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latter, at one stage of the negotia
tons quitting the conference and re-
turning to Rome with his colleagues
because of Mr.. Wilson's attitude on
the Adriatic question.
In answer to Italy's claim 70,
Fiumc he was quoted as having
ironically told Orlando: II am sorry
we cannot give YOU New York" The
Presidents stand on self determi
nation for small nations encouraged
national aspirations in Ireland, Ko.
rea, Egypt and other countries al
legiant to certain of the Allied pow
ers. The Russian catastrophe and
affairs on the Mexican border also
added to the Presidents grave prob
lens.
Treaty Signed
The treaty with Germany was
signed on June %, 1919 by the Pres
ident and other repres entatives of
the Big Four" and shortly after
Mr. Wilson sailed for New York. Be-
fore his departure from Brest he ex.
pressed his satisfaction with the set
Elements arrived at in Paris. Then
followed his nationwide tour and its
abrupt termination.
Born in Stanton, Va, Dec. 80
1856. of Scotch-Irish parentage and
christened Thomas Woodrow Wilson
the future President was known as
"Tommy' until he graduated from
Princeton in 1879 and was thereafter
known only as Woodrow Wilson.
His father, the Rev. Joseph Ruggles
Wilson. a prominent Presbyterian
minister, moved to Augusta, Ga.
when Woodrow was two years old.
Later the family went to Columbia
5. C., and there young Wilson, at
the age of II, entered Davidson Col
lege. leaving soon to go to Princeton
Upon graduating he studied law in
the University of Virginia and in
1882 began the practice of law in At
lanta, Ga.
While in Atlanta and at Augusta
he became engaged to marry Miss
Ellen Louise Axsen, daughter of a
Presbyterian- clergyman of Savan.
nah, Ga. The young lawyers clients
were few and he soon abandoned Il
legal career For two years there
after he was a student at Johns Hop
kins University and while there
published his first book, "Congrcs-
sional Government" study of AM
erican politics. 1t won recognition
both in the United States and abroad
and is believed to have been influcn-
tial in evoking offers of profess or-
ships from Bryn Mawr College and
Wesleyan University. He married
Miss AXsen on June 81, 1857 :
He became successfully, professor
of history and political economy at
Bryn Mawr and at Wesleyan Univer-
sity and. later professor of juris-
prudence and political economy at
Princeton where, subsequently, he
was made head Of that institution.
Meanwhile, Professor Wilkon had
gained high reputation as writer
Some Of his works, with the date of
their production, were as follows:
"The State-Elcmcnts of Historical
and Practical Politics. t1S89); "Di-
vision and Reunion" l1893); "George
Washington, (lS96); "A History OF
the American People l9O2); "Con-
stitutional Government in the United
States 1908); Gree Life 1919;
THE New Freedom" (l913) when
Man Comes To Himself" u9l5);
zone Being Human" n9lG); ear
Old Master and Other Political Es-
says" and "Mere Literature and
Other Essays were among his CARL
er writings. His state papers, notes
to belligerent governments and ad.
dresses TO Congress, would fill many
volumes.
The honorary: degree of Doctor oil
Laws was bestowed; upon him By
Wake Forest College 1887, Tulane
University (1s93); Johns Hopkins
1902); Brown University l1903)
Harvard Unversity;(1 9079; William,
College (19Os); and Dartmouth Col
lege (1909). Yale made him a poe
or Of Literature in 1901