Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-23
Grover Cleveland Memorial
Tower at Princeton.
Distinguished Men Of Europe
And America Present.
4 Testimony to Admiration and Re.
spect Of Late President.

Princeton, n. J., oct. 22.-Princeton
tniversity's graduate college and the
Grover Cleveland Memorial tower,
which is included in the architectural
scheme Of the college buildings, were
dedicated, today. in the presence of
a distinguished company of learned
men from Europe and America. Gifts
amounting to $2.S5o,oe0 for the cree
tion and endowment of the college
enabled Princeton to realize an idea
conceived 20 yeas ago-the housing
of graduate students in body The
tower was presented to the University
by the Cleveland Monument Associa
ton
The exercises were held in the
quadrangle formed by the walls of the
graduate college. a quarter of mile
southwest of the main campus. Pres
ident Hibben of Princeton presided and
about him were Former President
William III. Taft. who delivered the
memorial address on Grover Cleve-
land. representatives of practically
all the universities and colleges in
the United States and Canada, hun
dreds of alumni, and delegates from
English, German and French univer-
Stiles
Former President Taft's estimate of
Grover Cleveland as expressed in his
oration was as follows:
Mr.. Cleveland vas not a great
lawyer; he was not a great econom-
he was a great President and great
e 4 ae
strong mind, clear intelligence and
wide knowledge of affairs. He had
the character honesty courage and
sense of public duty which enabled
him to meet great and critical issues
without regard 70 personal conse-
quences.
When he left the White House the
last time it would seem that the Bit
terness of the enmity and open at
tack upon him by his former party
associates would eyerwhelm him and
that his leaving office without a par
ty was a humiliation hard to bear.
But as years wore on, in his dignified
retirement, in the great benefit he
wrought for this great university and
in the wide influence for good he ex-
ercised in the country, the whole pub
lie began to perceive with elearness
the exceptional qualities of the man
whcih had sown forth in erisises dur
ing his presidency
After the keys of the college had
been delivered by the architect to
the trustees. Dean Andrew +. West.
of the graduate college. to whom most
of the credit has been given for the
erection of the college. delivered an
address on The Household of knowl-
edge" He spoke of the benefits of
graduate study.
President Hibben introduced the
foreign representatives. who made
congratulatory addresses. They in
cluded Dr. Alois Refill recently rec
tor in the University of Berlin: DR..
Arthur I. Shipley, master of Christ
College, University of Cambridge, Dr.
Arthur Denis Cooley public orator in
the University of oxford, and DR.. Emil
e. Boutroux. honorary professor in
the University of Paris. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity, also delivered an address of
congratulation.
The presentation to the University
of Cleveland memorial tower was
made by Richard Y. Lindabury, pres
dent of the monument association
who said the funds for the memorial
We're contributed from all parts of the
United States and by men of all par
ties and in all walks and conditions
of life.
President Hbben, in brief ad-
dress, accepted the memorial on be-
half of the University, after which
Professor William III. Taft delivered
a memorial address on Grover Cleve-
land. The graduate college buildings
include the Pyne tower. which forms
the entrance to the common portions
OF the college, the great hall used
for dining purposes, breakfast rooms.
common rooms, the quarters of the
master of the college and the resi-
dent buildings of the students.
The Cleveland tower stands in the
southeast corner Of the quadrangle
group and is Gothic in style as are
all the other buildings. The base of
the tower is simple and without orna-
ment, bat it takes on greater rich
ness of treatment towards the top,
which is an elaborate scheme OF lace
like pinnaeles worked out in stone. In
the lower story of the tower is q great
memorial chamber and opposite it's en-
trance is a niche for the seated bronze
statue Of Grover Cleveland. Above
the niche is Mr.. Cleveland's famous
dictum. Public office is public
trust"
At the close of the exercises, Rich
ard Cleveland. son of the former
President, released to the wind flag
which fioated over the White House
during the second administration OF
Mr.. Cleveland. A picture of Mr.. Cleve-
land hanging in one of the halls of
the graduate college was draped with
the flag which covered his casket.