hensible to most people and that he, Fine, had once asked him whether 

 he could not concede something in this matter. He replied: "Harry, you 

 are asking me to give up my whole case." He attributed the utmost 

 importance to having the Graduate College in close touch with under- 

 graduate life as a stimulus and a leaven in elevating the intellectual tone 

 among Princeton undergraduates, for which he worked so hard. 



This idea is clearly expressed in the prefatory note which Mr. Wilson 

 wrote for Dean West's book on The Proposed Graduate College and it 

 is the failure to comprehend this, which has made so many people 

 misjudge Mr. Wilson in this matter. Some have accused him of senseless 

 obstinacy, on the one hand, and of breaking his promises to Dean West, 

 on the other, but neither accusation is justified. I can't agree with him in 

 the importance which he attributed to the neighbourhood of the Gradu- 

 ate College as a means of elevating undergraduate sentiment. He with- 

 drew his opposition to the golf links site because of the entirely new 

 situation created by the Wyman bequest. That site is a compromise, 

 perhaps the best that could have been found. The distance of the College 

 from the laboratories and lecture-rooms is undoubtedly a drawback, but 

 the necessary room for expansion could not have been had in a less 

 remote site. 



Mr. Cleveland died in June 1908 and was given a semipublic funeral. 

 President Roosevelt coming on from Washington and the Essex Troop 

 of Cavalry acting as escort. The sincere and spontaneous tributes to his 

 memory, even from his most violent political enemies, made manifest a 

 wonderful change of opinion since the end of his public life. When he 

 left the White House for the last time, in March 1897, he was bitterly 

 hated by the Republicans and by a great many Democrats, the latter 

 accusing him of having split the party by his repudiation of Bryan and 

 the free-silver policy. Almost immediately, public opinion began to 

 turn in his favour and he was dubbed the "Sage of Princeton." After 

 the great scandals in the life insurance companies of New York, which 

 were exposed by Mr. Hughes, the affairs of the Equitable were in a very 

 dangerous state, because of public suspicion and lack of confidence. Mr. 

 Ryan, who had bought control of the stock, put the company into the 

 hands of three trustees, one of whom was Mr. Cleveland. The way in 

 which public confidence was at once restored, was an eloquent testimony 

 to the esteem in which he was held throughout the land. 



So far as I was concerned, the principal event of 1909 was the Darwin 

 Centenary at Cambridge, which I attended. It was a very interesting 

 occasion and, from all over the world, a brilliant company of scholars 



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