Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-10-18
THE HALL OF FAME.
Senate Of New York University
Passes Upon the List
WASHINGTON GETS A FULL VOTE.
Pressure Brought to Bear to Admit Amer
lean Citizens Of Foreign Birth 10 "a
Place In the Hail-An Annex
for Them Wanted

New YORK, Uct. l3.-lne tlectlon IN
the Hall of Fame contest was con
cluded yesterday when the senate OF
the New York university assembled
and passed upon the list of eliglbles
submitted to that body by the COM
mittee which for the last three days
has been counting the votes. The to-
tai number of names submitted to
the 100 Judges was 1852. Though the
standard of eligibility had been
placed as low as 81 votes, only 81 OF
the nominees had reached that stand
ard. 1t was the names of such nom
inees that were submitted to the SEN
ate and that body, in which is vested
the power of absolute and peremp-
tory vote, on this occasion confined
itself to simple confirmation OF the
committees findings.
According to this decision the fol-
lowing famous men were accorded Il
place on the tablets of the Hall of
Fame. George Washington, ~ (the
full vote); Abraham Lincoln, 06; Dan
lei Webster, 96; Ben amin Franklin,
"a; Z. S. Grant, 92; John Marshall, 81;
Thomas Jefferson, 90; Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Sc; Henry W. Longfellow,
"a; Robert Fulton, 81; Wash
ington Irving, So; Jonathan Ed
wards, So; David G. FarMgut, 70;
Samuel r. B. Morse, 70; Henry Clay,
"A; George Peabody, "; Nathaniel
Hawthorne, r.; Robert 4. Lee, SO;
Peter Cooper, IS; Horace Mann, 81;
Henry Ward Beecher, 66; Eli Whitney,
&C; James Kent, IS; Joseph Storey,
"a; John Adams, 81; William Ellery
Claiming IS; James Audubon, 81;
Elias Howe, SO; William Morris Hunt,
SO; Gilbert Stuart, So; Asa Gray, 81.
About two-thirds of the senate
body, which is composed of the deans
and senior professors of each faculty,
were present. Chancellor Henry M.
McCracken, president of the body, oc-
cupied the chair. As pressure had
been brought to bear on the senate
to admit American citizens of foreign
birth to places In the Hall of Fame a
measure bearing upon that question
was discussed and the following
memorial was addressed by the senate
to the university corporations:
"rhe New York University senate
for number of reasons cordially ap-
proves the strict limitation of the Hall
of Fame to native-born Americans.
At the same time we would welcome
q similar memorial to foreign-born
Americans, as follows: A new edihce
to be joined to the north porch of
the present hall, with harmonious
architecture, to contain fifth of the
space of the present hall; that Is, not
over 80 panels, to be devoted, the first
year to the commemoration OF ten
foreign-born Americans, who have
deceased for at least ten years, and an
additional panel to be devoted to one
name every five years throughout the
twentieth century. We believe that
less than one-ffth of the cost of the
edifice now being built would provide
this new hall and that neither in con-
spicuity or in the landscape which 1t
would command would it any way fall
behind the present one" !
As reasons for the step taken,
Chancellor McCracken mentioned that
letters had been received from the
Hamilton club of Chicago, and from
members of the faculty of Harvard,
as well as from R. w. Glider, recon-
mendng that such a hall be erected.
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