Call Number:

MC217

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers

Extent:

1 box

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Henry B. Fine Collection on Woodrow Wilson, Box and Folder Number; Public Policy Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1902-1922 (inclusive)

Creator:

Fine, Henry B. (Henry Burchard), 1858-1928

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century and Typescripts--20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of eleven letters from Woodrow Wilson to Princeton professor Henry B. Fine and other documents related to Wilson.

Henry Burchard Fine (Princeton Class of 1880), the first and only dean of the departments of science, was one of the men who did most to help Princeton develop from a college into a university. He served as an editor of The Princetonian, where he began a life-long friendship with Woodrow Wilson (Princeton Class of 1879). After Woodrow Wilson returned to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence in 1890, he and Fine resumed the close friendship they had begun in college days. In 1903, shortly after he became president of the University, Wilson appointed Fine dean of the faculty of science. After his election as president of the United States, Wilson urged Fine to accept appointment as ambassador to Germany and later as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, but Fine declined both appointments, saying that he preferred to remain at Princeton as a professor of mathematics.

The collection consists of eleven letters from Woodrow Wilson to Henry B. Fine and other documents related to Wilson. The letters were sent from the White House, and are dated October 1916 to July 1922. The documents include Fine's typescripts of "A Narrative of Wilson's Presidency of Princeton University" and "Review of the Controversies in the Administration of President Wilson at Princeton," and a copy of Wilson's article on "The Ideal University."

Arranged by accession number.