The New Student's Reference Work/Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame, a colonnade 500 feet in length on University Heights in New York City, its full title being the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. It is built to commemorate the greatest citizens of the United States, whose names are here inscribed on bronze tablets. To be eligible to the Hall of Fame, one must have been born a citizen of the United States and have been dead ten years. Nominations are made by the public and are submitted to a committee of 100 eminent citizens. In the case of men 51 votes are required, and in the case of women, 47. In 1900 the following names were chosen and inscribed: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Fulton, Washington Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F. B. Morse, David Glasgow Farragut, Henry Clay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Peabody, Robert E. Lee, Peter Cooper, Eli Whitney, John James Audubon, Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher, James Kent, Joseph Story, John Adams, William Ellery Channing, Gilbert Stuart and Asa Gray. In 1905 the following additional names were chosen: John Quincy Adams, James Russell Lowell, William T. Sherman, James Madison, John G. Whittier, Alexander Hamilton, Louis Agassiz, John Paul Jones, Mary Lyon, Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell.