This picture was taken on June 6, 1906, during the dedication of the memorial of the Spanish-American War.\u00a0 The sculpture is shown draped in the American flag just prior to the unveiling, which was held as part of the School’s Fiftieth Anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n
In St. Paul’s: The Life of a New England School<\/em>, August Heckscher describes St. Paul’s response to the Spanish-American War:<\/p>\n The granite-walled terrace of the library became, a few years after its completion, the setting for a memorial to the St. Paul’s men who fought in the Spanish-American War.\u00a0 This war (1897-1898) roused Millville to a high pitch of patriotic fervor and struck a responsive chord among St. Paul’s alumni wherever they were.\u00a0 It was a St. Paul’s graduate, Hamilton Fish, Jr., [Form of 1890] serving under Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who became the first American to be killed in action. . . Later Roosevelt visited the school at Anniversary and expressed in person his admiration for the six St. Paul’s graduates who had served in his regiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This picture was taken on June 6, 1906, during the dedication of the memorial of the Spanish-American War.\u00a0 The sculpture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[539],"tags":[538,501,698,542,439],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/olda_000051_w.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}