Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-13
IN HALL OF FAME.
Thirty Names Finally Elected 70 shs
Hall OF Fame.

New York, Oct, IS. The election ia the
hall OF fame contest was concluded ye
|terday when the senate Of New York
university assembled and paNed upon
the list Of eligibles submitted to that
body by the committee which for the
last three days has been counting the
votes. The total number Of Hannes et1b-s
mitted to the 100 judges was 252. Tho
1.-The standard OF eligibility had beer
placed as low as ffty-ons votes only
thirty of the nominees hadreached that
standard. 1t was the names of slch
nominees that We're submitted to the
Isenate, and that body, IN which IL vest
ed the power of absolute and peremp-
Il tory veto, on this occasion confined IT.
self to simple confirmation OF the COM
|mittee' findings.
According to this decision the follow
ing famous men were accorded place
on the tablets Of the hall Of fame:
George Washington 80. =. .. >. ...... 81.
abraham Lincoln ...... ...s.... 96
Daniel Webster. I. !. ........ 86
Benjamin Franklin .... .#...... "a
u >. Grant q. .sss... ...... ~
John Marsha II 80. -. ). ...... 81
Thomas Jefferson 80. ...l.... :. 30
Ralph Waldo Emerson :. >. ;. ....S.. 86
Henry w. Longfellow ...... "a
Washington Irving ........ .... 81
Jonathan Edwards. >. .... 49,. go. 90
David g. Farragut .... 79
Samuel 3. B. Morse ........ 79
Henry Clay .. ~
George Peabody 80. -. ....s.... j. 10
Nathaniel Hawthorne. .. 80. ). $50. ~
Robert p. Lee. ............ ;. 50
[ Peter Cooper .. 80. 6S
Horace Mann ...... 81
Henry Ward Beecher. ...... ..S.. -. 66
Eli Whitney 66l
James Kent ~. -. 80. ...... ...... .. 65s
Joseph Storey 80. $50. ..,...... Ga
| John Adams. ...... - 81
William E. Claiming ...... ....&.... So
James Audubon ~. ..... =. 80. .... 81
William Morris Hunt -. So
iGilbert Stuart .... -. ....s...{.. 50
Asa Gray. -. ...i.i. -. Il. Y. 81
About two thirds OF the senate body,
which is composed Of the deans and
senior professors of each faculty, were
present. Chancellor Henry MacCracken,
fpresident of the body, occupied the
| lchair Az pressure had been brought to
bear on the senate to admit American
citizensof foreign birth to places in the
lhall of fame measure having bearing.
upon that question was discussed and
1.-THE following memorial was addressed
1 by the senate to the university corpora
ltions:
The New York university senate for
number of reasons cordially approves
the strict limitation of the hall Of fame
| to native-b born Americans. At the same
time we would welcome a similar me-
mortal to foreign born Americans, az
| follows:
"a new edifice to be Joined to (the
north porch of the present hall, with
harmonious architecture, to contain q
fifth of the space of the present hall
THAT is, not over thirty panels-ten to be
devoted the first year tothe commemora-
Ition of ten foreign born Americans who
have been deceased for at least ten
years, and an additional panel TO be de-
voted to one name every Ave years
lthruout the5twentieth century. We be-
i Iliev that less than one ifth of the cost
of the edifice now being built would pro-
vide this new hall, and that neither in
conspicuity nor in the landscape which
/ it would command would 1t in any way
fall behind the present one
AS reasons for the step taken. Cham
cellor MacCracken mentioned that let
tiers had been received from the Hanil-
ton Club Of Chicago and from me4nbers
1of the faculty 3of Harvard, az well ar
from r. ". Glider, recommending that
such a hall be erected.