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27 wrz 2002 · Dr. Sayre was a professor of philosophy, a member of the Air Force, and a leader of a daring expedition to Mount Everest in 1962. He was also a chess master, a bridge player, and a descendant of President Woodrow Wilson.
12 wrz 2013 · This article identifies the American philosophical antecedents that informed Woodrow Wilson Sayre's failed attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1962. Sayre, a philosophy professor at Tufts University, was an extreme proponent of individualism and saw the challenge of climbing Everest as a struggle of one man against cold, “antiseptic” Nature.
Jessie Woodrow Sayre (née Wilson; August 28, 1887 – January 15, 1933) was a daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson.
This collection contains the records of Woodrow Wilson Sayre's time as an assistant professor at Tufts University. Most material relates to Sayre's Mount Everest expedition and the controversy of his dismissal from Tufts University in the form of newspaper and magazine clippings and administrative records.
Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, a ruggedly handsome fellow with boyish charm, is President Wilson’s grandson as well as a mountain climber, best-selling author (Four Against Everest), playwright,...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. ... In 1913, Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre Sr., who later served as High Commissioner to the Philippines. [34] In 1914, ...
4 cze 2013 · Wilson was appalled when he discovered that many of the women prisoners had gone on a hunger strike and were being force fed in the prison. He finally stepped in toward the fight for women’s enfranchisement, joining his daughter, leading suffragist Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre.
