The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-22
BELOIT is FIRST IN HIS MEMORY
Cleveland Memorial Tower Is
Dedicated at Princeton.
In the Presence of Many Dis
tinguished Educators.

Princeton, NJ J., Oct. 22.-Princetor
university 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,S50,00O for the cree
! ton and endowment of the college
enabled Princeton to realize an idea
| conceived 20 years ago-the housing
| of graduate students in a body
The tower was presented to the uni
versity by the Cleveland Monument
the memorial fund from all over the
United States. The exercises were
held in the quadrangle formed by the
4 walls of the graduate college quarter
OF a mile southwest of the main
campus. President Hibben of Prince
| ton presided and about him were for
mer President William H. Taft, who
delivered the memorial address on
Grover Cleveland; representatives of
practically all the universities and col
leges in the United States and Canada,
hundreds of alumni and delegates
from English, German and French
college had been delivered by the
architect to the trustees, Dean Andrew
F. West Of the graduate college, to
whom most of the credit has been
given IOr the erection OIL the college,,
delivered an address on the House
hold of knowledge" speaking of the
benefits of graduate study.
Congratulatory addresses were
made by DR.. Alois Riehl, recently rec
tor in the University of Berlin; DR..
Arthur Shipley, master of Christ col
lege University of Cambridge; Dr.
Arthur Dennis Cooley, public orator
Emile Boutroux, honorary professor
in the University of Paris, Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
university, also delivered an address.
The Cleveland Memorial.
The presentation to the university
made by Richard V. Lindabury, presi-
dent of the Cleveland Monument as
ISOLATION, who said the funds for the
memorial were contributed by men of
all parties and in all walks and condl-
tions of life.
They desired by their gifts" he
said, ito testify to their admiration
and respect for those traits of charac-
ter which made Mr.. Cleveland the effi-
cient foe of municipal corruption in
Buffalo. the fearless and independent
executive in Albany and in Washing
ton, the immovable defender of the ma
tionaI credit and the relentless enforc-
er of law and order without regard to
the persons or classes affected thereby.
ITO the people of this country Mr..
Cleveland stood as the embodiment OF
sound Judgment, rugged strength and
common honesty. His character is
well typified by this tower erected to
his memory, for like it he stood four
square to all the winds that blew
President Hihben in a brief address
accepted the memorial on behalf of
the university, after which Prof. VIM.
H. Taft delivered a memorial address
on Grover Cleveland.
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 tho
tower is simple and without ornament,
but it takes on a greater richness of
treatment towards the top, which is an
ella borate scheme of lace-like pinnacles
worked out in stone. In the lower |
story of the tower is a great memorial
chamber and opposite it's entrance is |
a niche for a seated bronze statue of |
Grover Cleveland. Above the niche is |
Mr.. Cleveland's famous dictum Public |
office is public trust
Taft's Estimate of Cleveland.
Former President Taft's estimate of |
Grover Cleveland as expressed in his !
grafton was as follows:
Mr. Cleveland was not a great law
yer: he was not a great economist; he |
was not a great orator; but he was a |
great president and a great man; and |
he was these because of the strong |
mind, clear intelligence and wide know
ledge of affairs. He had the charac |
ter, honesty, courage and sense Of pub
lie duty which enabled him to meet |
great and critical issues without re-
gard to personal consequences.
when he was nominated for the
third time for the presidency he was
nominated against the will of the poll
and by a popular uprising in
The ranks Of the party. He was par
-isan and believed in parties as every
one must who wishes popular govern
nent to succeed but he looked upon
party as an instrument of good gov
and when it was made an in
strument to accomplish purposes, disas-
-rous to the public veal, he refused to
follow it. The party left him to en-
brace new doctrines whose support pro-
7erly subjected it to popular dis
rust which kept it out of power for
-hree successive presidential terms
When he left the White House the
asst time it would seem that the bit
erness of the enmity and open attack /
1pon him by his formerly party associ-
ites would overwhelm him and that his
eaving office without a party was a
1umll1at1on hard to bear But as years
wore on in his dignifed- retirement, in
he great benefit he wrought for this
great university and in the wide in
1uence for good he exercised in the
country, the whole public began to per-
'eive with clearness the exceptional
Qualities of the man, which had shown
orth in crises during his presidency
Now that the voice of the partisan
rites is still and the people could see
linn in due proportion with other men
II history, he took the place he earned
lmong the men entitled to the graft
ude of their country
At the close of the exercises Rich
ira cleveland, son of the former
PRESIDENT released flag that had
loated over the White House during
he second administration of Mr..
Cleveland. A picture of Mr.. Cleveland