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Encyclopedia Britannica



WILSON, WOODROW (1856 )

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 697 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WILSON, WOODROW (1856 ) , American educationist, was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 28th of December 1856. He graduated at Princeton in 1879, studied law at the University of Virginia in 1879188o, practised law in Atlanta in 18821883, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns
Hopkins
  University in 1886, his thesis being on Congressional Government (1885; and often reprinted). He was associate professor of ,history and political
economy
  at Bryn Mawr in 18851888 and at Wesleyan University in 18881890; professor of jurisprudence and political
economy
  at Princeton in 1890-1895, of jurisprudence in 18951897, and subsequently of jurisprudence and politics; and in 1902 he became president of Princeton University, being the first layman to hold that office. He retired in r910, and was elected Democratic
governor
  of New
Jersey
 . His administration of the University was marked by the introduction of the "preceptorial" system, by the provision of dormitories and college eating-halls for members of the lower classes, and by the development of the graduate school.
He wrote: The State: Elements of Historical and
Practical
  Politics, Sketch of Institutional History and Administration (1889); The State and Federal Government of the United States (1891); Division and Reunion, 1841889 (1893) in the " Epochs of American History "
series
 ; An Old Master and Other Political Essays (1893); Mere Literature and Other Essays (1893); George Washington (1896), an excellent biography; the popular History of the American People (1902); Constitutional Government in the United States (1908), being Columbia University Lectures; and in the seventh volume of the
Cambridge
  Modern History the chapter on " State Rights, 1850-186o."


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