The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-03-17

Of citizens were recommended for consideration:
Authors and editors, business men, educators, in
ventors missionaries and explorers phianthropists
and reformers preachers and theologians scientists
engineers and architects, lawyers and Judges, must
clans, painters and sculptors, physicians and sur
geone rulers and statesmen soldiers and Sailors dis
tinguished men and outside the abovec classes
Fifty to be inscribed on the tablets at the
beginning and Eve additional names every fifth year
thereafter until the year 1900, when the $50 inscrp
tons will be completed. In OF failure to I'LL all
the panels allotted the vacancies to be filed in
following year.
In February 1904, the plan was announced OF
an additional structure IN the form of loggia join
ing the colonnade on the north having thirty panels
for foreignborn Americans, six to be filed in 1905
and beyond this Hall of Fame for Women, about
thirty by thirty feet with places for sixty tablets
The rules prescribed that the council should in
vite nominations from the public. Every nomina-
ton seconded by member Of the University Senate
should be submitted TO electorate of one hundred
eminent citizens selected by the council.
In October, 1900 there we're 252 names submit
ted and the returns showed Twenty-Five selections
follows George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
Daniel Webster, Benjamin Franklin, UlyssesS Grant
John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry w. Longfellow, Robert Fulton,
Washington Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F.
B. Morse David G.. Farragut, Henry Clay, Nathan
lei Hawthorne, George Peabody Robert E. Lee, Peter
Cooper, Eli Whitney, John J. Audubon, Horace
Mann Henry Ward Beecher, James Kent, Joseph
Story, John Adams, William E. Charming, Gilbert
Stuart and Asa Gray.
In October, 1906 the following names were ad-
~, uono Tob,, dom
James Russell Lowell, William T. Sherman, James
Madison John Greenleaf Whittier, Alexander Ham
ilton, Louis Agassz, John Paul Jones, Mary Lyon.
Emma Willard, Maria Mitchell
Two conspicuous names absent are those of
Andrew Jackson and Edgar Allan Poe Others, out
side of those who have occupied the Presidency,
whose names will probably ere long be added are
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Phillips Brooks, George
Bancroft, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Green and
Mark Hopkins.
Twenty-Five Presidents furnish so far seven whose
names are enrolled in the list of those who constitute
the Hall of Fame
OF those now living whose names are almost
sure to be added are Thomas A. Edison, the inventor
and Admiral Dewey. Among the women now living
whose name will undoubtedly be added is that of
Julia Ward Howe.
Differences of opinion exist regarding some Of
the selections but on the whole they represent
ative In due course the names of jackson, Poe,
Greeley, Holmes and others may be added
The Hall of Fame pays tribute tothe dead while
the French Academy confers it's honors upon the liv
ing-thus enabling them to know during their lives
that they have joined the mmortals of this earth so
far as history is concerned. The French idea is no
doubt the better of the two, for
"In the grave there is no heartache.
Well forget where sorrows led,
| Speak some words of hope and comfort
While I'm living, not when dead
| "Tell me I've been true and faithful,
| Tell me now ere life is fed;
In the grave l cannot hear you,
Say it now, not when I'm dead"
Col. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is making q
tour of South America with his estmable wife and
thew are being received in most hospitable and
enthusiastic manner. Irrespective of Col. Bryan's
political beliefs it is pleasant to know that the Great
Commoner is appreciated abroad as well as at home
The also made that the thrice defeat
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