University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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IY' Y 1----main' - if Woodrow Wilson g That CORKS AND CURLS should be dedicated this year to Woodrow Wilson, the most distinguished living alumnus of the University of Virginia, is eminently fitting. ' But to write the dedication to such a man is a most difficult task. To damn him with faint praise is impossible. Yet, to sing his praises in the strain that his real merits require, would be to invite the charge that the writer was either blinded by the bias of personal friendship or carried away by partisan prejudice. To state the really essential things in a few words, and in words neither lukewarm nor so glowing as to cast suspicion upon their accuracy, is hard indeed. Yet some one must make the attempt, and if he who has been asked to do so proves unequal to the task, it will not be because he lacks interest in his theme. It is doubtless true that Woodrow Wilson, being mortal, has his faults. If we may trust the opinions of the New Jersey machine politicians, he has nothing else. But, if so, it must be said soberly and deliberately that the writer fwho knew him intimately as a student at' the University and has kept in touch with him for more than thirty-three yearsl, has not been able to discover what these faults were. Lest this article should seem like a one-