Theodore wanted to attend Harvard in the fall of 1876, but did not have all the preparation necessary

. Nevertheless, he completed three years of college preparation in less than two years. He also passed all of his preliminary exams. He entered Harvard in late September 1876. During the summer of 1877 Theodore published his first work entitled ‘The Summer Bird of the Adirondacks’ in Franklin County, NY. While he was away at college, his father died at the young age of 46 from stomach cancer. Theodore made it home only hours after his father had died. The loss of his father would have a profound effect on Theodore as seen later in his life. Yet, he returned to Harvard the following year, and it was during this time that he met Alice Lee. He fell madly in love with her, and they married on October 27, 1880.

Still, Wilson was hailed as a hero upon his arrival in Europe. At the conference (January-June 1919) Allied leaders Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orlando favored a traditional settlement. Wilson worked tirelessly for a peace along the lines of his Fourteen Points; only his shrewd bargaining prevented even harsher terms from being imposed on Germany. Wilson characterized the Versailles Treaty as the best obtainable compromise and put his hopes in the League of Nations, an integral part of the treaty, as the institution through which inequities could be later rectified. Senate Republicans, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, refused to approve the peace treaty without significant modifications of the U.S. commitment to the League. Wilson accepted some compromise but then turned to the people. In a national speaking tour he eloquently defended the League and U.S. membership as essential to lasting world peace. Long months of exhausting labor had weakened the president, however, and he collapsed on September 25, 1919, following a speech in Pueblo, Colo. A week later Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially incapacitated for the remainder of his life. From his bed he continued to oppose severe restrictions to the League. The Senate, meanwhile, rejected the treaty in November 1919 and March 1920. Wilson urged that the 1920 presidential election be a referendum on the League. Republican Warren G. Harding, who had established a reputation as an opponent of the League, won in a landslide.

What I consider our most similar quality was the desire to give all men freedom, to make everyone had the same chance of success. Black rights, rights for children in the workplace, and several others, were his progressive politics growing with him. He detested war, and would do anything to keep the peace, yet, when the Filipinos revolted soon after we acquired the Islands from the Spanish after the Spanish American War, He remarked how those young American servicemen, who had fought these guerillas, were so brave. He himself wished that he would rather be doing that than whatever he was doing as a professor at that time. He remarked that these young men would rather die in a foxhole fighting for the freedom of the world than packing boxes at a local mart. That feeling of being torn between his beliefs of peace and equal rights and taking action when the Sovereignty of the country was at risk would stay with him throughout his life. He tried so hard to keep us out of World War I, winning the presidency on that platform in 1916. But when the Germans destroyed the Lusitania, he became outraged. Not because 128 Americans had died, but because he felt the Germans were an ungodly people who could even do such a thing. He was hurt personally by their decision of open warfare after feeling he had gotten their word not to hit merchant shipping with their submarine force.

Woodrow Wilson, if you recall, made an impact on me during the course of the semester. I truly feel that I have a lot in common with what he went through in his own mind. Finding out he was a Capricorn, like me, and his real first name being Thomas, only heightened my interest in this man. Even though he was surrounded by Religious teaching and doctrine thr

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