Thomas M. Woodward to Cary T. Grayson
Title
Thomas M. Woodward to Cary T. Grayson
Creator
Woodward, Thomas M.
Identifier
WWP21061
Date
1917 March
Description
Thomas M. Woodward congratulates Cary T. Grayson on his promotion to medical director of the Navy.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My Dear Doctor Grayson,
It was with pleasure that I saw the Senate confirmed your appointment, as medical director of the Navy. There must come a great feeling of satisfaction at the proof of confidence shown by the President in his nomination—for you see he has been a rare judge of men since he first entered upon executive office as President of Princeton, and worked his first revolution in the old College. He has been a revolutionary ever since—in the eyes of the Tories. I remember he used to say that a college was a place to make sons as unlike their fathers as possible—How some of the old boys yelled, those tory grads who only need to be told that a program would work some change, to oppose it. You see that the President is eternally young, and the old boys think he should become fossilized like themselves, and treat office as a sort of a decoration for merit, a place to pass the bath clean stage “otium cum dignate.” It is because Woodrow Wilson has appointed men like you that he has speeded up the machinery of this lumbering old government. With best wishes for a successful administration and many opportunities for service
I am
Thomas M. Woodward
It was with pleasure that I saw the Senate confirmed your appointment, as medical director of the Navy. There must come a great feeling of satisfaction at the proof of confidence shown by the President in his nomination—for you see he has been a rare judge of men since he first entered upon executive office as President of Princeton, and worked his first revolution in the old College. He has been a revolutionary ever since—in the eyes of the Tories. I remember he used to say that a college was a place to make sons as unlike their fathers as possible—How some of the old boys yelled, those tory grads who only need to be told that a program would work some change, to oppose it. You see that the President is eternally young, and the old boys think he should become fossilized like themselves, and treat office as a sort of a decoration for merit, a place to pass the bath clean stage “otium cum dignate.” It is because Woodrow Wilson has appointed men like you that he has speeded up the machinery of this lumbering old government. With best wishes for a successful administration and many opportunities for service
I am
Thomas M. Woodward
Original Format
Letter
To
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Files
Collection
Citation
Woodward, Thomas M., “Thomas M. Woodward to Cary T. Grayson,” 1917 March, WWP21061, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.