Evening star., 1916-11-10
Unlike Some Predecessors, He
Has No Superstitions and
Fears No "Hoodoos."
TAKES LOTS OF SLEEP
AND OUTDOOR EXERCISE
Writes All Important Speeches on
His Own Typewriter-Punctuality
q Characteristic.

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christened Stephen Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. wilson dropped his first given
name. He was entered as a student at
princeton as Thomas Woodrow Wilson,
and Tommy" he was always called by
his parents. Tommy" Wilson. the Au-
gusta schoolboy. was described by
Prof. John T. Derby, one of his teach
ers, as quiet. but exceptionally studi-
| Gus. The most important instructor Of
young Wilson. however, was his father.
a man of wide information on the af-
fairs of the world
His father believed that nobody had
grasped thought until he could put 1t
quickly and definitely into words. This
he did himself, and this he taught his
son to do. AS result, as Tommy"
which speech is set down. he was
learning a method of recording and
transmitting a language which he was
already well able to handle.
Enters Davidson College.
The Wilson's moved from Augusta to
Columbia, S. c., in 1870, DR.. Wilson re-
signing his pastorate to take the chair
of pastoral and evangelisttc theology
in the Southern Presbyterian Theologf-
cal Seminary at Columbia. The son
attended Charles Barnwell's private
school. At the age Of seventeen he en-
tered Davidson College at Davidson,
NJ
Living at the college was rather
primitive; the boys kept their own
and brought in wood for their own
fires, and carried in water from the
pump. Young Wilson Joined literary
society and played on the base ball
nine. He did not finish the year at
Davidson. for he fell i'll before examina-
tions came on and was taken to his
home. then at Wilmington. n. C.. where
his father had taken a pastorate. Here
Wilson took things easy for a year,
except for tutoring in Greek and few
other studies that he thought might
be necessary for entrance to Princeton
In September, 1875.
Woodrow Wilson obtained prominence
among his mates in the famous class
of '79. No less than AZ of the 122 grad
yates of '79 were honor men," having
an average of 80 per cent or better for
the four-year course. Wilson barely
got in among them; he ranked forty
one. Besides being a good student at
Princeton. Wilson became managing
editor of the college paper and was
prominent in undergraduate activities.
He spent a great deal of his time in
the college library, specializing on gov
ernment, the theory of it and the lives
assiduous practice in writing and ex-
temporaneous speaking. He belonged
to Wing Hall and the Liberal Debat-
ing Club. Wilson was not recorded as
a prize debater, but he did score as
second sophomore orator.
AT the age of twenty-five he signal
ICED the closing Of his undergraduate
days at Princeton by breaking into the
International Review. In its issue of
August. 1879. with an article entitled
States." he contrasted British and
American systems of government,
pointing out advantages in the British.
In the fall of 1879 he took up the law
course at the University of Virginia,
where he indulged in long. dropping
mustache and in membership in tho
glee club.
"she Sleeps. My Lady Sleeps" is
concerts to have been one of Wilson's
tenor solos.
Takes Up Practice of Law.
In May, 1882. he carried his law
diploma and an oratorical prize to Allan
ia, Ga, where he opened an office for
the practice of law. The office, how
ever, did not prosper, and after eight
cen months he quit. The Atlanta ex-
pertinent, however. was lar from event.
less. Although litigants gave him
nothing to do. he was not idle. He i'm
proved his time by securing the prom
Use of Miss Ellen Louise Axson to be
his wife. The Axsons were promi-
nent Georgia lowlands family. The young
couple were married June a. 1855
In 1885 appeared Congressional Gov
ernment, Study Of Government by
Committee" by Woodrow Wilson The
bulk of the labor was done during VIII
cons two-year course in science of gov
ernment in Johns Hopkins University,
which accepted the work as q thesis
and conferred upon the author the de-
gree of PHI D.
In the fall of 1885 Mr. Wilson began
teaching political economy to the girls
of Rryn Mawr From this institution
he went to Wesleyan University Here
he helped to coach the foot ball team
which In 1889 defeated Pennsylvania
and scored on Yale, where he remained
until called to Princeton in 1890 to oc-
cupy the chair of Jurisprudence and
politics. In 1902 he was elected presi-
dent Of Princeton
President Wilson made it clear at the
start that conditions at the university
were to be changed, and, whether for
better or worse. to be changed radical
ly. He stated that colleges needed to
be revolutionized, and went so far as
to say he would endeavor ito graduate
students as unlike their fathers as
possible" His policies kept him in al
most continuous conflict with the uni
versity trustees and professors. In