flux of human beings that anywhere crowd this
great city. Thousands pass this statue, learning
from it their first lessons in American history.
Hundreds have stopped, seeing this bareheaded,
dauntless man, evidently doomed to die, to try to
learn whence he came and why he stands there,
appealing to the noblest patriotism--patriotism
that must touch the heart of any man who knows
the love of country.

Since this statue was placed, memorials of various
kinds to Nathan Hale have been erected in several
parts of the country. The schoolhouses in which
he taught, although not occupying their original
sites, have been restored, and are in possession of
patriotic societies.

To-day Yale, endowed with buildings costing
millions, is learning that stone and mortar, in
edifices however beautiful, do not enshrine their
noblest memories.

Through a few friends of Yale, a statue of Nathan
Hale by Bela Lyon Pratt has recently been placed
near the oldest college building, Connecticut Hall.
This building has been restored to the appearance
it bore when Nathan Hale dwelt therein. Who
shall say that the statue of the bound boy, facing
death so manfully, will not prove one of Yale's
noblest endowments?

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