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Acknowledgments Since Gutenberg, the making of books has been a collective enterprise, and this one is no exception. It began with the close collaboration of John Milton Cooper Jr., who proposed a conference, initially at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia, to focus on Wilson’s educational ideas and legacy. But John and I soon decided that Princeton University was a more appropriate and accessible setting. After we selected the nine principals, we chose three experts to discuss ‘‘Woodrow Wilson in Princeton Today.’’ W. Barksdale Maynard, Edward Tenner, and Princeton Archivist Daniel J. Linke each made memorable and spirited contributions to the conference proceedings. The conference at Princeton on October 16–17, 2009, would not have been possible without the generous and cheerful assistance of four people. Before she left for the State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter, then dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International A√airs, agreed to host and underwrite our gathering in beautiful Robertson Hall, designed by the architect Minoru Yamasaki. Professor Stanley Katz was instrumental in making our case to her. Karyn Olsen, the school’s manager of communications, handsomely designed all of our ads and publicity. And Professor Katz’s ace assistant, Mindy Weinberg, managed every detail of planning and execution with consummate grace and e≈ciency. We are sincerely grateful to them all. The conference was and the resulting book is equally beholden, as are all students of Wilson, to Arthur Link’s 69-volume Papers of Woodrow Wilson, published by Princeton University Press. This model of documen- x Acknowledgments tary editing not only inspired our collective researches but also made our work much easier and extremely pleasant. By the same token, we are grateful to Princeton for other courtesies. President Shirley Tilghman opened the conference with an articulate and heartfelt appreciation of Wilson’s impact on the university she now leads. The frontispiece photograph of her historic predecessor was provided by the University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections , Princeton University Library. I am personally grateful to the Princeton Department of History and to Associate Dean of the College Peter Quimby for allowing me to teach a graduate seminar and a freshman seminar on the history of Princeton during the semester the conference was held. Finally, we would have no book had editor Richard Holway, the University of Virginia Press, and two anonymous readers not believed in its scholarly merit. That Woodrow Wilson was born just down the road in Staunton and attended UVA’s law school makes its publication in Charlottesville all the more appropriate and satisfying. We are also grateful for the careful editing, design, and production of the book provided by the Press, just as we are to Nadine Zimmerli for technical assistance in the manuscript’s preparation and to Jacqueline Kinghorn Brown for eagleeyed copyediting. [3.92.130.77] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:55 GMT) The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson ...