In his address President Wilson said that the university needs $12,500,000; that this need is immediate, and is based upon a careful and detailed calculation; half of it, he said, is wanted in order to enable Princeton to do in a workmanlike fashion what is already set down in the catalogue – that is, to do as it ought to be done the present work of the undergraduate departments.

 President Wilson is to make many public addresses during the year.

Princeton For the Nation’s Service

The administering of the oaths was an impressive ceremony. We print below the full text of the new President’s vows. He made his responses as if he meant them to serve for more than a quaint bit of symbolism.

"How can a man who loves this place as I love it realize of a sudden that he has now the liberty to devote every power that is in him to its service. You must sympathize with me, I feel sure, in the feeling with which I realize that I am to be the successor of the brilliant man who has just addressed you." - Woodrow Wilson

"He was cheered vociferously, which seemed to amuse him, as he smiled appreciatively. He, too, was welcomed with an old alumni yell.” - The Baltimore News

Therefore with shrewdness and dispatch, for which we beg to offer thanks on behalf of the admiring alumni, the board, being unanimous in their opinion as to the proper one to succeed President Patton, and he favoring the same man, proceeded forthwith to elect Prof. Wilson the new President of Princeton. No other name was proposed.

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