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WOODROW WILSON (1856— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 697 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILSON (1856— )  , See also:American educationist, was See also:born in See also:Staunton, See also:Virginia, on the 28th of See also:December 1856 . He graduated at See also:Princeton in 1879, studied See also:law at the University of Virginia in 1879—188o, practised law in See also:Atlanta in 1882—1883, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns See also:Hopkins University in 1886, his thesis being on Congressional See also:Government (1885; and often reprinted) . He was See also:associate See also:professor of ,See also:history and See also:political See also:economy at Bryn Mawr in 1885—1888 and at Wesleyan University in 1888—1890; professor of See also:jurisprudence and political economy at Princeton in 1890-1895, of jurisprudence in 1895—1897, and subsequently of jurisprudence and politics; and in 1902 he became See also:president of Princeton University, being the first layman to hold that See also:office . He retired in r910, and was elected Democratic See also:governor of New See also:Jersey . His See also:administration of the University was marked by the introduction of the "preceptorial" See also:system, by the See also:provision of dormitories and See also:college eating-halls for members of the See also:lower classes, and by the development of the See also:graduate school .

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