Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-01-23

graduate students? Viii America tolerate
the idea of having graduate students set
apart? America will tolerate nothing ex-
cept unpatroni2ed endeavor Seclude "a
man. separate him from the rough and
tumble of college life, from all the con-
facts OF every sort and condition of men.
and you have done thing which Ameri-
ca will brand with it's contemptuous dis
approval
TO an utterance 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 appauded) 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
immortas jests with us:
In the town of Salem. Mass, lived
an old man named Isaac G. Wyman
Isaac had been graduated mt the col
lege of New Jersey one June day il
1913. During the sixty-two years since
that day he had never returned to
Princeton.
President Wilson's Pittsburgh speech
was made on April II this WAS in
1910. A month and day later, May
1S, by the decease of Isaac &. Wyman
the graduate college of Princeton Uni
versity became the legatee of an estate
estimated at more than 3.O0O,mo be
uueathed in the trlIsteeship of Iohn NJ
Raymond of Salem and Andrew r.
West of Princeton.
There is no quarreling with the dead.
al the June trustee meeting the Proc
tor offer was renewed and accepted.
The president made Il polite announce
ment of his acquiesccnce in the Situa
ton created by the miraculous wind
fall. The gigantic new fund altered
everything.
Commencement was Il season Of care
full observance of all outward ameni-
ties. The president made the speech
presenting Nj. Taylor Pyne. Esq. the
leader of the opposition among the
trustees with Il gold cup, celebrating
the attainment of his twenty-fifth year
as a trustee. He attended Il dinner
given by Dean West in honor of Mr..
Proctor. All that Il man forced to con-
fess himself defeated by events could
gracefully do he did. What 1t cost his
soul no man could guess. A moral de-
feat he had not suffered. The principle
for which he had stood had not been
dsproved. discredited or annulled. The
gods had overwhelmed it; that was
all.
OF course he was laughed at. sneer-
ed at even, by certain alumni. called on
to resign. If they had dared the tri-
umphant party would have dismissed
him They did not dare. Woodrow Will
son was too strong before the country.
There was this fly 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 a 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 ut 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 to be leading the fight for their
cause out in the world of real affairs.
Politicians heard that call and shrewd-
ly joined it. On Sept. 10 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 a new term, with the resig-
nation Of its president in the hands of
the trustees. who in due time voted
him all manner of complimentary reso-
lutions, made him still another kind of
doctor, inexpressibly regretted his resig-
nation ana accepted it on the part of a
small majority with thanks unspoken.
but infinite in their sincerity.
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