Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 429 From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most prolific scholars before entering active politics. Through his labors as student, scholar, and statesman, he left a legacy of elegant writings on everything from educational reform to religion to history and politics. |
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... tion and tempting invitations. Johns Hopkins asked him to accept a chair; the universities of Illinois and Virginia invited him to take the presidency. He was flattered by the attention, but his ties to Princeton were strong, and the ...
... tion. For his part, Wilson again resisted all efforts of the less passionate to work a settlement. In June 1910, the trustees, too tempted by still more pledges of money for West's plan, decided on the off-campus site. This new insult ...
... tion in the field of great themes of thought—if you interdict the literary method in the class-room? I am not inclined, however, to consume very many words in insisting on this point, for I believe that educators are now dealing more ...
... tion and the heart, the variety and felicity of his illustrations, the richness and fluency of his eloquence, and the skill with which he wins the attention and commands the passions of his hearers, leave him, among our English ...
... tion of the universal and permanent forces operative in the life about him, to be almost altogether wanting in that sagacity concerning the local and temporary practical details upon which the hourly facilitation and comfort of his own ...
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On Education and Scholarship | 106 |
The Historian | 147 |
The Political Scientist | 218 |
New Jersey Politics | 313 |
Road to the White House | 341 |
President Wilson | 366 |
Plenary Session of the Peace Conference | 407 |
at Pueblo Colorado | 411 |
About the Editor | 429 |