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The Formal Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson ’79
The ride from the Capitol to the White House at the head of the inaugural parade was a spectacle of color, predominant in it all being the orange and black...
Princeton's Farewell to President Woodrow Wilson ’79
Woodrow Wilson ’79 Elected as President of the United States
“The lesson of this election is a lesson responsibility. I believe that a great cause has triumphed, but a cause can not go forward by the activities of a single...
President Woodrow Wilson’s ’79 Address Regarding Graduate Students (1910)
“And so, gentlemen, as a business proposition what ought we to do? Take the money at the risk of having no graduate students, or get the graduate students at the...
President Woodrow Wilson's ’79 Annual Report (1908)
“The comfort and convenience of class-room work and of preceptorial conferences have been immeasurably increased by the completion of McCosh Hall, a building which has in use confirmed in every...
President Woodrow Wilson ’79 in Indianapolis
“The result is that our school curricula and the courses provided in our colleges have become a perfect miscellany, without order and without standard. It is time that we recognize...
Ideals of Public Life: An Address Made by President Woodrow Wilson ’79
“We live in a very confused time. The economic developments which have embarrassed our life are of comparatively recent origin, and our chief trouble is that we do not exactly...
President Woodrow Wilson's ’79 Address to the Board of Trustees
“The plan in its briefest terms is this: to draw the undergraduates together into residential quads in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they...
A Letter from Alumni to President Woodrow Wilson ’79
Such is the man, and such a man is needed by the country, from whatever political party he may spring. We have no hesitancy, therefore, in inviting serious consideration of...
Woodrow Wilson's ’79 Preceptorial Experiment
As an experiment in teaching, Mr. Wilson’s effort has been a distinct success and educators throughout the country recognize the immense value that his administration has already been to Princeton.
President Woodrow Wilson ’79 Reports on Material Growth and Financial Condition
The total invested funds of the University amount at par value to but $2,705,500, yielding an income of $185,261.65. The total income of the University, from all sources, is but...
President Woodrow Wilson ’79 in the Northwest
“A university which one goes to in a street car cannot, it seems to me, fulfil the true ideal of what a university should be.” - President Woodrow Wilson ’79
Woodrow Wilson ’79 In Philadelphia
“What Princeton Stands For and Should Stand For” was the subject of Dr. Wilson’s speech.
President Woodrow Wilson ’79 at Reunions
"My Scotch-Irish temper got the better of me, and I told him that Princeton did not follow in the footsteps of any university, but beat her own trail as she...
President Woodrow Wilson ’79 Campaigns For Preceptorials
"Wherever you have a small class and they can be intimately associated with their chief in the study of an interesting subject they catch the infection of the subject; but...