Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-15

little announcement, but who had won
what made him inestimably happier
than anything else Georgia could have
given him. went north in September
About the Same time Miss Arson, too.
went to New York to develop her al
ready recognized talents in painting.
as a member OF the Art Students
league.
The next two years Of Woodrow VII
sons life were spent at Johns Hopkins
university as a student Of history and
political economy. Here he was one OF
~ unusually interesting group which
included Albert Shaw and E. R L.
Gould. John Franklin Jameson, the
historian: Arthur Yager. now president
Of Georgetown college, Kentucky. and
Thomas Dixon, who writes novels.
The advantages enjoyed at Johns
Hopkins by Wilson lay not so much in
the hearing Of lectures as In the oppor-
tunity of making researches. Here he
got a valuable impulse in the direction
OF the careful and exact ascertainipg
of facts. Though always priding him
self on dealing with actualides. VIII
son was never a grubber after fact
and, indeed, never became one. But
he undoubtedly did get here a training
that balanced the natural tendency OF
his mind to work from within out
ward.
He remained two years, the second
year as holder Of the historical fellow
ship. The time was frightened by &C.
casional visits to New York and his
f1ancee and to Philadelphia. where
lived an uncle Of hers whom she some,
! times visited.
There was no glee club at Johns
| Hopkins, but Wilson set straightway
about organizing one. When it was
| proposed to give q concert at Hopkins
| hall and charge for admission in or
der to pay some expense of the organ
ization. the grave gentlemen who at
the time presided over the destinies of
/ the university demurred. President Gill
man offered to donate the necessary
money provided the club would give its
concert without admission fee. In the
slight controversy that followed Will
son appeared as an insurgent. protest
ing that the glee club had its dignity to
consider as well as had the university
The concert was given as originally
planned, and no one felt that the dig
nifty of the university suffered in the
least from the performance.
One piece of writing that Wilson did
at this period, a study of Adam Smith
was recognized by all as exceptional i'll
felicity and power of expression. II
was given magazine publication and
later gave the title to Il volume of es
says-"An Old Master
Early in 1885 was completed and
published-the result of the suggestion
made by the perusal of the Gentle
mans Magazine articles ten years be
fore and Of constant thought and study
ever since-a book. "COngressiOna
Governmental Study OF Government
by Committee by Woodrow Wilson.
1t was the first account of -%s actua
working of the constitution of the Unit
ed States; an inspection OF our govern
ment. not as it Is theoretically consti
tUtcd. but as il actually works.
The book met with instant success
A serious work seldom makes a sen
Sation. and that word would ne too
strong to apply TO the Impression pro
duCed by Congressional Government.
but il is quite true that il received III
enthusiastic reception Mt the hands q
all interested in public matters. OF il
merits il is enough to say that Mr.
; James Bryce. in the preface To "Eht
) American Commonwealth" ackuOwl
edged his obligation to Woodrow vii
son.
1t was great moment in the life q
the young man-indeed. great mOmen
for two young persons. Success lil
this meant that life WAS at last to be
; gin. ON the heels of the fame won b.
Congressional Government came il
] vitatiOns to several college chairs
; There was more work still TO be don
for a Phi. d. But the Johns Hopkn
? faculty was to accept the book as
D doctors thesis. and the author accept
} ed one of the calls-that from Bry
= Mawr, which wanted him to come q
associate in history and political ecor
: omy.
Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louis
Arson were married at her grandfs
5 theirs house, in Savannah. on June .
1885. In the autumn they came to tn
pretty Welsh named village on tn
t main line" near Philadelphia, and
new chapter OF life began.