New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Mark Twain Put
TnHallOf Fame
With 6 Others
lanes B. Eads, Patrick Hen
nv, ". I. &. Morton, Saint
Caudens and Roger Will
Jams Also Are Elected
Alice Palmer Honorcd
New York University An
nounces Results of Fifth
Quinqaennial Balloting g

Six men and one woman have been
c;eoted to the Hall of Fame, New
York University, and to the Hall of
Fame for Great American Women,
respectively, in the fifth quinquennial
election. the result of which was an
ncrrced yesterday
The author class, the engineer
architect class. the ruler-statesman
olsss, the medical class, the artist
class and the theologian class are rep
resented by the SIX names elected
These SIX men are Samuel Langhorne
Clemens Mark Twain, James Bu-
chanan Eads. American engineer:
Patrick Henry. statesman: William
Thomas Green Morton, dental surgeon
and dscoYerel OF the process OF an
asthesia which is now known Is
ether, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Amer
car sculptor, and Roger Williams,
founder o. the Rhode Island colony.
OF -he twenty-sevea names of women
voted for the name cf Alice Freeman
Fslmer, educator, was alone elected
20 the Hall Of Fame for Great Amer
ean Women Alice Freeman Palmer
wzs born in Colesville, \. y. on Feb
rLary 2l, 1875, and died in Paris.
France. Decenb ber 6. 1902 She was
graduated from the University Of
Michigan in 1876.
Was President of Wellesley
She was presiien. of Wellesley Col
lsge from lSs2 until her marriage to
Professor G. H. Palmer, of Harvard
University, IN 1887. Daring her ad-
n'inistration the college standard Of
scholarship was raised. the number
o. students very greatly increased and
several important buildings were
added
Tie work Or James Buchanan Eads.
American engineer. which will be re-
membered longest is the improving of
the South Pass Of the Nississi,nj
delta which greatly facilitated trans
ro-tatcn at the mouth OF the great
American waterway.
Among the better known works Of
Augustus Saint-GauGeus, American
sculptor. are the President Lincoln
statue in Lincoln Park. Chicago; the
bass RELIEF. the Elaboration Of the Cross
~ the Ange Is. -he Shaw Monument
Il Boston. and me Diana on top of the
over o. hadlsOn square Garden.
The management o. this wears cleo
'.on, in the absence Of the director
pr Robert Underwood johnson. An
hassador 10 Italy. has been in the
hands Of Mrs William Nanamee. act
ng director Prior to this Years cleo
tlon fifty men and six women have
been elected to the Hall of Fame. the
'otal now being fifty-six men and
seven women.
Rules Covering Election
L was possible this year 10 eject
% the Hall OF Fame for Great Amer
cans twenty men. Sixty eight votes
o. two-thirds of the 1O1 votes cast
were required to elect name unless
nat name bore the marking " J. F
more justly iarous). in which case
ifty-one votes we're sufficient to elect
name. One hundred and seventy
'Hven names Of men appeared on the
nallots OF the electorate, which con-
sists - niretF-s'X men and SIX women
ne elec'or casting blank ballot
Mark Twain and Morton received the
highest lndiv dual vote.
In MAY. 1921. there will be public
4nveliing q. the Hall Of Fame, on I'M
Nersity Heights, of twenty-six bronze
tablets bearing the names Of men and
women who have been elected i'm this
and previous years. Th;rty-seve al
ready have been unveiled