ABSTRACT
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was fifty-one years old; an ugly, unhealthy, "intense" Presbyterian, who had little interest in women and none in food, wine, music, art or sport, but enormous interest in speaking, in himself, in his career and in God. Wilson, seeking mental and physical health, bicycled through southern Scotland to the English Lake Country. Grover Cleveland, twenty-second President of the United States, the most distinguished of the Trustees of Princeton, died while Wilson was on his way to Scotland. In the address which Wilson delivered on his return to the university in the autumn he did not refer to Cleveland's death, and, contrary to Princeton custom, he ordered no memorial service for Cleveland. West countered by the precise maneuver which Wilson had attempted. The Trustees, fearing Wilson's possible speeches, wishing to keep him at Princeton and desiring most intensely to accept the million dollars for the Graduate College, tried to arrange various compromises.
