Woodrow Wilson ’79 at Princeton: A Portfolio

Woodrow Wilson ’79.

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

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By Robert M. Mottar and the Princeton University Library

Published Feb. 17, 1956

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Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Lines inscribed by Wilson in the autograph album of a classmate in 1879, his senior year. At the time he used the signature Thomas W. Wilson.

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

His license to practice law in Georgia, dated 1882. After this disillusioning experience, he returned to the “advantages and delights of study.”

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

...Student, Lawyer, Professor, President

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

A student's notebook in Professor Wilson's course in English Common Law, 1901. The student is now Senator H. Alexander Smith ’01.

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

The text of Wilson's inaugural as President in 1902. Not to be confused with “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” his sesquicentennial address.

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

The Scholars on Wilson

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Presidential Portrait

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

The Presidential Chair

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

The Faculty Room

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Badges of Office

Stairs at “Prospect”

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

His Adversaries

Dean West in His Graduate College

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

From his study window in ’79 Hall, Wilson looked out on the eating clubs

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

His Legacy - Great Teaching, Great Teachers

Charles G. Osgood

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Thomas J. Wertenbaker

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

“Preceptor Guys”

Luther P. Eisenhart

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

Edward S. Corwin

Erich Hartmann, Magnum (in collaboration with The John Hopkins Magazine)

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