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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

As president, he changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917.

He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.

View the Wikipedia entry for Woodrow Wilson

Read a full transcript of the address he gave at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA on 25 October 1913.

Note that he was addressing undergraduates and that his actual words were “You are not here merely to prepare to make a living.”

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