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This person used the pen name Edward Coppleston to write “The World and John Hart” while privately despising teaching women at Bryn Mawr. This person critiqued the “sparing use of history” present in James Bryce’s The American Commonwealth in one of many reviews contributed to Political Science Quarterly. (10[1])This person wrote a popular textbook on the “elements of historical and practical politics” titled The State. Shortly after replacing Francis Landey Patton, this person implemented a “preceptorial” class format. This person created an organization headed by a Colorado senator that employed “Four Minute Men” to influence (-5[1])public opinion. (10[1]-5[6])A group (-5[1])of academics called “The Inquiry” (-5[1])crafted (10[1])an “idealism” named for this person, (10[1])the onetime (10[1])head of Princeton, (10[1])to include (10[1])the tenet of self-determination. (10[4])For 10 points, name this (10[1])president who issued the “Fourteen Points” (10[1])during World War I. (10[3])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Woodrow Wilson [or Thomas Woodrow Wilson]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%43%120.76

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Alex PijanowskiPurdue AYale B4710
Walter ZhangBrown ANorthwestern A94-5
Charles HangWUSTL ASouth Carolina A96-5
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AMIT A96-5
Albert ZhangColumbia BIndiana A9610
Amogh KulkarniChicago BJohns Hopkins A96-5
Aiden DartleyRutgers AVanderbilt A96-5
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A96-5
Chris RayOhio State AYale A96-5
Matt JacksonChicago APenn A98-5
Sean DoyleHouston AMinnesota A103-5
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AImperial A10410
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B11010
Robert CondronChicago CDuke A11210
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AMaryland A11510
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AChicago B11710
Todd MaslykMichigan AIllinois A12110
John John GrogerColumbia AUC Berkeley B12110
David BassVirginia ACornell A12110
Brad MacLaineTexas AWUSTL B12110
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AIowa State A12610
Yared TadesseCornell BNYU A13210
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AChicago A13610
Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern ABrown A13610
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AOhio State A13610
Joel MilesMinnesota AHouston A13710
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AFlorida A13710
Ricky LiMIT AGeorgia Tech A13710
Aidan FeinVanderbilt ARutgers A13710
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AWUSTL A13710