New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-23
PRINCETON DELEGATES
CLEVELAND TOWER
Hibben Accepts Memorial to
Late President and New
Graduate College.
TAFT ORATOR OF DAY
Other Speeches Made by Repre-
sentatives from Oxford, Cam
bridge and Universities of
Berlin and Paris.

Princeton. y. J.. oct 22.-Princeton
University's Graduate College and the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower were
dedicated to-day in the presence of dis
tinguished company Of American and
European scholars. The new college will
enable Princeton TO house all its gradu-
ate students in body.
The exercises were held in the quad
rangle Of the Graduate College. DR.. John
Grier Hibben. president of Princeton, pre-
sided. and ex-President William Howard
Taft made the Cleveland memorial ad-
dress.
Mrs Thomas Jcx Preston, formerly
Mrs Grover Cleveland. and her children
were among the guests. At the close OF
the exercises Richard Cleveland. a son Of
the former President unfurled flag that
had floated over the White House during
the second administration of Grover Cleve-
land.
In addition to the delegates from other
colleges, including many men whose names
are familiar in the world of letters, Abbot
Gasquet. head of the Benedictine Order
in England and August B. Leguia, former
President Of Peru. were among those
present
After the academic procession in eight
divisions Ralph Adams Cram the archi-
tect of the new buildings, delivered the
keys to NJ Taylor Pyne. chairman OF the
trustees committee of the Graduate
College DIR. Francis Landey Patton, ex-
president Of the university. then made the
dedicatory invocation. After DR.. Patton's
prayer Andrew Fleming West, dean of the
Graduate College, made an address on
The Household Of knowledge" He well
coined the representatives of oxford Cam
bridge. Paris and Berlin. and outlined the
ideals Of the Princeton Graduate College.
Prominent Men from Abroad.
Addresses Of welcome by the visiting
delegates. who were introduced by DR..
Hibben then followed. The speakers IN
their order were Professor Alos Riehl, OF
the University Of Berlin; DR.. Arthur
Shipley, master Of Christ College, Cam
bridge University; Arthur Denis Cooley,
fellow Of Magdalen College. oxford Uni
versity: Professor Emile Boutroux, hon
orary president of the University of Paris,
and DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler president
Of Columbia University.
'In the halls Of this college, said Pro-
lessor Riehl, youthful savants and disci-
pies in the most diverse paths Of learning
will live common life. They should also
come to understand each other and escape
the bias and the limitations that speciali-
cation brings"
Dr. Shipley traced the influence which
Christ College had exerted on the early
American universities. Mr.. Cooley com
mented on the effect which the Rhodes
scholarships had exerted in binding the
students Of this country and England
more closely together. Professor Bou-
troux traced an analogy between the
Princeton Graduate College and the Ecole
Normale Superieure and the Foundation OF
THEIRS.
Dr. Butler spoke Of the need OF recruits
for the army of intellectual life. The
world is crying out for distinction he
said. "The levelling process has been car
ried so far that the proportion OF those
who are able TO serve and TO guide their
fellows with unusual competence grows
steadily less. We have need Of schools
Of distinction"
Richard V. Lindabury. president OF the
Cleveland Monument Association. present
cd the Cleveland Memorial Tower to the
university. ITO the people OF this coun-
fry" ne said "Mr Cleveland stood as
the embodiment Of sound judgment,
rugged strength and common honesty"
Grafton by Professor Taft.
-,aa 5rier Hbben. president of Prince
ton University, accepted the tower on
behalf Of the university. William How
ard Taft ex-President of the United
States. then delivered a memorial address
o., Grover Cleveland" Professor Tafts
estimate of Cleveland was in part as
follows:
Mr. Cleveland was not a great law
Yer: he was not great economist; he
was not great orator. but he was
great President and a great man; and
he was these because with a strong mind,
clear intelligence and wide knowledge Of
AUdiF ne iittN NAlS NA'e'i e'NNN'' 'iO'AN'N''
courage and sense of public duty which
enabled him 10 meet great and critical
issues. When he was nominated for the
third time for the Presidency, he was
nominated against the will Of the poll
ticians, and by a popular uprising in the
ranks Of the party.
He was a partisan, and he believed In
parties. as every one must who wishes
popular government TO succeed; but he
looked upon party as an instrument Of
good government and when II was made
an instrument 10 accomplish purposes
disastrous to the public veal he refused
to follow II.
His fight for a revenue tariff. which
he believed in. his fight for the repeal
of the Sherman law, his fight for the
maintenance of national law and order
in the Debs rebellion. his fight for arbi-
tration among the nations in the Ven
ezuelan matter. all revealed the strength
Of the man, the courage OF his convic-
ton, the willingness TO assume any bur
den in fighting what he thought were the
battles Of his country, and enshrined him
in the hearts of his countrymen as a wise.
brave consistent man and real public
servant"
committee OF the federation of