Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-04-11 | Page 20 | The Hall of Fame

The flail Hall of Fame A timo time ha hag lias come for the thc selection oC ot names A for n a in the HaIL of or for Great Americans Amer katis at nt New York university By B the tho terms of the gift ift fifty panels were to bo he filled in 1900 and five fic at atthe atthe the thc dose close of every five years thereafter Nominations are arc made matte b by the thc public and those seconded by any member mem mem- the submitted d to a n committee com cam b ber r of f the university senate arc of one hundred citizens a majority of votes bein bein be be- in necessary to a n choice Originally only names of ot persons born horn in the thc present territory of the United States and deceased cd at it least ten years cars were wre eligible Supplementary rules later bO however er e pro provided led for fat the the commemoration of gr great t Americans of foreign nativity and 1111 for a hall hail of fame for women The Phe Hall of Fame is a n semi circular structure two stories tories in height The Thc second story is n a colonnade GOO feet in length joining three of the university buildings and containing panels for the inscription of the Uie names of famous Americans The first story consists of a long corridor and ana six sL separate rooms which arc eventually to constitute the museum of the HuH Hall of Fame designed to preserve mementoes of persons whose names are arc commemorated there Already the panels contain tho the name of LOll Longfellow Irving Ining Beecher Washington Fulton for Moi Mord c Grant Farra Farragut ut Lincoln Lee Webster Franklin Jefferson Jefferson Jef Jer ferson Clay Peabody Lowell Hamilton amilton Whittier hilti r Agassiz Mary Marv rJ o Emma Willard Maria Mitchell Holmes Poe Poc Harriet Beecher Stowe Mark Hopkins Rufus Choate Charlotte Cushinan Daniel Dnniel Boone Roone and amI many others other The first nomination of or a negros negro's name was vas made recent recently It was that of Frederick Douglass who began began be be- gan life as ns a slave c anti and lived to become famous as a champion of or abolition and woman suffrage and a as the foremost negro orator journalist and statesman of his time He died in Washington D. D C. C February 20 aged IS 78 Names of several women live haAe been suggested Among them are arc Susan B. B Anthony Anthon pioneer suffragist and Barbara arbara whom Whittier immortalized in verse erse The following artists have C been sn suggested George Inness Homer D. D Martin and Alexander H. H Wy Wy- y ant Other Bother names natues to be lc passed upon by the university senate arc Henry Bergh founder of tIle the society for tho the prevention of cruelty to animals and Drs Titus M. M Coan John Murray urmy Carnochan Lewis Henry Morgan and William Shippen Jr Fourteen names will be bo chosen from the total number proposed in 1920 1020