Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-12-15
THE AMERICAN
HALL OF FAME

custom to honor their llustrious dead
Some countries have done it i'll one
way, some i'll another The Greeks
and Romans loved to enshrinc their
dead i'll marble, and marble statues OF
many OF the greatest among the
ancients are still in existence.
France elects its most distinguished
living men to its Academy. where they
arc termed "Immortals.
Only within recent years has Ameri-
"a come to a realization OF its wealth
of illustrious men: and it was i'll 1900
that the Hall of Fame OF New York
University was founded.
Built on 4 bluff overlooking the
| Harlem river and across from the
| north end OF Manhattan Island, it
commands noble, panoramic view.
| Elections to the Hall OF Fame are held
every five years The first one was
held in 1900: the results of the fifth has
! Just been made public. For these vari-
Gus elections, nominations are invited
from the public at large, and more
than sixty of the available one hundred
! and fifty spaces have now been filled.
Names of nominees are first passed
| upon by groups of we'll known Amcri-
cans, and the names finally approved
are then submitted for vote to one
| hundred men and women whose de-
cision is final As matter of fact
| the present electorate of the Hall OF
| Fame consists of nincty-six men and
| TX women--l02 in all
In the election just closed the cleo
! tors belong i'll various walks of lie as
| follows
University presidents. p; professors
| If history and historians, lS; scientists
| II: author andeditors, a. public off
,ials and men and women OF affairs. l9
justices, national and state courts. -;
| There is one omitted here by reason
| # the fact that one eector cast a blank
| ballot.
Among immortals already elected
Ire such eminent Amrican writer's as
Emerson, the sage of Concord; the
| poet Longfelow; Washington Irving
Hawthorne, Bryant, Bancroft, Fenni-
more Cooper, Oliver Wendell Holmes
edgar Allen Poe, John l.. Motley
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others.
Among American inventors are
Robert Fulton. Samuel Morse. Ell;
Whitney and Elias Howe. Naval and
military heroes are represented bv
tarragut, Grant, Lee and Sherman.
\mong educators is Horace Mann.
In all, fifty men and six women have
been honored They are authors.
statesmen, preachers, explorers Daniel
Boone is the only one under this head
n.y. scientists, musicians soldiers and
ailor inventors and educators The
nx women are Harriet Beecher Stowe
luthor OF Uncle Toms Cabin" Mary
Lyon and Emma Willard, educators
md missionaries, Maria Mitchell
scientist, Frances L. Willard home and
'ocial worker and Charlotte S. Clusi,-
nan. artist
At the election just held the follow
nS Sin men won their places among
he lmmOrta1s-
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark
lwain) James Buchanan Eads Pat
-ick Henry, William Thomas Green
Norton, Augustus St. Gaudcns and
Roger Williams.
1wcnty-Seven women were nonin-
ttcd but only one was successful.
Strang to say, many men andwomen
fame and distinction were nominated
out did not receive enough votes to
'lect them.
Among these wereWalt Whitman
Henry Stanley OF Darkest Aferica"
anne. Grover Cleveland Role Martha
Washington Paul Jones Edwin Booth
and few others. But their opportn-
nifty will come again.