The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-04
ALUMNI
AND WILSON
PRESiDENT-TO-BE FRATERNIZES
WITH MANY YOUNG AND
OLD GRADUATES.

Washington, March 3.-President-
elect Woodrow Wilson received tonight
a Princeton welcome to the national
capital-a welcome hat brought en-
~inisccnces of his nan years as presi-
dent OF Princeton university. The oc-
casion was a smoker attended by grad
yates from all parts of the country.
For an hour the p~resident-elect was
the center of a demonstration Of cheers
and songs. He had not intended to
make a speech, but the enthusiasm of
it all moved him so deeply that he
spoke for a few minutes, expressing
his thanks for the confidence that the
Princeton alumni had reposed in him.
Fellows, | had not expected to say
anything he said with a noticeable
tremor in his voice, because the only
appropriate thing to say l can't say,
because there are no words for it.
There are some emotions that are very
much deeper than a mans vocabulary
can reach; and ! have a feeling to-
night that moves me very much, in
deed.
We LAY often spoken of our COM
radeship together as Princeton men,
and | have spoken so often that | am
ashamed to repeat it almost, of the
part that Princeton has played in pub
lie life and the part that she ought to
play in public life, and I have spoken
often of that sense of having n great
invisible brotherhood that binds a man
by uncommon standards of honor and
of service.
Now | stand here on the eve of at
tempting a great task-a profoundly
great one-and know that there are so
many men in the United States who
know me and understand me and to
whom | do not have to explain any
thing. Members of the family do not
have to be old what is going to hap
pen. And therefore it is not necessary
to make a speech to the family.
Il have only to say that my feel
ing tonight is a family feeling, of being
among men trained as | was trained,
looking out upon life as | look out
upon it and ready to give me tina
sympathy which buoys a man up more
than anything else in the world. |
thank Goo that it is so, and I thank
YOU profoundly for this evidence of
it,"
Prolonged cheering followed his
speech and then the singing of old
Nassau Princcton's historic anthem.
The president-elect stood upon a lit
tie platform and Joined in the singing,
moved his appraised hand to and fro
in the refrain of the song as Princeton
men are accustomed to do.
When MI. Wilson arrived, after
n a i ~ u I hr,t,,l, =, III, "
passed through a lane on both sides
of which the alumni stood cheering.
The president-elect was scorted to a
platform where Henry Clay Stewart
81. president of the local Alumni as
ISOLATION, and Mr.. Justice Mahlon Pit
neN. '19, of the United States supreme
court, presented Ilim with a ribbon
tied package of cigars and cigarettes.
Mr.. Wilson took them with a smile.
as he does not smoke. "Locomotiye"
cheers were given with a vim for
wilson and "~PrinCcton,' and soon
the entire crowd of alumni formed a
line and shook hands with Mr.. Wilson
Mr.. Wilson's W class, 1879, was
present, including Cyrus Mccormick of
Chicago, william p. Wilder of New
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AS the graduates filed by, Stanley
hunter 10, who has been a missionary
IN india, gave Mr.. Wilson a tigers
to"lh TOR good luck, which the Dresi-
has now added to his col
'ectioh OF rabbits feet, horse chest
nuts and other luck symbols.
in the crowd of Princeton men were
a icW who had figured consptcuouslv
IN the campaign. William r. Me-
combs, '9S, the democratic national
chairman: RolIa Wells. rs
the democratic national treasurer, and
senator Alice Pomerone, SO, of Ohio
were cheored enthusiastically.
Inc smoker closed with the singing
OF oid Nassau" followed by Amer
lea"