Show WILSON DISASTER if she loses her self possession america will stagger like france through fields of blood before she again finds peace and prosperity under the leadership of men who understand her needs the foregoing is one of the hery flery sentences in a hot speech recently delivered by dr woodrow wilson president of princeton university to the sons of old nassau at a banquet in pittsburg then turning to the subject of churches dr wilson went on to say 1 1 I trust I 1 may be thought among the last to blame the churches yet I 1 feel it my duty to say that they at least the protestant churches are serving the classes and not the masses of the people they have more regard reg ird for pew rents sj than for the mens souls they are depressing the level of christian endeavor it is the same with the universities we look for the support of the wealthy and neglect our opportunities to serve the people the processes to which the college man is subjected do not render him serviceable to the country as a whole it is for this reason that I 1 have dedicated every power in me to a democratic regeneration the american college must become saturated in the same sympathies as the common people the colleges of this country must be reconstructed from the top to the bottom the american people will tolerate nothing that savors of exclusiveness their political parties are going to pieces they are busy with their moral regeneration and they want leaders who can help them tc accomplish it pretty hot talk that for the president of a big educational institution like princeton |