Woodrow Wilson As Administrator

D ECEMBER 28, 1956, marks the centennial of the birth of Woodrow Wilson, one of our most versatile Presidents. Few Presidents have made so many significant contributions in -such a variety of areas and have had such multifold interesting facets in their personalities. Wilson, the sixth president of the American Political Science Association, is known as an outstanding political scientist for his Congressional Government, The State, and Constitutional Government in the United States, and his numerous political essays. He is recognized as an historian for his History of the American People and Division and Reunion. His presidency of Princeton University and his literary efforts on educational topics won him acclaim as an educator. The reforms enacted under his leadership as Governor of New Jersey marked him as one of the outstanding Governors of his generation. Because of the domestic legislation enacted during his administration, his leadership during World War I, and his advocacy of the League of Nations, he is regarded as one of our greatest Presidents. In 1889-before Wilson was known as an educator, long before his actions as Governor of New Jersey and President of the United States had brought him fame-Professor Herbert Baxter Adams of Johns Hopkins University told a group of his students that society would greatly benefit from the contributions Woodrow Wilson would make in the field of administration.' Professor Adams undoubtedly felt that he had ample basis for expressing that belief, for in 1889 Woodrow Wilson was a