Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-16

Final ballots for the fifth quinquen-
NAL election of famous American
men and women to the New York
/ University Hall Of Fame are now in
| the hands of the 102 electors who
will decide from the list of 204 nomi-
mated. Twenty men and ten women
may be elected this year, and the
electors have until October l to make
their decisions. The results, how
ever, will not be announced before
November /.
OF the 204 who are nominated for
| the honor. 1T are men and twenty,
twenty three women were hold
over" nominations from previous
elections, each having received nVe
| or more votes in 1910 or 1918. rory
six men and two women were tne
successful candidates chosen by the
preliminary nominations made by the
public of eighty-five men and four
women, and twenty men and Two
women were added to the list by the
electors.
Rulers and Statesmen.
1t is found that the largest group OF
nominees of men for the Hall of Fame
comes under the head of rulers ana
statesmen. Twenty-seven men are
x
includes a number of former Presi-
dents of the United States who have
not already been elected. The second
largest group is found under the
heading of authors, in which twenty
four names are contained.
Woman candidates are more numer-
out under the classification of philan-
thropists. reformers, home or social
workers. Twelve names are nom1-
mated for this honor. now held by
only one woman, Frances Elizabeth
Willard, who was elected in 1910.
under the heading of authors. and
only one woman. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, has been elected in this classi-
fication.
List Of Nominees.
Nominees for election this year for
the Mems Hall of Fame follow:
Authors-William Lloyd Garrison,
Horace Greeley, Francis Scott Key,
Wendell Phillips. William Kicking
Prescott, Noah Webster. George Will
liam Curtis, William Dwight Whit
ney, John Fiske, Francis Bret
Harte, Walt Whitman, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
Francis Marion Crawford. Charles A.
Dana, Eugene Field, Henry George,
Richard Watson Glider, Joel Chandler
Harris. Francis Lieber. Charles Eliot
norton. InOmaS fdiue, EQuuHu LIAR
ence Stedman and Henry David
Thoreau.
Educators-Thomas H. Gallaudat.
Samuel G. Howe, Francis Wayland,
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, John
witherspoon, Samuel Chapman ARM
strong, Borden Parker Bovine, Dam
iel Colt Gilman. William H. McGuf-
fey, Eliphalet Mott and Noah Porter.
Preachers. theologians - Lyman
Beecher, Horace Bushnell. Cotton
Mather, Theodore Parker. Matthew
Simpson, Francis Asbury, William
Brewster, Dwight Lyman Moody.
Roger Williams, Edward Everett
Hale and Heinrich Melchoir Mullen
berg.
Philanthropists, reformers - Henry
Bergh and John Brown.
acknowledgement Fullerton Baird.
Nathaniel Bowditch. Matthew Fon-
tame Maury, Benjamin Pierce. Benja-
min Silliman, Benjamin Thompson,
Josiah Willard Gibbs. Samuel Pier
pont Langley, Henry Lewis Morgan
and Simon Newcomb.
Engineers, afchitects-Jame Buch-
anan Eads, Alexander Lyman Holley,
Henry Hcbson Richardson. John Au-
gustus Roebling, John Willis Griffiths,
Charles Follen McKim. Robert Mills
and John Stevens. To date there have
been no elections to the Hall of Fame
from this classification.
Physicians and surgeons-Ephriam
William Thomas Green
Morton. Benjamin Rush, James Ma
rion Sims. Crawford w. Long, Frank