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Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will address the members of the University in Sanders Theatre tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock. The meeting will be under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson and the Harvard Democratic clubs and only members of the University will be allowed to attend. Seats will be reserved until 2.15 for those members of the two clubs who have tickets and for all members of the Faculty. The entrance for the reserved seats will be by the north door, near Kirkland street.
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856. He graduated from Princeton in the class of 1879, studied law at the University of Virginia during the next two years and then for two years practised law in Atlanta. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1886; his doctor's thesis on "Congressional Government" has often been reprinted. He was Associate Professor of History and Political Economy at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1888 and at Wesleyan University from 1888 to 1890. In the latter year he accepted the chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Princeton, which he held until he became president of the University in 1902. His administration at Princeton was marked by the introduction of the "preceptorial" system, aiming to bring the students into close touch with a body of young graduates on the faculty, by the provision of dormitories and college dining halls for the members of the lower classes, and by the development of the graduate school.
In 1910, President Wilson retired from his office to run as Democratic candidate for the governorship of New Jersey, to which office he was elected in the same year. Since that time he has been a promising choice of the Democratic party for the presidency.
Governor Wilson's most famous work is the "History of the American People," in five volumes, which has run through several editions. He has also written several books on state and federal government and on constitutional government in the United States. In 1893, he published two books of essays on politics and literature, and in 1896, his biography of George Washington.
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