Still another beautiful statue of Nathan Hale
by William Ordway Partridge may be seen in the
city of St. Paul, Minn.

Happily, Nathan Hale's ability to die for his
country is but one side of a Yale shield from which
gleam the names of hundreds of her sons, who,
doubtless as ready to die for their country as he,
had they been in his place, have proved their
power to live for God and for their native land.
Everywhere, in all quarters of the world, the
Nathan Hale spirit of unselfish devotion has inspired
the sons of Yale to the noblest service they
could render; and every man, young or old, who
passes the statue of Nathan Hale will realize that
hosts have lived lives inspired by the same splendid
spirit.

Nathan Hale himself went forth from his alma
mater filled with the joyous hopes and ambitions
that have filled the souls of many other men, all
unconscious of the fact that the finest heroism and
the highest self-sacrifice lay just before him, but
conscious that he meant to be ready for the best
that life could give him. He was ready; and the
best of life for him was the power to die as he died.

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