Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-23
memorial FOR
FORMER PRESIDENT
Cleveland Monument Asso-
citation Presents Tower to
Princeton College
TAFT PRAISES HIM
Says He Was Not Great LAWYER. But
a Great President and Great
Man.
rAFT PRAISES HIM

OnlVersltys graduate college and the
Grover Cleveland tower were dedicat-
ed here today. Gifts amounting to
$2,S5O,00O for the erection and endow-
ment of the college enabled Princeton
to realize an idea conceived twenty
years ago-the housing of graduate
students in body The tower was
presented to the university by the
Cleveland Monument Association
which received gifts from all over the
United States.
President Hibben of Princeton pre-
sided and about him were William H.
Taft, who delivered the memorial adj
dress on Grover Cleveland; Represen.
tatives of practically all the univer-
stiles and colleges in the United States
and Canada hundreds of alumni and
delegates from English, German and
French universities.
"The Household of knowledge"
Dean A. F. West of the graduate
college to whom most of the credit
has been given for the erection or the
college, delivered an address on "Thc
Household of knowledge" He spoke
of the benefits of graduate study say
ing:
Graduate liberal studies ought tc
set standard for all other gracuate
studies in our land Yet, in the judg-
ment of those who may be presumed
to know, they are plainly in less sat
isfactory condition than work done
in the better schools of law and medi-
cine. They have been prosecuted with
sincerity and energy but too often
without vision. Their tone and quail
ity have been married by a scattering
and uncertain preliminary schooling.
by mediocrity of mind, by the worship
of degrees as means of securing
positions, by the isolation of students
due to an estrangement of support
from general knowledge.
"In some degree the obstacles will
probably always exist and they cannot
be removed merely by opposing them
They can be removed only by replac
ing them with something better
What we are seeking is to be found
in the daily fellowship of kindred
minds of rare promise. generous rival.
ry and high aspirations"
Foreign Representatives
President Hibben introduced the
foreign representatives, who made
congratulatory addresses. They in
cluded DR.. Alois Riehl, recently rector
in the University of Berlin; DR.. Ar
thur Shipley, master of Christ's Col
lege, 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.
The presentation to the university
of the Cleveland memorial tower was
made by Richard V. Lindabury, presl-
dent of the Cleveland Memorial Asso-
citation, who said funds for the memo
rial were contributed from all parts
of the United States.
Testimony to Grover Cleveland
"They desired by their gifts" he
said, ITO testify to their admiration
and respect for those traits OF char
acter which, made Mr. Cleveland the
Efficient foe of municipal corruption
in Buffalo, the fearless and independ-
ent executive in Albany and in Wash
ington, the 4mmoyable defender OF tt
national credit andethe relentless en-
Greer of law or order, without regard
to the persons or classes affected
thereby"
The graduate college buildings in
clude the Pyne tower, which forms
the entrance to the common portions
the college; the great hall used fol
dining purposes; breakfast rooms
comons roms. the quarters OF the
master of the college and the resident
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, but it takes on great richness
o treatment towards. the top. which
is an elaborate scheme of lace-like
pinnacles wored out in stone. In
the lower story OF the tower is
great memorial chamber and opposite
It's entrance is niche for q seated
bronze statue of Grover Cleveland.
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