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Show HOW NUNY CAN IfOU IDENTIFY? Twenty New Names to Be Added Soon to List in U. S. Hall of Fame Hj LORRY A. JACOBS. N I . A Maff Correspondent NEW YORK Aug 1 nit of the list of those whose namis appear In America's Hall of Fnme, how many can you Identify? Do you know for whnt they were fnmous? A recent poll, taken at a New York unlerslt, revealed that but one student stu-dent knew the entire list FIFTY-SIX iv Tin: list The present list, to which 20 more irr soon to be added, contains the following: fol-lowing: Ralph Waldo Emerson Henrj Wadaworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, Junies Huseell Lowell, Aira-ham Aira-ham Lincoln, George Bancroft, u'li- llam t'ullen Bryant, James Fenlmore Cooper, 11 Wendell Holmes, lohn i-. Motlex , F.dftar Alen I'oe, Frnncls I'srknian. Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher, Jonathan Edwards, Mark Hopkins William B, Channlng, lhllllps i-O"!;- Peter Cooper George Peabodj John J. Audubon. Asa Gray I,i.'iIp Agnsslz. Joseph Henry, Robert Pulton, Hnmuel F. B Morse. Ell Whltne'-. Ellas Howe. Daniel Boone, David G Farragut. I'lysses S Grant, Robert F Lee. Nathaniel liawtbome, William T Sherman "?lllert Stuart, James Kent. John Marshall, Joseph Piory. Rufui Choate, John Adams, Henry Clay. Ben-, IJamln Franklin, Thomas Jefferson j John Greenleaf Whlttler, George I Washington, Daniel Webstar, James Madison. John Quinry Adams. Mnr I Lyon. Andrew Jacknon, flnrnia Wll- lard Alexander Hamilton. Harriet I Beecher Htowo, Frances E. Wlllsrd, ' Maria Mitchell Charlotte s Cushman One of the rules is that ou hae to be dead before you are eligible to the Hall of Fame ottmar Mergen- thaler Samuel 1 loinenn, Charles Dana, , Horace Greeley. Roger William.- John Paul Jones. Pocahontas. Hflen Hunt Jackson, Susan B Anthony and Dolly il asters sem sure 10 b among the list that will he named b November first ESTABLISHED IK 1900 The American Hall of Fame was "s'nbllshed 20 years ago by an unnamed un-named friend of the New York mil -er.sit The fund was then 1100,000 and later Increased to 1100,000 Henr) Mitchell AicCracken was the flrsi director. di-rector. He was succeeded bjl Robert fJnderWOOd Johnson and Mrs William , anamme. is acting director while rr Johnson is in Europe. The electorate eorslsts of authors, educators, editors, presidents of universities uni-versities and colleges, scientists Jurists, historians, high public officials and men of affairs of 3 4 states Election takes plai-e, rverv five years The Hall of Fame is in a collonade; which circles one of the buildings of the New York university. |