Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-23
Monday, October %, 1905
The Hall Of Fame Controversy.

Iprticns are made. The failure of GER
tain eminent authors. notably Edgar
Allen Poe, to gain place when the re-
cent selections were made has caused
It general controversy in which Consid-
cradle feeling is being shown. Let us
begin AZ the beginning Of this Hail Oh
Fame business. 1t was early in l9OU
that the council of New York Uni
ycrsity accepted a gift Of 100000, after
" ard Increased to $3.50 900, from donor
whose name was withheld, for the cree
ton and completion on UNIVERSITY
Heights. New York city. of bullhlis
to he called the Hall of Fame for Gre'l
Americans. A structure was accord
in;,Iy built i'm the form of seml-clrcie'
40 feet long. Is feet wide, and 10 ieet
high. connecting the university iidii y
philosophy with the hall OF languages
Within the colnnnadc $50 panels e"Fli
t,>n by eight feet, are to be placed |"
bear the names of Americans deemed
thc greatest in their respective h"idS.
I-rd,r the rules adopted only per-
,or. harm on what is now United
STATES territory and who shall nave
boon dead ten or more years are ellsl-
lilo 10 be chosen. Fifteen classes of
,itizcns were recommended for con-
si.lcratfon. to wit: Authors and editors.
business men. educators. inventors
missionaries ana explorers philan-
,hror,ists and rcformers. preachers ana
thculcians. scientists. engineers ana
architects, lawyers and judges, must
,ius painters and sculptors, physl-
clans ana surgeons. rulers and states
mon. soldiers ard sailors. distinguished
mon and women outside the above
81 ,yycs. Fifty names were To be sun
s,rihn.i on the tablets at the beginning
ANA five additional names every htth
x..,r thereafter until the year 1000
,,h.u tho 10 Inscriptions will he com
,j.,.I should there he a failure t"
select the entire names at tn" begin
ming tn, vacancies shall be filled in a
following year.
The rules pres, ribcd that the coun-
~ should invite nominations from the
ruhlfc. Every nomination seconded
,,. ncnbcr Of the university senate
should he submitted to IN electorate
" 100 eminent citizens selected by the
council each of whom must vote Tor
20 of tho candidates.
In October. 1000. tn" university sem
49,. received two ballots Of the judges
at the 100 Judges selected y voted
.rhc number of names which had been
submitted to them was 2o2. or these
.,rh nudge returned vote of 20. The
rule required that no candidate r"c"lF-
iut- less than II votes should nc &C
c.rt.d. The returns showed that but
% candidates received the REQUIRED
number ana were chosen: These are n
follows. George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln. Daniel Webster. Benjamin
Franklin. Ulysses s. Grant, John Mar
shall. Thomas jefferson. Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Henry w. Longfellow, R"bcr
Fulton. Washington Irving. Jonathan
Edwards. Samuel +. y. Morse Davi'
g. Frragut. Henry Clay, Nathanie
Hawthorne. George Peabody. Robert L
Lee. Peter Cooper. Eli Whitney, Joh1
j. Audubon. Horace Mann. Herr
L
Story. John Adams. William f. Chan
ming. Gilbert Stuart and Asa Gray.
At this years voting the names q
Lowell. Whittier. Sherman. job
Quincy Adams and James Madison re
c"ivcd the required majority Of
votes AT the time of the first vote
was apparent that there were foreign
born Americans whose names belonge
ON the tablets. Provision was made 70
n hall with 80 panels for them, and 70
another hall with 60 panels for famou
American women. both native and for
ciEn born. by this years vote tn
names of Hamilton, Agassiz and PAT
''''F' anu VI MttN bN VII,
Chuhbock Johnson, and Maria Mitche
We're chosen in the new classes. Anon
the mon voted for who have failed a
yet to he chosen are Calhoun. Sumne
General Jackson. Seward. CARTEL,
Hlaine, Beecher Noah Webster, Ho,
acc Greeley, Fenimore Cooper, Edge
Allan Foe, Phillips Brooks, BRYAN
Holmes. Parkman, Bancroft. Prescott
General Sheridan. Mark Hopkin
kutns Choate. and many others who
every schoolboy knows about FL,
years from now the defeated will In,
another chance and doubtless mos,
these names mentioned will sooner
later be inscribed upon the nana
Moreover the country will produce
lot more famous Americans before +
present century ends.
Mr. Chamberlain was forty when
nrSt wrote M. p" after his name \
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