New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26
AT THE HALL OF FAME.
Tablets for Elepen More Great
americans To he UnUeiIed.

Memorial Day will be a gala occasion on Univer~
sity Heights. when eleven names OF great Amer
scans will be added to the twenty-nine placed six
years ago in the Hall of Fame at New York UNI
versity. Elaborate exercises Will mark this
ond unwilling in the pantheon which IS of the
most notable landmarks that the late Stanford
White designed for New York Governor Hughes
of New York and Governor Guild of Massachusetts
will deliver orations. representatives Of come TWEEN
ty-hvo patriotic societies and social and civic
CARNATIONS will participate IN the exercises, and
adequate musical programme has been ar
ranged
Emma Willard Mary Lyon. Maria Mitchell.
John Paul Jones. Alexander Hamilton Louis
Agussiz, Jauaes Madison John Quincy Adams.
William TecuE2ssh Sherman. John Creenleaf
Whittier and Jarles Russell Lowell Will be the
great Americans honored by pisces IN the Hall
of Fame and In addition. bust CT Horace Mann
win be unveiled two-Tninl+e speech by men,
Der of the committee will accompany each unveil-
ing. and the appearance of the tablet will be an
nounced by fanfare Of trumpets.
The principal interest centres In the three names
to be inscribed in the Hall Of Fans for Women
The temple for women, which Will be at the north
ern end of the hall has yes been built owing
the fact that 1t will interconnect with tho pro-
posed school OF philosophy, money for which has
not yet been raised. The tablets TO women WILL
therefore. be placed IN a temporary structure of
masonry, from which they will later be removed
TO their permanent places.
There thirty-seven wornen's names voted
by the college presidents professors pubicists.
mittee admissions to the Hall of Fame. With
forty-seven votes necessary to admit. Mary Lyon
received 80. winning the honor of being the first
woman placed in the hall. Emma Willard received
% and Maria Mitchell 4s votes. Other women who
were well up in the haloting were Charlotte Cush-
man. 80 votes: Dorothea Lynde Dix. 81; Louisa NJ
Aloott 81; Helen Hunt Jackson 81 Lucretia Mott
IS, and Martha Washington, 80.
II is interesting TO recall that Maria Mitchell
GsiSlsS9) the first conspicuous advocate Of
after the opening of Vessar in 1866 when with
her hard interna tional reputation astron-
oIner, she called TO I'll the chair OF astronomy
Of that college. Discovering that young instruct
who compared with herself was practically
unknown. getting salary, she made a
persistent protest in the name OF her sex and
result secured salary equal to that of the
professors. She was the first 20 be admitted
10 the American Academy Of Arts and Sciences.
OF the other two women to be honored. Emma
Willard was the founder of the Troy Female Semi
nary. and was author, editor and poet as well as
educator She wrote Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep" Mary Lyon the founder Of Mount
Holyoke College.
After the unwilling exercises in the Hall Of Fame
the company viii edjourn Il the weather is pleas
arnphitheatre capable of Observation-Disclosures ten n" thou
sand persons. Part Of this is the schwab prop
esy by Mrs. RGse sse AZ he 70 foot the Of p the
lawn platform will be erected. from which the
Six acres out OF the entire college campus of
rope barriers for the Hal Of Fame eSercses Ip
mission TO these six will be by ticket only
until after the platform exercises begin, when the
general public Will be admitted
While automobiles and carriages will be admitted
within the Enclosure TO discharge guests they will
assigned postlons on other parts OF the grounds
The new parkway recently provided by the city
Board OF Estimate in compensation for the closing
up by the city of the old Hudson River Railroad
station VIII be utilized for the first time on Nav 80
4 provisional path will lead through the woods
from the station to the campus. distance Of about
the paved streets. Both Hudson River and Putnam
trains will stop at University Heights Memorial
Day, while President Shonts OF the Interborough
has arranged for cars every two minutes from the
subway station at Hist street direct TO the uni
versity campus
let's all Of the other twenty organizations that took
part in the first unwilling exercises six years ago
have been invited TO send representatives and
of them Will do They will decorate with flowers
and wreaths the older tablets. and the general
public is also invited TO bring floral tributes SO
that the Hall OF Fame bids fair to resemble a
bower this occasion.
The names Of these specially invited societies
New England Society. Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. Young Peoples Society Of Christian En-
deavor. Botanical Society Of America, American
Society OF Naturalists, American Society OF Me-
Engineers. American Society Of Civil Engineers.
United Daughters Of the Confederacy, National
Association Of Naval Veterans, American Academy
of Political and Social Science Bar Association of
New York American Bar Association. Military Or
der OF the Loyal Legion. Daughters Of the Revo-
Wadleigh High School. Norris High School. and
Normal College
The Inscriptions the eleven tablets are as
follows: