Gate erected by the Symmes family on the campus of Williams College, in memory of their son and the other Williams students lost aboard the Mohawk, along with Professsor Cleland. The left and right panes read, respectively:

In Memory of
William Dwight Symmes
LLoyd Houghton Crowfoot
Julius Palmer
Three Williams Seniors,
who with their Professor,
Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland
died gallantly at sea January 24, 1935 while on a Geological Expedition to Yucatan.

(Right Side of gate)

The Symmes Gate
"Doomed to know not Winter
only Spring, a being
Trod the flowery April
blithely for awhile,
Took his fill of music,
joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed an went,,
nor ever ceased to smile."

"R.L.S."