When Isaac Wyman ’1848 died in May 1910, he left his entire estate to Princeton’s graduate program and named Dean of the Graduate School Andrew West ’1874 as one of two executors.  Estimated at $3 million, though actually totaling just under $800,000, this money became West’s trump card in his battle with President Woodrow Wilson ’1879 over the location of the graduate school.  Wilson wanted graduate students to live and work in the middle of the campus, but West insisted that these advanced scholars enjoy a more cloistered existence on a site across the Springdale golf course.  When news of Wyman’s bequest reached Wilson, he is said to have remarked, “We can’t fight the dead.”  Wilson soon resigned the Princeton presidency to begin his political career.

• To learn more about the Graduate School, see quotation #3, 28, and 33, and Café Vivian picture #44, and 53.
  
  
• To learn more about Andrew West, see Café Vivian picture #86.
  
  
• To learn more about Woodrow Wilson, see quotation #33 and Café Vivian picture #3, 34, 42, 54, 84, 95, 101, and 104.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton University presidents, see quotation #9, 11, 33, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #33, 40, 95, 98, 113, 122, and 125.
  
  
• To learn more about campus grounds and buildings, see icon #1, 5, and 8, quotation #5, 7, 9, 28, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 33, 37, 40, 46, 48, 54, 58, 61, 62, 67, 68, 71, 78, 85, 87, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 108, 109, 111, 118, 124, 127, and 133.

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