The New York herald., 1921-05-22
26 NAMES ADDED
TO HALL OF FAME
Installed as American I'M
mOrtals at the University
of New York.
WOMEN IN THE GALAXY
Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Frances L. Willard Are
in the Number.
POE GETS PLACE AT LAST
Statesmen, Poets, Sculptors,
Inventors Among Those
HonOred With inches.

University Heights yesterday added
twenty-six names 10 its bronze roster
OF Americas immortals. All had been
tagged" for the posthumous honor in
due course by the board Of electors OF
the Hall of Fame of New York Uni
versity And yesterday, under smiling
skies, $500 spectators gathered on the
campus to see the grave and statuesque
galaxy of those who already enjoyed
their niche in New York's Pantheon in
the act Of initiating their neophytes.
Before the initiatory rites began
the electors, in conference assembled,
adopted some important recommends
tions which go from them for final
action to the senate Of the university.
One Of these was In line with the
breaking down of the last constitu-
tional barrier differentiating between
the rights of men and women. Notable
women already are among the elect In
the Hall of Fame, but hitherto they
have been voted for separately and,
as In the old Quaker meeting houses,
they have had their own segregated
corner In the sacred circle Of the i'm
mortals. The electors now recommend
that in future men and women shall
be voted for upon equal terms and
that their tablets shall not be segre-
gated in the Hall of Fame.
The electors also recommended the
extension of the period which must
elapse before a candidate may become
eligible to the Hall of Fame from ten
years after death. as at present to
twenty-five years.
Ceremony nm Imposing One.
With these preliminares and a largely
attended luncheon disposed of, the cere-
mony of the unveiling Of the tablets I'M
mortalizing the names Of the twenty
six neophytes began at 3 80 in the after
noon. There was a procession ponderous
with the dignity Of academic gowns and
learned degrees, but colorful with the
varied hues OF the doctors hoods under
the quilted warmth Of which scores OF
university dignitaries perspired pa
tiently. The column moved from the
Gould Library to the Hall OF Fame,
where the tablets were unveiled success
sively, beginning with those Of the
women inmortals. In every instance the
sponsor for each particular neophytc.
facing Chancellor Elmer E. Brown and
members of the faculty. the Senate,
electors and council of the university
stated briefly the achievements and
claims of his candidate. The chancellor
then formally accepted each into the
company Of the elect, the band executed
a fanfare Of trumpets and the flag COW
ering the face of the tablet was with
drawn
On the west lawn. facing the Hall OF
Fame, had been erected huge marquee
with a platform at one end. There the
assemblage gathered at the end Of the
actual unveiling. Chancellor Brown pre-
sided and presented as the orators OF the
day Dr. Henry Van Dyke, onetime Min
lister to the Netherlands. whose theme
was Fame" and DR.. William Milligan
sloane, president of the American So
ciety OF Arts and Letters, who spoke on
Inspiration"
The Presidents Letter.
A letter was read from President
Harding TO Chancellor Brown. In which
the President wrote:
TT is most pleasing to know that the
custom of formally unveiling new tablets
in the Hall of Fame is TO be resumed
and want to congratulate you on the
fact AS your letter says, The war and
other intervening conditions have inter-
fered with the placing of tablets Tor a.
considerable time l think we may all
agree that, at any rate. the war has
furnished us with new names and new
inspirations deserving OF places In the
Ealaxies OF fame, and cannot too earn
estly emphasize my hope that they may
in due time achieve the recognition
which we all appreciate Is ne them"
Hall Of Fame elections are held every
fifth year. When the fifth OF the series
was held In 1920 seven names were
chosen, among them that OF one woman,
Alice Freeman Palmer, educator. The
men named then, whose tablets also
were unveiled yesterday, were Samuel
I.anghorne Clemens mark Twain), au-
thor; Roger Williams, preacher and
/. theoloEian; James Buchanan Eads. en-
gineer; william Thomas Green Morton,
physician and surgeon: Patrick Henry.
in the class OF rulers and statesmen"
and Augustus Saint-Gaudcns, sculptor.
The remaining tablets unveiled yester-
day were those bearing the names OF
candidates chosen Mt elections previous
TO 1920. These were George Bancroft
historian; William Cullen Bryant, poet |;
Edgar Allan Poe. poet: Francis Park
man, historian: James Fenimore Cooper.
author; Oliver Wendell Holmes. poet !:
John Lothrop Motley. historian Mark
Hopkins. educator: Phillips Brooks.
preacher and theologian: Louis Agasssz,
scientist Joseph Henry scientist; elias
Howe, inventor Daniel Boone, explorer !;
Rufus Choatc. lawyer and jurist; An
drew Jackson. statesman: Alexander
Hamilton, statesman: Harriet Beecher
stowe. author; Francis Elizabeth VIII
lard, reformer, and Charlotte $. Cush-
man. actress.
Elihu Root. representing the Century
Association, stood sponsor for William
Cullen Bryant, and Robert Olyphant
representing the Sons Of the American
Revolution, for Patrick Henry. julia
Arthur unveiled the Charlotte $. Cush-
man tablet for the Stage Women Of
America. Lyman Beccher stowe. grand
son OF Harriet Beecher stowe, stood
by when Mrs John Francis Yawger Of
the National Society OF New England
\, omen loosed the flag from the tablet
commemoratlng the author OF Uncle
onn'B Cabin"