History
Lucy Maynard Salmon, one of Wilson’s graduate students and later one of Vassar’s most distinguished professors, wrote scathingly of his narrow-minded attitude toward women. Before Salmon arrived at Bryn Mawr, Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams had warned her not to expect much of Wilson: “Indeed I shall be very much surprised if you find he knows nearly so much history as you do; but if you remember that it is more blessed to give than to receive you will have no reason to be unhappy.”