Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - 429 страница From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most prolific scholars before entering active politics. Through his labors as student, scholar, and statesman, he left a legacy of elegant writings on everything from educational reform to religion to history and politics. |
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... character of government in the United States. His studies emphasized the importance of executive leadership. Those ideas, his experience as university president, and his own sense of mission guided his political career in times of peace ...
... character. In chapter 3, writings from Wilson's early thought on education, as expressed in “True Scholarship” (1877), through an essay at the close of his academic career, “On the Importance of the Liberal Arts” (1910), reveal both ...
... character and guided his action to the end of his life. His father was a strong, sometimes domineering figure in his life for many years, and the shy boy worked hard to please him. But Wilson 1 introduction Woodrow Wilson: Scholar- ...
... character and quality of American university training. He had already publicly criticized what he saw as excessive specialization and vocational concern and lamented inadequate devotion to the training of the mind and the pursuit of ...
... character of the undergraduate experience at Princeton. Perhaps even more important than the preceptor system was Wilson's revision of the program of studies, for the teaching revolution was preceded by basic changes in the curriculum ...
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On Education and Scholarship | 106 |
The Historian | 147 |
The Political Scientist | 218 |
New Jersey Politics | 313 |
Road to the White House | 341 |
President Wilson | 366 |
Plenary Session of the Peace Conference | 407 |
at Pueblo Colorado | 411 |
About the Editor | 429 |