The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-29
WOODROW
WILSON
The Story of His Life
From the Cradle to
the White House
By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE
Copyright. 1911. 1872 by Doubleday. Page
& Co.

The fact is that the discussion OF the
donor to dictate how his money should
be used had revealed the existence OF
a bottomless chasm In the ways Of
thinking. in the attitude of spirit that
characterized two sets Of Princeton
men. 1t was the chasm that divides
democracy and aristocracy. respect for
the rights of manhood and submission
to the rights of property, 1t was an
ineradicab!e instinct in President Will
son and the men who supported him
that the life OF students must be made
democratic
Those who were enthusiastic for a
university in which social lines should
be obIiterated and a group of co-ordi-
nate democraeies set up were divided
from those who were content to main
tain and even accentuate distinctions
by cleavage as deep as any that ex-
lists in the world today. No wonder
that the partisans of the opposition, in
the board and out, looked on Wilson
as a dangerous man: no wonder that
he, slowly aroused by their vilifica-
ton, began occasionally to unslip the
leash OF his tongue, denounce colleges
and churches for yielding to 1.-THE ac.
cursed domination of money" and
make imprisoned appeals for a dec
laration of college independence. When
the going is rapid Wilson isn't the
man to bother about a shock absorber.
At Pittsburgh, addressing alumni, he
poured out all his soul:
The great voice of America does not
come from seats of learning. 1t comes in
a murmur from the hills and woods and
the farms and factories and the mills,
rolling on and gaining valume until it
comes to us from the homes Of common
men. Do these lnurmurs echo in the cor
ridors of universities? I have not heard
them.
The universities would make men for
get their common origins, forget their uni
versal sympathies. and join class, and
no class ever can serve America.
have dedicated every power that there
is within me to bring the colleges that
have anything to do with to an absolutely
democratic regeneration in spirit.
/ know that the colleges of this country
must be reconstructed from top to bot
tom, and I know that America is going to
II.
and think / hope that they viii think on
these things-that they will forget tradi-
ton in the determination to see to 1t that
the free air OF America shall permeate
every Granny of their college.
Will America tolerate the seclusion of
graduate students? VIII America tolerate
the idea of having graduate students set
apart? America viii tolerate nothing ex-
cept unpatronized endeayor. Seclude &
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 a thing which Ameri-
ca will brand with its 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 applauded) 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
immortals jests with us:
In the town Of Salem, Mass, lived
an old man named Isaac c. Wyman
lege of New Jersey one June day in
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 a day later. May
IS. by the decease of Isaac c.. Wyman
the graduate college of Princeton unl
versity became the legatee of an estate
estimated at more than $3.000.a@2 ne
queathed in the trusteeship of John NJ
Raymond of Salem and Andrew +.
West of Princeton.
There is no quarreling with the dead
At the June trustee meeting the Proc
tor offer was renewed and accepted
The president made polite announce
ment of his acquiescence in the situa-
ton created by the miraculous wind
fall. The gigantic new fund altered
everything.
Commencement was season of care
full observance of all outward ameni-
ties. The president made the speech
presenting II. Taylor Pvne, Esq, the
leader of the opposition among the
trustees, with a gold cup, celebrating
the attainment of his twenty-f1fth year
as a trustee. He attended a dinner
given by Dean West in honor of Mr. |
Proctor. All that a man forced to con-
fess himself defeated by events could
gracefully do be 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
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 VIII
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 q 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 at PrincetonI
was done.
He was to retire, but not to obscu-l
rity, even temporary. The country had
not missed altogether what was going
on at Princeton. The state had been