New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-12
With Anniversary of Ceveands Memorial Fund Rounds Out
-, nav of Great Latter Day Democrat Falls This Week
and Almost Considerably the Completed Plans for
Graduate College and cleveland Tower" at
Princeton Are Made Public

r is plain. solid. straight and
I" square like the man.
Il 60 1udsou Harmon, Governor
ohio describes the stone tower which
Of ,.-.-+,v % be built at Princeton for
-leveland's memorial He speaks
O, ~, ,rs,ice. Yet ne might Justly have
80 word for the seriousness Of
al ..,,5inr which in spite of its massive
-. marks the tower, a graciousness
-. ~ was not without its counterpart
" .,e ~, os the great latter day Demo-
crat ,.-.,.,.
-,rs+ now be said. the anniversary Of
c,...i,,d.s birth. AZ that time will be
.,,,roed the completion Of the fund
$50 ny nationwide subscription for
~ b,r8,nr % his monument. As soon as
.ossfble thereafter. within two weeks at
-. latest The group Of distinguished
-, who serve as its trustees viii meet
=, rird uD the affairs Of subscription
.-6 collection and to arrange for the
.-.,a1 vo~, cs building. Ground will
:. broken with the opening OF spring
al before the year is out the tower,
u.,.p the noble group of college buildings
--r..b are % cluster at its foot, will be
,r.n m toward completion. All twill be
e-,sps5 before second collegh year
begins 80,
IN more ways than one the tower will
.,-ras- The life Of Grover Cleveland.
:. will be au strength and plainness at
=. base rising to greater richness at
.se ION. a conscious reference to the
ats NJ the mans experience. There is
. certain arse and striking fitness in
re fact that it is the Princeton Gradu-
ga coreea "the fullest flower OF our
university life" as its founders call il.
-si,b will be eraced with the memory
this man. Of the deepest learning and
..s finest culture. who yet sat in no
,,rsqe but that Of hard work and knew
~ graduate studies but those Of the
Great university Of American life.
A DOMINATING ORNAMENT.
Sanding on the very crest Of the roll
,,y Princeton hills. at some distance
4,or, the centre Of the campus. the
,,-rsr will be seen from far. II VIII be
,bA most commanding object seen from
,tA windows Of passing trains on the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. three miles
srav Like the quadrangle Of buildings
e, lie foot. IL will be built of silver gray
Stone. from the neighborins hillsides'
--.s winter limestone about the win
6,rs and spires II will be forty leet
so,s-a ar the base and To- feet in height
The design suggests the towers OF a
hundred English colleges and churches
-a- i- &c no CODY. Four turrets at the
corners rise unbroken from the base ana
end in four gothic spires. a great pei
chamber where chimes may one day be
tr7r orc-r.es the upper part OF the
main shaft. with three lofty mullioned
window openings on each side. The
floors beneath will house a collection OF
Cleveland relics. in the ground foor' /
facing the entrance. VIII be placed
statue of the former President seated I'm
his chair.
The tower viii stand az the southeast
corner # the Graduate College quadran-
e,e. looking east toward the buildings Of
The university campus. j win have
,srarata entrance from outside the
ovadrarea and other entrances from
within. The cost win ho 100000
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he tour ,-.ry % them smoke Of his
friendliuess Tor the university how
pleasantly they remembered his lectures
there and bow they had liked the genial
half tolerant half comradely readiness
VIII which he made speeches. lor ue'li'-
Gus nler'sairted. torcnoearihs II''rS
Sons after every football victory.
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