In response to: Princeton Renames Wilson School and Residential College, Citing Former President’s Racism
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November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
If Woodrow Wilson were alive today and facing the same choice that President Eisgruber and the Board faced, what do we suppose his decision might be?
I suspect that as a visionary, progressive leader in almost every way — a man whose life was informed by the past yet inspired by his dreams of the future — Wilson would consider the choice an easy one. Or at least a clear one.