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man Of letters. he became an edu-
Gator and won his first attention from
the public as president of Princeton
ways of political system he became
Governor of New Jersey and later,
because the voters Of the republican
party were divided between Theodore
Roosevelt and William H. Taft. he
became President of the United
States
During his eight years Of power he
travelled the gamut of human emo
tions: victory, defeat. courtship and
marriage, responsibility for leading
q nation into war with the collateral
responsibility of bring it back again
to the ways of peace, and, finally, a
daily struggle with death.
Hailed and Kissed by World.
He had heard himself hailed by the
millions of Europe as "the god Of
peace" and heard his name Kissed by
the same millions. Acclaimed at one
time almost as new Messiah, he
heard himself excoriated and de-
nounced as an autocrat and worse at
home and abroad. No other Preside mt
since Lincoln was SO worshiped and
hated; no other President since
Roosevelt had such friends and such
enemies. Through 1t all he preserved
an outward calm, while the grim de-
stroyer which lowered close about
him during the last months of his
occupancy of the presidency, followed
him relentlessly to the modest home
where he lived the ways of a retired
gentleman and knocked at his door
every day until 1t was at last opened.
After having borne the burdens of
r. war President, he undertook the
task Of making a peace which he
sincerely believed would be lasting
one, and. although he succeeded In
getting Europe to accept 1t in large
measure, his own country rejected 1t.
And in the fight he broke his health.
of paralysis which led to his death,
and declared through 1t all that he
would have been happy to give his
life for the success of his efforts.
Was Precedent Smasher.
Woodrow Wilson was a precedent
smasher from beginning to end. He
began by reviving the practice OF
Washington and Jefferson in deliv-
ering his messages to Congress In
person; he finished by actually leay-
ing American soil and going to Eu-
rope: His was the responsibility OF
deciding when a country with a
was ready to throw itself Into the
great world war. and when the mo.
Inent came he took the responsible
ity OF throwing in the men and mil.
lions which turned the scale to vic.
tory.
Whatever an army of Boswells NAV
write. that will be the part in which
he will be best remembered by com
ing generations.
Born in staunton. Va, December
he was christened Thomas woodrow
Wilson, and he was known in early
life as Tommy" After he was
graduated from Princeton in 1879 he
was known only as Woodrow Wilson.
His father was the Rev. Joseph Rug.
giles Wilson, a Presbyterian clergy
man, and his mother was Jessie
Woodrow.
When he was two years old the
nortunes Of his father took the fam
iu, annts.s s. &c e. where at the age Of
entered Davidson College, but left
there soon to go to Princeton. After
graduation at Princeton he studied
law At the University OF Virginia and
in 1889 hung out his shingle in At
lanta, Ga. Meantime he courted
Ellen Louise Arson, the daughter Of
a Savannah Presbyterian clergyman.
They were married I'm 1885 and had
three daughters. Margaret, the cid
est, who DID not marry; Jessie. who
became the wife of Francis Bowes
Sayre, and Eleanor, who became the
wife OF William G.. McAdoo. Secretary
OF tho Treasury during her fathers
administration, and later presidential
MI. Wilson once said that q, a
youuG lawyAx he WORE out the rug