International studio (54.1914/1915)

Th?. Amherst Monument

NOAH WEBSTER MEMORIAL AT AMHERST COLLEGE BY W. D. PADDOCK


THE AMHERST MONUMENT
Great responsibility attached to the
man who cast his vote for W. D.

Paddock when it came to selecting a

sculptor to undertake a somewhat unusual
task—somewhat unusual because, instead of a

portrait, the donor, Mr. Billings, was desir-
ous of presenting to his old college a tradition,
a noble ideal. W. D. Paddock has hitherto been

associated with a different type of work, and
it is therefore all the more to his credit and to the
credit of his supporter that a big, splendid work
has been achieved which will readily bear com-
parison with the best of its kind on any campus in
the whole country. His conception breathes the
faith, the learning and the spiritual uplift which
Noah Webster’s life at Amherst embodied. The
setting of the statue is of red Westerly granite, and
the bowls at the end of the bench are of bronze,
like the seated figure. Water runs out from the
ends of the cross which forms the top of the stone,
dropping off the ends of the big stone into the
basins and carried off by invisible channels.


THE APPROACH TO THE MONUMENT

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