi0n of graduate students? Wifi America tolerate the idea of having graduate students set apart? America will tolerate nothing ex- cept unpatronized endeavor Seciude a man. separate him from the rough and tumble of college life. from all the con tacts os every sort and condition of men, and you have done thing which Ameri- ca win brand with its contsmptuous dis approval
 To an utternnce like that there could be no reply. In an issue thus clearly defined before the whole world (for the Pittsburgh speech got into the papers and all America appIauded) no living board Of college trustees would have dared separate itself from the bold speaker.
 No reply? No living men to take is sue? Behold how the president of the lmmortals tests with us:
 In the town of Salem. Mass. lived an old man named Isaac c. Wyman Isaac had been graduated at the col lege of New Jersey one June day in ls4S. During the sixty-two years since that day he had never returned to Princeton.
 President Wilson's Pittsburgh speech was made o3 April F (this was in l9lO. A month and a day later. May .S. by the drcease of Isaac c. Wyman. the graduate college of Princeton mt yersity became the legatee of an estate estimated at more than S3lO00O0O be- quenthed in the trusteeShip of Jchn Nj. Raymond oi salem and Andrew F. West of Princeton.
 1acrc k uu quarreling with the dead.
 Al the June trustee meeting the Proc tor offer was renewed and accepted Tine president made polite announce ment Of his acquiescence in the situa. ton created by the miraculous wind. fall. The gigantic new fund altered everything.
 Commencement YVES T season of care ffl observance of all outward ameni- ties. The president made the speech presenting M Taylor Pyne. Esq. the leader of the opposition among the trustees. with a gold cup. celebrating the attainment of his twenty-fifth year as a trustee He attended a dinner given by Dean West ln honor of Mir. Proctor All that man forced 10 con- fess himself defeated by events could gracefully do he did. What it cost his soul no man could guess A moral de- feat he had not suffered. The principle for which be had stood had not been disprCved. discredifed or annulled. The gods had overwhelmed 1t: that was all
 Of course he was laughed at. sneer- ed at even. by certain alumni, called on 10 resign. If they had dared the tri- umphant party would have dismissed him. They dld not dare. Woodrow VII son was too strong before the country. There was this tiy in the ointment of their rejoicing--an alumni trustee was being elected this year. as usual, and it was the turn of the west to name him. But eastern anti-Wilsonites had put up candidate and made frenzied campaign for him. At commencement the result was made known-the anti Wilson. Mr. Joline. had been over whelminGly beaten But the president himself felt that his work at Princeton was done
 He was to retire. but not to obscu- rity. even temporary. The country had not missed altogether what was going on at Princeton. The state had been watching him. And now there came rolling up from the people-the people outside of the colleges, the citizens for whom colleges exist-a great shout that this man was the sort of man that ought 10 be leading the fight for their cause out in the world of real affairs. Politicians heard that cali and shrewd- ly joined it. On Sept. I5 a New Jersey state conventiOn-that of the Demo cratic party-in session at Trenton, nominated Woodrow Wilson for the governorship.
 A week later Princeton university opened for new term. with the resig- nation of it's president in the hands of the trustees. who in due time voted him all manner of complimentary reso- lutions. made him stili another kind of doctor. inexpressibly regretted his resig nation and accepted it on the part of a small majority with thanks unspoken. but infinite in their sincerity.
 CHAPTER <.
 Out of Princeton Into Politics.