Show TH I 1 LA N A L L AV 1 fama I 1 I 1 le m MR rg 01 M R ak RK geow K P A 77 t R 71 11 J I 1 N I 1 N aze A I 1 M M 10 0 1 4 AA L Z Z xa yz r Y ff zima 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON OUR more great americans were honored recently when busts of 0 them made by leading sculptors of this country were unveiled in the hall of fame at new hew york university on university heights in new york city they represented achievement in widely different fields of activity for one was a sett scientist T another was a poet another other a lawyer and the fourth an inventor they th cy were louls agassiz john Cre greenleaf Creen leat whittier rufus hufus choate and samuel finley creese breese morse and the addition of 0 these four now brings the number of portrait sculptures which have al already been unveiled up to IS 48 so far 05 men and knien honien have love been elected to the hall of parne fame and bronze tablets commemorating mem orating their achievement have hate been pla placed ved but money tor for placing tile the busts of the remaining 17 has not yet been raised busts of 0 james madison henry clay and john paul jones have been prepared for their niches but at the time of the announcement of the plans for this years unveiling sufficient lelent funds had not been guaranteed to assure tile the inclusion of these three notables in the 1923 ceremony the history of the hall of fame in brief Is this on march 5 1000 the council of new york university accepted a gift of afterward to sa from a donor whose name was as withheld for the erection ind and completion on university heights new york city of a building called the hall of fame for great Amer americans lenns the hall was dedicated may hay 30 1001 alien heri twenty sli six national associations eack unveiled one of the bronze tablets in the colo nade may 3 SO 10 1007 eleven new tablets were unveiled orations being given by the governors of new york and massachusetts may 21 1921 twenty six new tablets uniel unveiled led april 27 1922 a temporary bust of gen U U S grant was unveiled by marshal joffre of france in may 1922 1022 busts were unveiled of edgar allan poe ioe george washington miss morin maria mitchell gilbert stuart and slark mark hopkins the busts of robert fulton and horace mann hart had been unveiled several years before may 22 1023 there were unveiled busts of n R W emerson 11 II W Dee deveber Be echor eber frances E U willard Wll lard U S grau permanent R K E lee alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln on may 13 1924 busts busis bus Is ivere unveiled of john adams rev phillips brooks samuel L clemens mark twain peter peler cooper james B aads joseph henry andrew jackson thomas jefferson william T 0 mw ton and alice F palmer on slay may 12 busts were unveiled of roger williams advocate of religious freedom and founder of rhode island james jamea kent chancellor of the state of new york daniel webster states roan man daniel boone explorer and frontiersman lf jonathan Cd wards theol theologian george peabody financier and educator ell whitney inventor of the cotton gin ein edin booth actor and augustus saint gaudens sculptor on may 5 1927 the following were honored john james audubon william allery channing preacher and theologian admiral david glasgow farra gut civil war naval commander benjamin franklin scientist and statesman washington irving irvcng man of letters and historian mary lyon founder of mount holyoke college massachusetts has good reason to took look upon the hall of prime faroe this year as something of a bay state triumph for of the four men thus honc honored tred she claims three as native sons and the fourth a citizen by adoption sleeps in her soil eoll in the shadow of her great university ilowe however ver there Is som something ething of the irony of fate in that two 6 of these sons of hers who ho later became world famous did not faro fare very v pry well at tier her hands in their youth she let one cue almost starve when lie ho was a struggling young pointer anil and she ostracized and virtually drove from her borders the other oilier when he be became a champion of 0 abolition at a time when that move merit was far from popular in I 1 new england samuel finley breese breece morse was the pointer painter morse was born in charlestown Charles town mass april 27 1791 when a student at yale lie he became interested interns la in art anil and upon Ns liis gr graduation actuation io in 1810 lie went to london to study under the famous benjamin west rn angland jand hailed hini him as a potentially great artist but when he returned to boston and set up ills his studio liis ills countrymen showed no interest in his pictures the inventive genius which was to make him famous later was wag alive even i then and in esig lie and his brother invented an improvement in a pump for a fire engine although ell whitney linen tor of the cotton gin and president jeremiah day of yale tale were enthusiastic over the invention the public was not finally morse decided to go to new york and continue ills career as an artist and there in the face of discouragement and poverty persisted until lie he gained the recognition which lie he deserved although at the age of forty lie seemed committed to an artistic career lie was still inhere interested sted in invention and in while returning front from europe lu rope got the idea for the electromagnetic electro magnetic magnette telegraph from a certain dr diaries charles T jackson ot of boston who was a passenger on the same ship morse perfected ills his invention it in 1837 and for the next few years vainly tried to get con gress to appropriate funds to develop its use success came it at last chec he had all but aban boned hope and when the day came for the official demonstration the ines message sage chich holcli was taked ti bcd oil off over tile the line which led from the united states senate cha chamber chariker riber to baltimore SO 80 miles away was what hath bath end cod wrought morse lived to see ills his epoch making invention used all over oer the world and all vahen lie he died clied in 1872 lie carried to tits ills grave in greenwood cemetery in new york city tile greatest honors that hint the nations of the world could bestow upon him the story of john greenleaf whittier whittler the be loved quaker poet the american robert burns la Is similar in ID some respects to that of norse morse tie lie was bom boin december IT 17 1807 at haverhill IIa mass its his youth was as one of toll toil as a farmer boy until a wandering scotchman a tramp struck the poetic fire in ills his soul by reciting some gome of burns lines to him through a devoted sister and the editor of the local newspaper later famous as william lloyd garrison the prophet of abolition the boys verses vers es were vere published and he be was given a u chance for better schooling nis ills contributions to the alie new england weekly review carried his name afar and by 1830 he be was editor of that journal but the death of 0 his father took him back to the rocky hillside near haverhill and there he remained for chrt e years in the meantime the abolition movement WWI wai gaining ground and it was a cause which appealed to the young poet lie ile became secre tary of the antislavery anti slavery society and editor of tile the Ifa gazette which lie made an abolition organ cut but abolition was anathema to the new england mill owners and whittier was forced to leave tile the state its as were garrison and others after a short time in new york whittier went to philadelphia as editor of the freeman and there a mob sacked ills his office and threatened ills his life in 1840 lie he returned to amesbury mass to make inake his home and when the slavery issue was raised again after tile the mexican war or lie he wont went to washington to become editor of the national an antislavery paper when tile the civil war ended tile the question of slavery for all time whittler whittier returned to liis its home in massachusetts an and d the belligerent abolitionist once more became the quaker poet desirous to lo bury in the waters of oblivion all the bitter things I 1 said tit iii the s strife I 1 rl fe when the centennial celebration came in 1876 lie was chosen to write the ode which should sing the glories of tte tie nation on its ita one hundredth ell 11 w birthday cut but for all this honor and the man many y others that came to him film lie remained the cimpl e poet of the people beloved by simple people all over the world end and by none more than those of n his own state among whom he be died on september 7 1892 the third son of the bay state who bagoon ored in the halt hall of fame tills this year ear was 11 1 choate lawyer orator and scholar of abo wl was once said ills personal magnetism comi come with tits ills wealth of learning and his strong place him among the greatest forensic aavo that america has produced ile he may fairly ranked as the equal of lord erskine Ersk lne ct was born at essex mass october 1 1799 while a student at dartmouth college lie ile so strongly influenced by the great speed daniel webster in the famous dartmouth rd en case that he determined to study law aftel aate graduation from dartmouth in 1819 1810 lie he att st another year in that institution and then eal benl enl the law school at harvard after a brief till the office of the attorney general of the uj ui states lie he opened his law office in danvers 11 IV and in 1830 was elected to congress distinguished himself the next year by a sr on tb the tariff in 1841 choate was elected to tile the united S senate in the place of daniel webster nho I 1 lieen een appointed secretary of state by alart II arrison non and soot soon proved that ile he avns a w successor of the great orator among ills his brilliant speeches spee clies which are ranked among greatest ever delivered in tile the senate were t on the oregon boundary the lie tariff the esral hman bill tile the smithsonian institution and the annexation of texas for tile next nett twenty years he was prominent in national affairs until his health balled and lie he died in nova july 13 isrl while on a journey to europe to seek to regain ills his lost health 1 I cannot lifford to waste time in milking making money once declared louis Agns agassiz 17 and it in that sentence he summed up tits his lifelong devotion to the ideal that made him one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known although he was born in switzerland america claims him ng as tier her own since lie he came to this country in SIG 1816 at the age of thirty nine and spent the rest of his ufa life here at one time napoleon III of france offered him tile the directorship of the great paris carls botanical gardens and a vat in the french sentile senate ate both great honors find highly remunerative put reply was that lie he found the alie fauna and flora of this country too interesting ever eier to desire to leave it nature study was wag his all absorbing passion tie ile g gave eighteen hours of every day to it there Is never a moment except when I 1 am as asleep 1 cep that I 1 am not joyfully occupied lie once said sah give me the hours you say bore you tint and I 1 will receive them as most precious gifts lie ile cared nothing for money 1 I tint am not a quarter of n dollar ahead in the world and never neer hope to be is another of tits his statements and this was made at a time when business began to be a god in this country ry by his hij personality and tits ills devotion to science he awoke ln in americans a greater appreciation for the work of the scientists and lie did much to tit popularize nature study tit in this tou fou agassiz died in 1873 and his grave in cambridge mass Is 13 r marked by a amassie rd assle bo NOler from in land where some of ills earliest geological studies were carried on |