1. the Biography of the author.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856-February 3, 1924) is the father of pa, because he wrote the first essay on pa in American history in 1887. At that time, pa had been a well-established discipline in Europe, but was largely unknown in American. He is better known as the 28th president of the USA (1913-1921) father of the League of Nations, Commander-in-chief during world war one. He was born in Virginia (a state of the eastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean), to parents of a predominantly Scottish heritage. Since his father was a Presbyterian (??????) minister and his mother the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Woodrow was raised in a pious and academic household. He spent a year at Davidson College in North Carolina and three at Princeton University where he received a bachelor degree in 1879.
After graduating from the Law School of the University of Virginia, he practiced law for a year in Georgia, but it was a feeble practice. He entered graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1883 and three years later received the doctorate. In 1885 he published Congressional Government, a splendid piece of scholarship which analyzes the difficulties arising from the separation of the legislative and executive powers in the American Constitution.
Before joining the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of jurisprudence (the science of law) and political economy, Wilson taught for three years at Bryn Mawr College and for two years at Wesleyan(?????) College. He was enormously successful as a lecturer and productive or fertile as a scholar.
As president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, Wilson became widely known for his ideas on reforming education. In pursuit of his idealized intellectual life fo ...