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Woodrow Wilson's presidency

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's presidency of Princeton. For more about those years, see the story and photos on page 3 regarding a new exhibition at Firestone Library.

 

• Upon taking office as president, Wilson proposed a $12.5 million program to transform Princeton into a full-scale university. It was passed by the Board of Trustees.

• Wilson added 50 young assistant professors, or "preceptors," to the faculty in 1905, doubling the existing faculty almost overnight.

• During Wilson's tenure, Princeton constructed eight new buildings, three for instruction (McCosh and Guyot halls and Palmer Laboratory), four dormitories (1879, Patton, Campbell and Holder halls) and a gymnasium. The University also acquired two prominent monuments, FitzRandolph gateway and the Mather sundial, as well as the Springdale golf links and Lake Carnegie.

• In 1902, Wilson's first year as president of Princeton, annual fees including tuition, room and board ranged from $331 to $665, depending upon where a student lived and boarded. In 1910, his last year, fees ranged from $381.60 to $739.60.

• A total of 1,252 undergraduates and 131 graduate students were enrolled at Princeton at the beginning of the 1902-03 academic year. At the start of the 1907-08 academic year, enrollment had fallen to 1,183 undergraduates and 118 graduate students, due primarily to Wilson's stricter academic standards and discipline. By the beginning of the 1910-11 academic year, enrollment had rebounded to 1,295 undergraduates and 147 graduate students.
 
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April 29, 2002
Vol. 91, No. 25
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Contents

Page one
• Princeton biologists track down central cause of lupus
• Q&A Breidenthal: Reflection should be part of college life

Inside
• Stan Allen selected as dean of School of Architecture
• Forum encourages frank talk about difficult ethical issues
• Exhibition chronicles Wilson from student to professor to president

Sections
• People
• By the numbers
• Nassau Notes
• Calendar of events

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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Steven Schultz
Contributing writers: Marilyn Marks, Evelyn Tu
Photographer: Denise Applewhite
Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor, Megan Peterson
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett