The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-06
CAR NEGIE PRESENTS A LAKE.
PRINCETON ACCEPTS WITH DUE
CEREMONY AND CHEERS.
The Loeb Bladder OF SkibO AdmOnishes
students OH Football and Tells Them
How Nice Rowing Is-A simple Spell
ting INSTRUMENTATION Opens Lake.

tIt LdlTl VI DhlDo, was luS kTctNilkt ClU-
hlazoned in letters of shoe backing a FOO
high. which the Princeton students of cred
10 Andrew Carnegie to-day when he came
down to the college to give them a brand
new lake.
The simple banner hung, weighted by
two hockey sticks, over the arohway APP
proach to Blair Hall in front of the railroad
station. Just before he passed under
the device Mr.. Carnegie raised his eyes
and caught the import of the lettering.
He nudgei President Woodrow Wilson
in the ribs and chuckled outright while
the Students assembled at the entrance
to the college grounds cheered their own
joke uproariously.
We are all under the Carnegie spell to-
day" said Richard Watson Glider. But he
didn't say it loud enough for the students
to hear or they would rave cheered again.
Mr.. Carnegie, Mrs. Carnegie and about
fifty chosen friends left the Pennsylvania
depot in Jersey City at GAS O'Clock yester-
day morning on a special train of three cars
They were all going down to see the latest
addition 10 the Princeton campus, Loeb
Carnegie. which fills in almost four miles
of what was once marsh, and which cost
$500 900 to build. The iron master brought
with him the deeds 10 the property the lake
covered TO give over to President Wilson.
When the train drew into the station in
front of Blair Hall there was a crowd of
about 800 Students massed against the gray
castellatsd wall of the building. Presi-
dent Wilson was down at the train to es-
cort Mr.. Carnegie up to Alexander Hall,
Dean Fine doing a like service for Mrs.
Carnegie. When the four approached the
gate a young man stepped forward from
the crowd and said: Its the yell, boys.
Are you ready? One, two, three"
Then the students gave the Laird Of Skibo
a tiger for his lake.
The exercises marking the formal turn
ing over of the lake to the university took
place in Alexander Hall. While the men,
bers of the faculty were putting on their
robes in an adjoining anteroom the stu
dents, who had banked themselves in the
crescent of gallery seats, practised a song
10 the tune of ~Tammany" which asserted
more or less Theoretically that Andy" had
been building a lake and that you could hear
the breakers break.
The procession of faculty then fled in,
with full academic dignity OF gown and
hood. Mr.. Carnegie, wearing the purple
banded hood Of st. Andrews, Scotland,
walked in the lead with the president of
Princeton. The students gave several
more cheers and sang the song about
Andy" very much to the delight Of the
honored guest.
President Wilson introduced Mr.. Carnegie
without formality. Mr.. Carnegie stepped
briskly forward, leaving his manuscript
on the table behind him. He began:
1T was inevitable that Princeton should
attract a born Scot and loyal American. Prince
ton is both these in a sense. and to this day
IL has not belied its origin. When the time
came for the colonies to stand for British
liberties Princeton emerged from obscurity
and under that typical Scot DR.. Wither-
spoon il achieved a unique distinction as
being. 80 it Ia claimed. the university most
faithful to the republic.
When loud cheering from the students
in the gallery greeted this remark, the
. Laird evidently became canny of saying
anything at which other universities might
take umbrage, 80 he corrected himself.
AT least, other people besides myself
have made this assertion" said he hastily A.,
and a broad smile played about the lips
of President Wilson.
The ironmaster continued to sketch
the part Princeton had played in the aft fairs
of the nation in the Revolution, adding
more laurels to the name of his ~favorite
academicansA W~itherspoon and Wilson.
He made nm nAst big hit with the students
by saying:
IF my parents could rave given me a
college education l ave no doubt but that
they would have sent me to Princeton,
Rnd l should have Endorsed the selection. +"
Then he said:
Well do i remember the first charming visit
made here with Howard Russell Butler, when
had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Cleveland,
Mr.. Cleveland being unfortunately absent.
The beauty Of the situation. the unusually
Tine buildings and the whole atmosphere
Of the seat of learning made a deep impress
Zion on me. Mrs. Carnegie ard l con-
eidered for a time whether we should follow
The wise example Of our first citizen. Mr..
cleveland. and settle here that we might enjoy
the society of learned men.
Mr.. Carnegie told how the pressing need
Princeton had of a lake, which should
cover the ~unsightly marsh that stretched
around n side OF h college grounds,
had been suggested to him. when Mr..
Butler said to me, What we need here is a
lake, but we have nobody to build it for
us ! simply said, Humph.'" Here tho
Scotchman wrinkled up his brows and as
fumed a severe air. The audience laughed.
He added:
But I had been in the lake building busf-
hess-I mean loch building. for | must not
forget that / am a Scotchman-I had just
built a lake around my castle at Skibo and
ny practiced eye aught the opportunity
for a lake here: Here was Princeton. Scotch
10 the core; here were the students. anxious
for a loch 10 row in; there was I "A loch builder.
Nothing simpler, the loch had to be built;
that was all there was to it.
We have heard and are still 10 hear. | fancy.
much in regard to athletic sports in our
educational institutions, where young blood
must be kept in order through physical energy
as a means of expelling youthful energy.
But sport should be educatIve. | fear the
intense go Of the young. the middle aged,
oven of the old Americans developed in our
stimulating air. renders this lesson difficult
in one at least of its forms.
What the use of playing unless we win"
IL too apt TO be the spirit in which we struggle
Now the advantages Of playing are regardless
of who wins or loses. Proper physical exer-
else is, like virtue, its own reward. and both
winners and losers must be equally benefited.
Now. you play football. Idon't know what
kind OF a game football is: I have seen pictures
OF games in the papers occasionally. These
pictures represent a pile of educated young
college men with arms and legs sticking out
st all angles.
We hear a great deal about trusts and COM
binatiOns in these days. but what | hear about
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