As already noted Page had met the future President when he was serving a journalistic apprenticeship in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wilson was then spending his days in a dingy law office and was putting to good use the time consumed in waiting for the clients who never came by writing that famous book on "Congressional Government" which first lifted his name out of obscurity.

This work, the product of a man of twenty-nine, was perhaps the first searching examination to which the American Congressional system had ever been subjected.

It brought Wilson a professorship at the newly established Bryn Mawr College and drew to him other growing minds like Page's.
"Watch that man!" was Page's admonition to his friends.

Wilson then went into academic work and Page plunged into the exactions of daily and periodical journalism, but Page's papers show that the two men had kept in touch with each other during the succeeding thirty years.