The Washington herald., 1920-08-08

Americans who have lived, wrought and
died during the days Of these United
States, whom would you designate?
Among all the American leaders in the
various avenues Of life, rulers, states
msn, generals, sdmirals, preachers,
teachers, inventors, explorers, mission
aries, authors, engineers, scientists,
musicians, merchants and the like,
whom would you select as the candi-
dates most prs-eminently fitted by rea-
son Of their individual achievements In
behalf Of humanity for a place in q
Hall Of Fame?
Put on your thinking cap and try It.
Writs down q List of fifty famous
Americans and compare It little later
elevated TO q place In Americas Hall
Of Fams-
For America has q Han Of Fame. It
Is no Westminster Abbey like that In
which England entombs her great leaders
and through the years pays tributs to
their memories and their valued accom-
phIhments. Instead of Valhalla for
the sacred dead, America has reared
shrine dedicated to perpetuate the mem
ory Of our great dead, which is coming
moro and more to be looked upon as a
national institution With each year,
and with each succeeding election OF
new candidates, IL looms higher in the
public imagination Of America.
You probably know Of that American
Hall of Fame. 1t is located in New
York city, the metropolis Of the New
World, overlooking the waters and the
very ground upon which the pioneers
came to rear the new democracy. This
Hall Of Fame grew with the dawn Of
the twentieth century. 1t was estab-
hshed in 1900 when 1t was announced
that New York University had accepted
a gift Of 500, 900 from a friend for the
building Of colonnade at New York
University, on University Heights,
overlooking the Palisades and the Hud-
son md Harlem valleys. 1t was an
nounced that $50 panels would be
provided for memor1l bronze tablets,
fifty to be inscribed in 1900, provided
fifty dames should be approved bs the
two bodies Of judges then named, ind
at the close Of every hve years h-re-
after i've additional tablets lhould De
inscribed, so hat he entire nimber
would be complete about the year 1000
A. D.
STEADILY the movement has pro-
Ogressed and grown in favor with each
successive election. These selections
are held each quinquennial year.
Who, to date, have been elected to
place In this shrine? If you have pre-
pared your own list of famous Ameri-
Tans, lay It side by side with this list
A-,d see how they compare. For here
are the names Of the fifty American men
and six American women who have been
chosen during the elections of 1900,
1905, 1910 and 1915:
Authors-Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wsdsworth Longfellow, Wash
ington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf
Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar
Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper,
William Cullen Bryant, George Ban
croft, John Lothfop Motley and Francis
Parkman.
Educators-Horace Mann and Mark
Hopkins.
Preachers and theologians-Jonathan
Edwards, Henry Ward 8Aecher, VII
liam Ellery Claiming and Phillips
Brooks.
Philanthropists and reformers-
George Peabody and Peter Cooper.
scieptists-John James Audubon
Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz and Joseph
Henry.
Engineers and architects-None.
Physicians and surgeons-None.
Inventors-Robert Fulton, Samuel F,
B. Morse, Eli Whitney and Elias Howe.
Missionaries and explorers-Daniel
Boone.
Soldiers and sailors-Ulysses 8.
Grant, David G. Farragut, Robert E.
Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman.
Lawyers and judges-John Marshall,
James Kent, Joseph Story and Rufus
Choate.
Rulers and statesmen-George Wash
ington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Web
ster, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas JEFF
ferson, Henry Clay, John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, James Madison, An
drew Jackson and Alexander Hamilton.
Business men-None.
Musicians, painters, sculptors, etc
Charles Gilbert Stuart.
Famous women-Harriet Beecher
Stowe, author; Mary Lyon and Emms
willard, educators and missionaries
Frances E. Willard, from among homt
or social workers; Maria Mitchell
scientist, and Charlotte S. Cushman
in the class Of musicians, painters
sculptors, etc
DUT surely there are others qualified
to take place in Hall of American
Fame is probably your soliloquy.
There are many others who hav,
failed Of placement by reason of an in
sufficient number of votes among tn
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