Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-23
The Story of His Life From the Cradle to
 the White House
By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE Copyright. 1911. isls. by Doubleday. Page
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CHAPTER V.
Still Studying Law and Politics.

. M A Fl E duced the number of students E at Charlottesville to BPS in E8 the session of 1S79-S0. but war and reconstruction had not low. cred virginia's lofty standard either of scholarship or of honor. Wilson's life here was i'll many respects 9 repet- ton of that at Princeton. Here. too. he Immediately took his place as leader. Study was rather more neces- sary than at Princeton fin those days A man had to work to pass his exam. nations. still :here was a gay set as well as a steady set. and Wilson had friends among both.
 Sports were engaged in to the extent of an occasional baseball game among the students or with a nine from a neighboring town, a foot race or two in the autumn and some boat racing. Wilson played a little baseball and took long walks through the pleasant country lying about, often alone, though sometimes with favorite com panion. At Princeton Greek letter fra ternities were illegal. but they existed with the approval of the faculty at the University of Virginia. and Wilson was initiated into the Phi Kappa Psi.
 He joined the chapel choir and the glee club. The latter circle of har- monious spirits made serenading ex- cursions in the country roundabout two or three times a week, winding up its pleasure imparting career with a grand concert in the town hall Will son many a night stumbled along the rocky roads with his fellow gleemen to arrive at last under the balcony of some damsel and lift his fine tenor voice in "She Sleeps. My Lady Sleeps" and Speed Away" At the grand con cert, which was given on the evening of the final ball. a brilliant audience that crowded the hall beheld the prize orator and prize writer step down to the footlights and render a touching tenor solo. Wilson is best remembered as 6 singer. however. by the thrilling effect with which he usually achieved the high note near the end of ''The Star Spangled Banner"
 Wilson did a good deal of writing while at Charlottesville From the road in front of "Dawson's row" pass ersby would see him sitting at the window in the southeast corner of House F." darkly engaged with aD ink bottle. out of which he had con jured before a year was up the writ CTS prize.
 In March, 1880. the University Mag azine printed an article by him on John Bright. in the following month another on Gladstone The young mans mind still ran. as it had run at Princeton, on the personality of the great political leaders.
 The John Bright article was really a version of an oration which Wilson was delivering that month. So great had his reputation grown in six months that there was a considera ble demand from outside the university for admission, and the occasion was thrown open to the public.
 At Charlottesville. as at Princeton, the student body was divided into two literary and debating societies-the washingtonian and the Jeffersonian- in the common tongue. Wash" and "Jeh." The fortunes of each alternate ly waxed and waned. "Jen" was the stronger in 1879. and Wilson joined it His talents at once won recognition, but he found a competitor to respect fin another "Jef' man, William Cabell Bruce, a young orator of extraordinary ability.
 The chief annual event at Charlottes- vile was a debating contest in the Jeffersonian society. at which two gold medals were awarded. one for debat- ing. the other for oratorical ability. Bruce was given the debaters gold medal. while the orators prize went to Wilson The opinion of pretty near ly everybody. aside from the judges, was that the award should have been reversed. Bruce was ornate in style. Wilson simple, direct and logical
 In a wholly different vein from his speeches in the ''Jeff'' society was one notable effort in which the university's favorite appeared when he delivered medals to the winners in athletic games. Having agreed to make this presentation. Wilson was very much exercised as to what to say and i'm parted his perplexity to an intimate friend, who rattied of two pieces of nonsense which he suggested would about suit the taste of the audience in the gymnasium Neither piece contain ed the slightest allusIon to athletic sports. Yet the orator worked them in
 The gymnasium speech rePresents