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men mapped out a plan whereby
the rush line was so contracted
that the men stood side by side
about as today, while the backs
were nearer to tie rush line.
Quick line plLnges and double
criss-cross plays were also worked
out; and so Wesleyan had Win
ming team. 1t whipped every
thing OF its size, and when there
was talk of trying to score
against the big teams-Yale, Tor
instance - Wilson, who never
could bear to admit inferiority,
told the team: That's no ambi-
ton at ALL. Go in and win. You
can lick Yale as well as any
other team. Go after their scalp.
Don't admit, that they can beat
YOU Again the. Alumnus Maya
zine. tells a football story:
Thanksgiving brought hard
storm, and the days battle was
fought in a sea of mud. The
Lehigh team developed an al
together unexpected strength,
and the game was going their
way. Twict Lehigh scored easy
touchdowns, and it seemed as
though Wesleyan faced certain
defeat. Then suddenly, from the
Wesleyan bleachers, man
walked out in front clad in
heavy rubber boots and rain
coat. He shouted to the Wes-
leyan contigent, reproaching
them for not cheering for their
team, and at once began to lead
them in the Wesleyan yell, beat
ing time for them with his
umbrella. He continued this
violently until the Wesleyan
cheers heartened Slayback's
men in spite of their handicap,
and the tide OF the game turned
for two touchdOwns as Peck,
Mcdonald, Slayback. and Hall
crashed into the Brown and
White line, and tied the score.
After the game, the Lehigh
players, inquiring about the
magnetic cheer-leader, were in
formed that he was Wesleyan's
professor Of history, Doctor Wood
row Wilson. Well returned
the Lehigh men, 'he is all right,
Tor he saved you"
There was the leader develop
ing. organizing men. starting them
on new trails, goading their am
billions, squirting them to their
best form.
As q Young Teacher.
Now let us look at him as a
young teacher. The Wilson's lived
in white, frame house on High
street-a street which Charles Dick
ems. visiting Middletown twenty
years before, called the most
beautiful avenue in America" The
house stood among great elms and
naples in a wide lawn, all typical
Of our American cHege towns.
When he was not teaching he was
writing his History Of the Amer
lean People But in class room
he was a. most engaging young
person. A member OF his classes
1T Wesleyan writes:
As the lecture began there was
IN. air of expectancy-and often
we were so interested in the die
ton and body of his discourse that
we forgot to take notes. | can
gee him now with his hands fer
ward. the tips Of his. fingers jlst
COUGHING the table, his face earnest
and animated, many times iHufns-
mating an otherwise dry and tedi-
BUS subject by beautiful language
and apt illustrations. When we
:ame unprepared to his first lee
.ure. the young professor said:
We'll. gentlemen. IL You want me
% lecture on constitutional law,
offhand, I suppose, CAM AMI
his hands deep into his
trousers pockets as a bracer. Re
proceeded to lecture extemporane-
1usly for an hour.
A FavOrife in College.
1t was that fine free way with
him that made the young pro.
essor favorite in the college.
When he had been walking the
loor with the baby the night be-
ore, he said so, and asked his
.lasses to bear with him. He
tracked jokes and got on fra.
ernal terms with everyone.
Those were the Wilsonian days;
he Woodrows lay submerged In
lis being. II he had adversarie5,
he loved them, and forgot them.
L was a gala time in the Wilson
life.
: Ellen Arson was young and
oveIy. The house was full Of
oy and children, and the world
vas bringing him rare gifts,
anne through his books, success
N his classes, the comradeship'
1f friends, and the sweet COM
with his beloved; his
wife, his father, who sometimes
,ame North to visit him; young
stockton Arson, who all his lie
was a dear brother to him, and
he alteration Of his little chill
1ren. His God, all his life, had
showered upon him benevolences
which strengthened his faith in
he moral government Of the uni
verse. He lived in the best
houses, with the best people, IN
he most favored and beautiful
places in his land.
He had a clear, quick mind and
4 handsome body, though frail, In
whose Wesleyan days and in the
decade that followed those days.
Then, by way of roofing Woodrow
" ilSon IalIp IN the goodness Oh
God and the essential nobility OF
man, destiny gilded and bejeweled
all his gifts. His family idoliZed
him. His books brought him
money along with his fame. He
went out lecturing, and audiences
and paid well. Success
came in his calling.
Came Back AS a Teacher.
Ten years after he left Prince
ton as a senior he came back
there as a teacher-professor Of
Jurisprudence, teaching political
science. 1t was a triumph, a
triumph of virtue. For we must
never forget what Kind of a boy.
youth, and man Woodrow Wilson
was--a ''mischievous bundle OF
nerves" but GOOD; a studious and