Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-06-24
Robinson Memorial Gateway

The Robinson Memorial Gateway
Is primarily q Buwdun produce. con-
celved and designed on me spot with
particular attention 10 its place on
the campus n relation 10 the other
buildings.
The ma1erlals selected. brick ana
limestone. are similar TO those used
IN the neignbnring Hubbard Hail
and Walker Ar Museum The post
caps are inspired by the Eliza DeInan
finals on Hubbard Eau.~as Cr1ey viii
a. WAYS ne seen IN the background
when the gateway IS viewed from
the corner Of Maine and College
streets.
ne IT-onw0rK Is reminiscent ri Eng
IIsh wrought Irnn II be found on the
ga1ewRvs Of Oxford and Cambridge
ana the design owes much 10 TWO Of
tne LATER Harvard gatewaps. designed
by McAIln. Meade d WhIrs, the ar
crlLacts Of the Walker Al Building
In MS address accepting for the
college President Sills said TO
those Of Us who know the College IN
rIrna1ely ms gift means very much.
With Il are associated TWO hunored
BowdoIn names. the devoted interest
Of the donor, the memory Of d vivid
and beautiful character VINO gave ms
al-np iesE-and whose body rests
fa- from here beneath the heroic
wooden CROSS n France. II al means
much today. but II viii mean more
and more as the veRrs 80 on. Like
other memorials II VIII exert an I'M
told and unconscious influence on
generation after generation Of col
leEe youth VINO viii pass through It's
graceful portal. On the walls Of an
other New England cnllege there is
bronze tablet IN memory Of some
students VINO were killed fighting II
the Revolution. and the inscription
r. the precious line from Horace
DuIce er decDINrn est pro parria NOR
4 few wears ago a young French IN
strucrur al that college passed by
and read the. words, 1T would be
sweet 70 die for France" ne SAID
and IN a Few mu1rns the challenge
came. and like q true son of France
ne left his new home and wife and
children and met death on the field
of honor IN one Of the early engage
ments of the war II may ne thai a
hundred Years from now some Bow
dom youth passing this gate may
look up and read, In Memory Of
Warren Eastman Robinson. 1885,
1918. Bowdnln 10, First Lieutenant Z.
8 ARMY. Second Battle Of the Marine
St Mihiel. Mouse. Argunne. Killed
IN action Il may be that he toe
will think il sweet 70 die for his
Country; and il may be that ne will
enlist in some future war for free
dom under the spell Of the inspira-
ton of the past Berter still il is TO
think that nauv d son Of the COL
iege will see IN this gateway a SYM
MOI indeed of rhe straight and mar
row way that leadeth unto life but
aisn a memorial TO iury simply and
fully done: and the expression not
only Of accomplishment but Of hope
For what Bowdpin men have dome
they can do"
Robert Hale Of Portland. a class
mate and very intimate friend Of
presentation.
IN behalf Of the cnllege the gate
way was accepted by President Ken
meth c. NJ. SiIls-
This was followed by exercises
held at the First Parish Congrega-
-ional church 10 observe the 1Gffth
anniversary of the Bowdpin Medical
school Professor Edward H Wass
rendered a program On the organ.
following which an address was de-
livered by President Kenneth C. NJ
Siflg.
DR.. Addison s. Thayer of Port
land. the dean of the school, deiiv-
cred an historical address.
These exercises were followed by
the presentation Of the play, THE
Merchant Of Venice" on the steps of
the Walker Art Building. by the
Masque and Gown. the Bowdoin
dramatic club
This evening President and Mrs
Kenneth c. Nj. Stills held a reception
NJ Eutotya-d hall ann all rfye ZEN fra