WOODROW See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WOODROW WILSON (1856— )
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 (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
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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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