In November 1982 Gordon R. Allen, Class of 1943, approached the Princetoniana Committee in his capacity as attorney for the Methodist Church. The church had been given land known as the Jay Estate outside Rye, New York, as part of the estate of Walter B. (Class of 1933) and Zilph Palmer Devereux.

  Allen reported that there was a statue of a Princeton tiger on the estate which the church would donate if the University pay to move it. Allen had been told that the tiger had been used to cast the pair of tigers in front of Nassau Hall. However, Hugh Wynne, Class of 1939, quickly realized that Zilph Palmer was the daughter of Edgar Palmer, Class of 1903, and that this was actually from the mold for the tiger statue in Palmer Square.

  This "Palmer Square tiger" was the work of sculptor Charles R. Knight and served as a memorial to Palmer. The Class of 1943 soon agreed to pay for the costs of moving the statue from New York to Princeton, to pay for repair work done by Alex Ettl, and to create a pedestal for the beast which was executed by the University's carpentry shop.

  Now installed in Jadwin Gymnasium, the statue is yet another example of the work of the Princetoniana Committee.