The Gavelyte, April 1913

I 11 I J I. >llll(l'd flll If the 11111 re 1d 1111'11 m th1 tir ,111 1thcr t•un r . In th .h1l11mn t•I I ill tht \\ ii nn r,H,, cd t,, olumh1,1, 110w a \Plllh 0f thirll.:en enterul c 1111<-g~ ,ll D.1v1tLon, , . (. x pre..,.,I c.h 1 ,) thi · in. tituti,m in ,, hi, h 111 tart hi . ,n', .ir •er, supenorit · of the f.1 ·tilty. The equipment were rather I rn1 itn . It 1 · Wt>k c.ne nf their own ro,Hn filled lht ir uwn lamp. ,rnd t .11 ri d tl1 11 O\\ll woc1d, and brought the walt·r fru111 the will. Ah ,ut tin <1111 r rord ·u1mg \Yd. on. el'!ll'- tll h.lYe made was the ,1hilit) tu dre !I, n, the r,1mpu , 111 Ii:: ·t int u his. c tat chapel, q11ickt·r th lll anyone el c. He i. aid t1• h,n e dt111c till· teat eyeral morning. bdc,re the hell .topp ·cl ringing. lie lucl little c nJ, mcnt in port- preferring nther tu spend hi time t111 hi. book . l'hc n xt ) ',H he remained at home. In cpt. 1 ,;, he entered the Frc hm 111 Cl,1:. ,1t l'rincl't1 n, being one of the ,er\' few who hailed from uuth of the i\[c1so11 and I>ixur,'. lme. ur new president is a 'man ,, ho refu.e to do a tl1i11g !--impl · be- cru. e someone el e ha done it bdore him. From his eMliest ,·t•uth he hj. in- isted upon hi ,,n per onality and indiYidualit ·. He had nut be, 11 at Prince- ton long before he found out that he v. anted to he a public m.ir1; he ,,.·c1nted tu devote his life to the en·ice of his con n try to pl 1y an acti\'e part ir1 the. tirring cene of his country' p litical tage:. He hegan at once to train him•elf tu train hi. mind that he might becume an authorit · on government, rtn'I the hi. - tory of gm·ernment He fir t taught him elf to write .horthand th,1t he might make rapid notes. He also studied pt actical composition work, , nd e. tempo– raneou speaking. Tuday he is without a peer in the nation in that art. To get him to write a speech in advance i~ a l,ard matter. Extempore debates "ere commun in :-chool Once a ) car a great prize was offered to the winner. On une occa io11 he wc1s right i11 line fur the pri1.e wht'u the ub1ect wa "Prutecti,m \ . Free Trade." 'ides were ch,, en by lo\. \Vil on drew the Protect1un ..:ide. He ture the paper 11p, took hi:, seat in di - gut, and aid, "l 'uthing could induce one tu ,1d,·anr~e argumeHt. for .i thing he didn 't believe in. The pri1e went tn omeune else \\'il:on \\a. not a brilliant ,tudent. He ranked fourty-secund rn .i las of one hundred and t,\ent:,.-two. He early began to _how natural aptitude fur I ader,hip, ,rnd b) the end of bis college cuur e his cla · mate luuked tu him to ri·e higher than any uf them. While at Princeton he wrote ,l . plendtd ar-