Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-23

likely Co Ice in attendance students who had connections with city news papers who might frequently have made good stories" out of the pro fessor's lively comments on the poll ties of the day. but none ever took ad vantage of the opportunity.
 The classes were now so large that the work of a professor consisted al most entirely of lecturing. As we shall see later. 1t was not then the Princeton idea to give the students any particular oversight or inspiration elsewhere than in the classroom. Yet the Wilson home became and always remained resort hugely popniar with the young men who were so lucky as to be admitted to lt and its dosrs were hospitably hung. Professor VII son, in short. stepped into the position of first fayorite alike with his col leagues of the faculty and with the undergrads. They have at Princeton d way of voting at the end of each year for all possible sorts of popular p,rsonages" For a number of years Professor Wilson was voted the most popular professor He was able, he was genial. he was active. a member of the faculty committee on outdoor sports and of the faculty committee on discipline. In faculty meetings Mir.
 Wilson soon became one of those most sttentiyely listened to.
 During the twelve years, 1890 to 1902. Mr. Wilson continued to fulfill at Princeton the duties of professor of | jurisprudence and politics. They were ! twelve years of steady yet pleasant labor-years of growth and of grow l ing influence both in the university and in the country. Four new books were added to the list signed by this | man who wrote history and politics 1 with so much literary charm-"Diyi- | sion and Reunion" An Old Master" Mere Literature" and George Wash | ington." He was heard now in occa- | sional addresses in many parts of the | land-discussinG public questions be- | fore commercial. industrial and pro fessiOnal bodies The yigor of his | views on questions of the day. as well ! as his readiness. grace and power on | the platform. gave him place among | the recognized leaders of national i thought He had for time continued going down to Johns Hopkins. and
 now he gave occasional lectures at the 1 New York Law school.
 | Al ,the end of q decade in his chair | Mir Wilson had attained, naturally
 and with the good will of all. posi- 1 ton of unchailsnged supremacy in tine | university town and of marked dis | tinction in the country.
 | With such brief summary, this biog- | raphy must dismiss a period the ex-
 ternal facts of which were of little ! dramatic value. incommensurate alto l Sether with their importance in the
 development and strengthening of con | yiction and character which were to have play in the time which we now approach.
 l As one looks into those twelve years i what chiefly impresses him in the man i Is the growth in viyidness of his social
 sense. his love of humanity express. l ing itself most commonly in terms of | patriotism. It is clear. too. that he is
 winning some wise insight into the ! mystery of the unfolding of the minds | of young men. acquiring much skill in | the craft of the teacher and reaching ! withal some conclusions respecting l principles and methods of education. | But. beyond and above all other conyic- ! rions that ripened during these twelve
 years in the eniivening companionship ! of students in the joyful exercise be-
 fore them of his gift of speech and in the lonely stiffness of a heart that | pondered the history of human institu-
 tions and the laws of progress, there
 grew up in Woodrow Wilson a feryent devotion to democracy.
 Princeton. like other American col
 leges. had been going through period i of change. The serious minded men of
 an earlier generation, intent on fitting
 themselves for a learned profession
 and therefore eager to study, had been ! swamped by an influx of fellows of a i uew sort-fellows who came to college
 to stay for a few jolly years on the l way to business. They had no inten-
 ton of doing more than the authori-
 ties required. and Princeton had fallen
 into the habit of requiring little either
 in the way of study or discipline.
 President Francis Landey Patton found
 the new tasks irksome and impossible
 and in June. 1902. resigned them.
 There seems to have been no discus
 sion as to the successorship. It ap-
 pears to have been the most natural
 thing in the world that it should fall
 to the Princeton man who had made a | great name for himself in the world of
 books and of scholarship. who had
 been one of the most active members
 of the faculty and who. above all. by
 his oratorical powers could best rep
 resent the college in the great world
 Wilson. therefore. was chosen, and the announcement was made on commence
 ment day.
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