填空题
Of all the memorials which are offered to a university by the gratitude of her sons, there are none which serve so closely and fully the purposes of her life as those monuments which commemorate her dead heroes. The most important part of teaching of a place like Yale is found in the lessons of public spirit and devotion to high ideas which it gives. These things can in some measure be learned in books of poetry and of history. They can in some measure be learned from daily life of the college and the sentiments which it inculcates. But they are most solemnly and vividly brought home by visible signs, such as this gateway furnishes, that the spirit of ancient heroism is not dead, and that its highest lessons are not lost.