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Show HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS ADDS SIX BUSTS ny , l r i :mmmmjmM -!H- 4 s " "f- ' jfef .:m M9mmmm AOIK Sv 1; PttPSS ' X .S ! ? WASHINGTON ' "f J"'"""""- GuSiW N.-se IRVING '.: FAbRAGUr XnJ. " t&J&y ' ' rM Ball of Fame for Great Americans whlcb Is located on Uc campus of New York University x I7nlvrslty Heights. New York City, wu visited on May S by . ro&ay thousands of people who cune from many different states and foreign countries to witness the unveiling of the busts of the Mtx great Americans pictured abcrre- The busts are the gifts of patriotic organizations, groups and isdivlflnals. honoring persons whose names have already been inscribed in-scribed in the Hall. Many de-scendenta de-scendenta of the persons honored, together with distintrnlshed repre- sentatives of professions and arts associated with their memory participated par-ticipated in the ceremonies, at which Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson, director of the Hall of Fame presided. j Of the sixty-five personages so far honored by election to the Hall of Fame and in memory of whom bronze tablets have been permanently installed there only forty-four of the immortals have busts surmounting their respective niches: Robert Kulton. Horace Mann, U. S. Grant. George Washington. Wash-ington. Mark Hiipklns, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Edfjar Allen Poe. Maria Mitchell. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Em-erson, Henry Ward Bet-her. Frances Fran-ces Elizabeth Willard. Robert E. Lee, Alexander Hamilton. Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, John Adams. Phillips Brooks. Daniel Boone. Edwin j ! Booth, Jonathan Edwards. James j Kent, George Peabody. Augustus j ! Saint-Gaudens. Daniel Whster. I Eli Whitn'-v. Roger Williams.! Samuel Lan -.rue Clemens, eler ! Cooper, .l:i:u;js Buchanan Eads. ; Joseph Hunry. Andrew Jackson. I Thomas Jefferson. William Thomas: G-retta Morton. A lice Freeman P;it- mer 'Harriet Br-echer Stowe. Wil- i liam T. Jvbf-.rrnan. John Marshall.! Asa Gra.y. Charlotte Cushniari. : John Jamps Auduhon. William ; raiery Channlng. Benjamin Vtjik-: Vtjik-: Un. Mary Lyon, David Glasjw FarraguU Washington Irving. The persons who have tablets but whose ; busts have not as yet' ! been presented . to the Hall of' j Fame are: John Qulncy Adams. 1 Louis Agassiz, George Bancroft. : William Cullen Bryant, Rufus j Choate. Henry Clay. James Feni-i Feni-i more Cooper. Nathaniel Haw. ! thorne. Patrick Henry. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Ellas Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell. James Madison. Mad-ison. Samuel Ftnley Breese Morse. John Lothrop Motley. Francis Parkman. Joseph Story. John Oreenleaf Whlttier. Emma Willard and John Paul Jones. Candidates to the Hall of Fame are chosen every five years by approximately ap-proximately one hundred electors 'ornposed of representative American Ameri-can citizens. Only Americans who have been, dead !W twenty-five years it- !iir, for election. |