Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-22
Speaks at Dedication Of
Graduate College and
Memorial Tower.
FAMOUS EDUCATORS
FROM ABROAD ATTEND
Gifts Of $2,S5o,O00 Have Made
New Features Possible-Honor.
airy Degrees Conferred.

: PRINCETON. ~. J.. October 22.-Prince-
(. ton University's graduate college and the
Grover Cleveland memorial tower, which
Is included in the architectural scheme
of the college buildings. were dedicated
, today I'm the presence OF a distinguished
company OF learned men from Europe
and American Gifts amounting to $500
co for the erection and endowment of
the college enabled Princeton to realize
an idea conceived twenty years ago-the
housing OF graduate students in a body.
The tower was presented to the university
by the Cleveland Monument Association,
which received gifts for the memorial
fund from all over the United States
! The exercises were held In the quad
rangIe formed by the walls of the gradu-
ate college, a quarter of a mile south
west OF the main campus. President Hib-
ben of PRINCETON presided, and about him
, were former President William H. Taft
who delivered the memorial address on
Grover Cleveland: representatives Of prac-
tically all the universities and colleges In
the United States anad Canada, hundreds
of alumni. and delegates from English,
German and French universities.
Taft Lauds Cleveland.
Former President Taft's estimate of
Grover Cleveland as expressed In his
grafton. was as follows:
Mr.. Cleve and was not great lawyer
he was not great economist; he was
not great orator, but he was great
President and great man. and he was
these because of the strong mind clear
intelligence and wide knowledge of at
. fairs. He had the cha. acter. honesty.
courage and sense of pub ic duty. which
enabled him to meet great and critical
ssues " thout regard to personal conse-
quences. When he was nominated for
the tn ri time for the presidency he was
nominated against the will of the politi-
clans and by popular uprising in the
ranks OF the party. He was q partisan.
and believed IN part es as every one must
who wishes popular government to sue
coed. but he looked upon party as an
instrument of good government and
compiish purposes disastrous to the pub
lie veal he refused to follow 1t. The
party left him to embrace new doctrines
whose support properly subjected Ii tn
popular distrust which kept 1t out of
power for three successive presidential
terms.
Emerged a Great Figure.
when he left the White House the
ness of the enmity and open attack upon
aim by his former party associates YOU'D
overwheim him, and that his leaving Of
ice without a party was a humiliation
hard to tear. But as years wore on, IN
his dignified ret rement, In the great
benefit he wrought for this eat uni
versity, and IN the wide influence for
good he exercised in the country. the
whole public began to perceive with
clearness the except onal qualities of the
men which had shown fortn in crise /;
during his presidency. Now that the
voice of the partisan critic is still. and
the people could see him due proper
the place he earned among the men en-
titled to the gratitude of their coun-
try"
Dean West Speaks.
After the keys of the college had been
delivered by the architect to the t-us-
tees, Dean Andrew F.. West of the gradu-
ate college. to whom most of the credit
has b.en given for the erection Of the
college. delivered an address on The
Household of knowledge" H., spoke Of
the benefits of graduate study, and in
the course of his address he said:
There are obsta6 les to the accomplish
ment of our work, and they are also the
tSaSV1is WHY the Wofh uiuSt De accom-
plished Graduate liberal studies ought TO
set a standard for all other graduate
studies in our land. Yet In the Judgment
Of those who may be presumed to know
they are plainly in less satisfactory con-
aition than work done In the Fbetter
schools of law and medicine They have
been prosecuted with sincerity and energy.
but too often without vision. Their tone
and quality have been married by a scat
tering and unct rtai3 preliminary school,
ng, by mediocrity of mind, by the worship