putting it into unnecessary purchases of bricks and mortar.

In this plan, too, he was opposed; for the traditions of Princeton called for the most expensive buildings, with elaborate furnishings for the interior, and artistic exterior surfaces which bear no indication of economy. That the utmost extravagance prevailed in the construction of the new Graduate School is proven by the authorized statement that it represents an investment of seven thousand dollars per capita of students to be housed therein. This vast expenditure of funds for building seemed to Doctor Wilson inconsistent with a proper sense of proportion; for he is a prudent manager. He studied and audited the budget of the University with as much care and precision as a multi-millionaire would exercise in the management of a colossal enterprise. But it is hard to convince most plutocrats that a great portion of surplus capital should be devoted to the general interests of humanity. They are more inclined to think that the bulk of it should be appropriated to the perpetuation of their own names and memories;-then if there are any husks left they may be given to the masses, but even then generally with a string tied to them.

Of course there were many members of the Million

aires' Club who poured funds generously into the coffers of Princeton, and this they did with worthy and commendable purposes, but, too often, with the proviso of dictating the objects for which their money should be used. But there were a few whom President Wilson had to disabuse of the idea that because they gave money they could dictate the academic policy of the University. It took courage to do this, but the Doctor has never lacked in this most essential element of honor. He politely assured some most estimable gentlemen that their privileges terminated with their specifications for the use of their donations for certain buildings, students' prizes, and class scholarships. Emphatically they could not give money to be used for educating people according to the personal ideas and ideals of the donors. Princeton must remain a free and independent institution of learning, so long as Woodrow Wilson was its academic head. Professors must be allowed a free hand in their various departments, and the president and the faculty were to determine what standards should be established and how they were to be maintained. In other words there was no compromise with "special privilege." The social life might be governed by plutocracy; but the class-room work and instruction must be kept democratic.

Even the most thoroughbred aristocrats on Princeton's board saw President Wilson's point of view, although they could not always think in his terms. They, at least, knew the man to be honest, fearless, and most efficient; and they were nearly all glad to retain him as the University's official head.

But it is not surprising that the field of opportunity afforded by the office of college president in a university where conditions tended toward aristocracy did not enable Doctor Wilson to exersice to the best advantage the numerous resources within himself; and that he was called to a place of distinction which corresponds better with the attainments and capabilities of the man. The one 66 who has been faithful over a few things" ought to go on being made "ruler over many."

When Doctor Wilson resigned the presidency of Princeton, after he had accepted the gubernatorial nomination in 1910, he left behind him a record which gave him the rank of America's foremost living historian in that field which deals with the political and social development of the nation. Princeton, under his administration, had grown more rapidly than ever before; and the retiring president left its affairs in a most prosperous and flourishing condition. He had proved himself a con

While Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton University he politely assured some most estimable gentlemen that because they gave money to the institution, they could not dictate its academic policy. Here the good Doctor fought his first battles for Democracy. Never, for an instant, did he compromise with special privilege!