New-York tribune., 1911-02-03
GRADUATE COLLEGE PLANS
Dean West Tells Princeton Club
of Work to Start Next Spring.
BUILDINGS OF NATIVE STONE
With Lantern Slides Illustrates
What S4,OOO,O0O Available
Will Do for University.

tho princeton AI.NtISt.N Ntlet"' ta'
Gramercy Park. last night, Dean Andrew
+ West told three hundred or more
Princeton alumni something OF the plans
for the new Graduate College work upon
which will he started shortly in princeton
Aggregate funds of between &eDe eo ana
100000. Dean West said, are now available
with which 70 besin the work. This rand
consists of the William Cooper Proctor
fund cf 10000. which was donated outright
recently; the great WCyman hcQuest OF
from s 0ooCo0 20 $4,000. the Swami con
tribution Of S}2Ino0. the Grover CleNe'ani
Memorial Tower fund OF $4,000 ana finally
$4,000 which has been contributed 10y
friends Of the university through the 'i-
forts Of Moses Taylor Pyne. OF the class
OF -
The plans for tho Graduate Colese, Dean
West said. have been drawn by Boston
architects Cram. Goodhue & Ferguson ana
have recently been unanimously approved
by the trustees Of Princeton. The contracts
VIII eau for the completion Of the build
ings. including the Thompson Graduate
COLLEGE. the Proctor Memorial Dinins Han
ana the Cleveland Memorial Tower. boy Sep
tember 1912
IN his address. which was Illustrated with
lantern slides. Dean West told the alumni
that these buildings arc already s;aked out.
They VIII be erected ou the sOf links. ard
the plans viii cause abe relocation ot the
present PENNSYLVANIA Railroad station al
Princeton. Another building or two 50
will be- moved and q bread avenue viii be
laid out lcaGins from the new Graduate
Concgv To- the central campus. The plans
of the buildings proper call for a dormitoiF
of square proportions. two or three stories
N hcight and constructed about quad
raneie This viii ls known a. Thorn son
Collesc and VIII provide accommodations
FOR about one hundred men. The entrance
20 the quadrangle VIII be boy means oi
Gothic arch. and part OF the ground floor
VIII he given up 10 q general commons. 30
the west wing ot this dorm.tory VIII he
added a smaller courtyard. Hanhed lY the
Proctor Memorial Dining Hall, surrounded
by the kitchens and servants quarters.
After fourteen years of planning, SAID
Dean Wet al the hegiun ~ of his ADDRESS
we are ar las, happily I'm Q position to say
that ground will he broken iuis spiins for
he group OF Buildings which is 10 form the
-irst construction ~ the utW Graduate COL
lere and as the spade goes IN the ground
Z will mean not only the rising OF lhe new
COLLEGE. bat the burial o- old controversy.
Three elements cOmpnS- tho graduate
COLLEGE: Fi,st. q Ioay OF professors Of un-
usual eninence and powe- iI their various
subjects: second company OF graduate
students o. hiCl ability. av5. third. tHe
buildings which prov iy thr RESIDENTIAL
home In many ways :, $ a pity mat the
question Of the buildings raS ueeu SO mucl
TO the fore. because it has ubscured the
more important question Of me students
md o. the professors. Nevertheless. the
buildings are an important part OF OBJ"
project We are not propOSine 10 build
hotel. a dormitory. q boarding house or
,lub for graduate students. but quiet
and beautiful academic home, worthy ~
every respect of the dienty of learning
Now word about the huH1iHEs.' Dean
West continued. "Thcy viii consist of tho
residential quadrangle. named Thompson
COLLEGE. the memorial dining hail, given by
William cooper Proctor In memory Of lis
.arpnt-. and tie Grover cleveland Me
mortal Tower. The memorial dining nall
ril he q structure protecting from tho
eorrhwestc~n angle of Thompson College,
and viii De about 100 feet iu length and a.
feet I'm width To viii bo built 10 provide
for the developed Graduate College and
viii. therefore. have maximum seating
capacity o. nearly zoo men. This must L.
done once for al a. TIE start as it would
tc absurd 20 build an aG5iuoual diu'rg
hau each time an additional GroHp Of s-u-
dents IS entered al tho co.le-o OF course.
= is possible 10 Use the dining hau for
other purposes Of intellectual and social
character
"The Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower
viii stand NJ the southeastern corner of
Thompson College. and will he a5ou, % feet
squar, o. the rase and 's7 feet I'm height.
II will no SO placed a. 10 command O most
extensive view. and no memorial TO any
President Of the United states. save only
rhe Washington Monument vin equal this
tower in dignity and beauty
Sreakinc Of the architecture ot tire c1'-
'erc. Dean West sad. Following The
newer traditions Or Princeton. we arc t3I-
inr tho so-caued collegiate Gothic. no
some modified Gothic. lut tho pure per.
rendic1lar type which survives I'm few
beautiful examples IN the English colleges.
Tho buildings viii be constructed Of gray
stone and VIII Be fre~rccf throughout.
The todv Of the stone viii lr OF steel gray
ones. selected from tie Motive ,.ouc of
Princeton and the trim VIZ nc s.lvory
gray in color. The effect Of thi- against
the broad e-ecnswar3 AMI ;h- background
~ forest trees. especially er clear day
with blVe skv overrca o.gh; to ro most
beautiful"