NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 
 
 THE HALL OF FAME 
 
 UNVEILING of BUSTS 
 AT THE COLONNADE 
 UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS 
 NEW YORK CITY 
 
 Thursday, May 21, 1925, at 3:30 o'clock 
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 The Chancellor of J^ew York ^ University 
 ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN 
 
 The "Director of the Hall of Fame 
 
 ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON 
 Presiding 
 
' AVERT 
 
THE HALL OF FAME: PROCESSIONAL 
 
 With kindling hearts again we tread 
 The pathway of the mighty dead, 
 Where meet and pass their spirits high 
 Who, tasting death, disdained to die. 
 
 We hail them, fathers of the free 
 And prophets of our destiny, 
 Who from their starry height control 
 The tides that flood a Nation's soul. 
 
 In high humility we claim 
 Our birthright in their hallowed fame ; 
 With widening vision we would rise 
 To the horizon of their eyes. 
 
 God of our Fathers, grant that we, 
 Who keep their sacred memory, 
 Fail not when prophecy again 
 Shall smite and rouse the souls of men. 
 
 Elmer Ellsworth Brown 
 
 (From " Victory and Other Verse") 
 
Order of Exercises 
 
 The procession will form in the Rotunda of the University Library 
 and proceed through the Colonnade of the Hall of Fame to the Pavilion, 
 where the busts will be unveiled in the order given below: 
 
 JOHN MARSHALL 
 
 The bust, by Herbert Adams, will be presented on behalf of the 
 donors, Members of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 
 (through Henry D. Williams, Esq.), by Henry W. Taft, Esq., President 
 of the Association, and will be unveiled by W. W. Braxton, Esq., great- 
 grandson of the Chief-Justice. Hon. William H. Taft, Chief-Justice of 
 the United States, will make a brief tribute by radio from Washington, 
 and Hon. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain and for- 
 mer President of the American Bar Association, will make an address. 
 
 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN 
 
 The bust, a replica of the one made from life by Augustus Saint- 
 Gaudens, was provided by subscription through the Union Society of 
 the Civil W 7 ar and the Army and Navy Club of America, and the pres- 
 entation will be by Thomas Ewing, Esq., President of the Union 
 Society of the Civil War. It will be unveiled by P. Tecumseh Sherman, 
 Esq., son of the General. General John J. Pershing, General of the 
 Armies of the United States (Retired), will make a brief tribute by radio 
 from Washington, and Major-General Charles P. Summerall, U. S. A., 
 Commander Second Corps Area, will speak. 
 
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN 
 
 The bust, by Frances Grimes, was provided by popular subscrip- 
 tion, the fund being the gift chiefly of men and women of the Stage 
 and of admirers and relatives of Miss Cushman. It will be presented 
 by John Drew, Esq., President of The Players, and unveiled by Dr. 
 Allerton S. Cushman, great-nephew of Miss Cushman. Otis Skinner, Esq., 
 will speak. 
 
 ASA GRAY 
 
 The bust, by Chester Beach, is the gift of The Gray Herbarium 
 of Harvard University and of friends and relatives of Dr. Gray, and 
 will be presented by Miss Katharine P. Loring, niece of Mrs. Asa Gray. 
 Miss Alice A. Gray, niece of Dr. Gray, will unveil the bust. Dr. 
 Charles W. Eliot, President-Emeritus of Harvard, will make a tribute 
 by phonofilm, and Professor Benjamin L. Robinson, Curator of the Her- 
 barium, will speak. 
 
 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 
 
 The bust, by Brenda Putnam, is the gift of The New York City 
 Colony of the National Society of New England Women, and will be 
 presented by Mrs. Arthur H. Bridge, President of the Colony. It will 
 be unveiled by Dr. Freeman Allen, grandson of Mrs. Stowe, and Rev. 
 S. Parkes Cadman, D.D., President of the Federal Council of Churches 
 of Christ in America, will speak. 
 
 Special acknowledgments of courteous assistance are due to the Radio Corpora- 
 tion of America, which will broadcast the entire ceremony; to Dr. LeeDe Forest for 
 the phonofilm of Dr. Eliot, which he has personally arranged, and to the Western 
 Electric Company for the use of the Public Address System. 
 
MUSIC BY THE GLORIA TRUMPETERS: 
 
 On leaving the Library: Hymn of New York University 
 
 "The Palisades" 
 
 f" Coronation March" 
 
 i 
 
 Processionals: -J March from the second movement 
 
 of the "Lenore" Symphony 
 
 Kretschmer 
 
 Raff 
 
 At the Unveiling of the Busts : 
 
 Marshall "O Columbia, the Gem of the 
 
 Ocean" - David T. Shaw 
 
 Sherman "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the 
 
 Boys are Marching" - George F. Root 
 
 Cushman Theme from "Romeo and 
 
 Juliet" - Gounod 
 
 • To a Wild Rose - - MacBowell 
 
 Gray 
 
 Stowe 
 
 "Still, Still with Thee" 
 
 (The words of this hymn were written 
 by Mrs. Stowe) 
 
 "The Star-Spangled Banner" 
 
 Barnby 
 
 Recessional: March from "Aida" 
 
 V erdi 
 
 Members of the Gloria Trumpeters: 
 
 KATHERINE WILLIAMS 
 LOUISE GURA 
 
 CORA ROBERTS 
 MABEL COAPMAN 
 
 Originator of the Hall of Fame — The late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, D.D., 
 
 Former Chancellor of New York University 
 Donor of the Edifice — Mrs. Finley J. Shepard 
 
 Architects of the Colonnade and Adjoining Buildings — McKim, Mead & White 
 Members of the Art Committees — Paul Wayland Bartlett, James Earle Fraser, Anna 
 
 Vaughan Hyatt, Robert I. Aitken, Herbert Adams 
 Director of Public Occasions — Henry Cook Hathaway 
 Grand Marshal — Albert Stephens Borgman 
 
PRESIDENT ELIOT'S TRIBUTE TO DR. ASA GRAY 
 
 The Hall of Fame, in passing down to posterity the name and 
 lineaments of Asa Gray, is commemorating one of the most fortunate 
 and happiest of American students and teachers. He was fortunate in 
 that his career lay within a period when North America was first being 
 thoroughly explored and its botanical treasures brought to light, and in 
 that he was free alike from the restrictions of poverty and from the 
 incumbrances of luxury. Although he had no children, his home life illus- 
 trated a remark of his friend Charles Robert Darwin, that "with natural 
 history and the domestic affections a man can be perfectly happy." 
 
 His active pursuit of botany took him out-of-doors, and made him 
 intimate with Nature in all her moods and in all her dimensions from 
 colossal to microscopic. His study of botany in broad America required 
 him to travel much, brought him into contact with many scholars of 
 various nationalities, and gave him many friendships founded on com- 
 mon tastes and mutual services. All these were elements of happi- 
 ness — love of Nature, acquaintance with the wide earth, intercourse with 
 congenial minds, and abiding friendships. With simplicity of life went 
 health and a remarkable capacity for work enjoyed. 
 
 His reputation at home and abroad, however, was much larger than 
 that of a botanical specialist. He was recognized as a clear thinker and 
 strong writer on philosophical and religious themes. 
 
 Finally, Asa Gray enjoyed the satisfaction of having rendered a 
 great and lasting service to his countrymen and to mankind. He knew 
 that he had done much to diffuse among his countrymen a knowledge 
 of botany and a love for it, that he had placed on firm foundations the 
 Botanical Department of Harvard University, and that the collections 
 he had created there would have for future generations great historical 
 and scientific interest. To have rendered such services was solid foun- 
 dation indeed for heartfelt content. 
 
 May his effigy here long suggest to future generations what the dur- 
 able satisfactions of life really are. 
 
NOTE 
 
 The names to be inscribed in the Hall of Fame are chosen every five years by a 
 College of Electors consisting of approximately one hundred American men and women 
 of distinction representing all sections of the country and several professions. Following, 
 in order of selection, are the names of the sixty-three persons in whose honor tablets 
 have been placed by the University, the busts and pedestals being the gift ot cooperating 
 associations or individuals. 
 
 IN THE HALL OF FAME 
 
 George Washington* 
 
 Mary Lyon 
 
 James Fenimore Cooper 
 
 Abraham Lincoln* 
 
 |ohn fames Audubon 
 
 Phillips Brooks* 
 
 Daniel Webster 
 
 James Kent 
 
 Emma Willard 
 
 Benjamin Franklin 
 
 Henrv Ward Beecher* 
 
 Alexander Hamilton* 
 
 Ulvsses Simpson Grant* 
 
 ]oseph Storv 
 
 Mark Hopkins* 
 
 John Marshall* 
 
 lohn Adams* 
 
 Francis Parkman 
 
 Thomas Jefferson* 
 
 William Ellery Channing 
 
 Louis Agassiz 
 
 Ralph Wddo Emerson* 
 
 Gilbert Charles Stuart* 
 
 Elias Howe 
 
 Robert Fulton* 
 
 Asa Grav* 
 
 1 1 T T •£? 
 
 Joseph Henry* 
 
 Henrv Wadsworth Longfellow 
 
 John Quincv Adams 
 
 Rufus Choate 
 
 Washington Irving 
 
 james Russell Lowell 
 
 Daniel Boone 
 
 Jonathan Edwards 
 
 William Tecumseh Sherman* 
 
 Frances Elizabeth Willard* 
 
 Samuel Finlev Breese Morse 
 
 Charlotte Cushman* 
 
 Samuel Langhorne Clemens* 
 
 David Glascoe Farragut 
 Henrv Clay 
 
 Harriet Beecher Stowe* 
 George Peabody 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne 
 Peter Cooper* 
 Eli Whitney 
 
 James Madison 
 John Greenleaf Whittier 
 William Cullen Brvant 
 George Bancroft 
 Andrew Jackson* 
 John Lothrop Motley 
 Maria Mitchell* 
 
 (" Mark Twain ") 
 
 Roger Williams 
 James Buchanan Eads* 
 William Thos. Green Morton 
 Patrick Henrv 
 Augustus Saint-Gaudens 
 Alice Freeman Palmer* 
 
 Robert Edward Lee* 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes 
 
 
 Horace Mann* 
 
 Edgar Allan Poe* 
 
 
 * Busts in place (including those unveiled May 21, 1925). Several subscriptions have been begun 
 with the purpose of providing other busts. 
 
 N. B. — Societies or persons interested in the presentation of busts not yet in place are kindly requested 
 to communicate with the Director, 331 Mad son Avenue, New York, in order to learn the conditions 
 governing such cooperation. 
 
THE HALL OF FAME, AT NIGHT 
 
 By day, the city's noise and blight 
 
 Usurp the spirit's throne; 
 The silence of the truthful night 
 
 Restores it to its own. 
 
 The enginery of toil is still, 
 Remote are grief and wars; 
 
 Yet vocal is the quiet hill 
 Beneath the throng of stars. 
 
 Not here shall Sorrow come to weep; 
 
 Here pilgrim feet rejoice. 
 Not here the great departed sleep, 
 
 Each is a living voice. 
 
 Elsewhere, in pride of turf or tomb, 
 Their welcome dust was laid; 
 
 But stranger to such solemn gloom 
 This sacred Colonnade. 
 
 Not saints nor demigods we greet, 
 
 But kindred of our sod, 
 Who, with far eyes and faithful feet, 
 
 Our course of nature trod. 
 
 I wander in the silver night 
 
 Along this Path of Fame, 
 And catch some voice of cheer or might 
 
 At every cherished name. 
 
 From out the Poets' Corner rings 
 
 Full many a voice of Pan, 
 While Emerson supremely sings 
 
 The nobleness of Man. 
 
 Here Science tells more wondrous tales 
 
 Than Fancy ever saw, 
 And shows behind a hundred veils 
 
 The friendliness of Law. 
 
 What brooding spirits haunt the place, 
 
 To guide the steps that stray, 
 To hail our service to the race, 
 
 Or shame our recreant day ! 
 
 I wander onward to the site 
 
 Where stand the names of State, 
 
 And view the first that all men write 
 When they record the great. 
 
 I greet his calm face with a thrill; 
 
 His voice sounds from above — 
 The Father's, to whose mighty will 
 
 We owe the land we love: 
 
 "The world is calling: will ye lag, 
 
 Or harken to vour soul? 
 We fixed the stars upon the flag 
 
 To make the sky your goal. 
 
 "When Greed has laid its vulgar hand 
 
 Upon the Ark we bore, 
 Come, faithful of our patient land, 
 
 And here your faith restore. 
 
 " The freedom that we planned for all 
 Let no false thought dethrone: 
 
 Who puts his neighbor's faith in thrall 
 Is traitor to his own. 
 
 " What we for Fortune plucked from Fate, 
 
 We summon vou to save — 
 You who would keep your country great, 
 
 Yourselves be true and brave." 
 
 O ye, that gladlv paid the price 
 That made your names renowned, 
 
 The precincts of your sacrifice 
 Are our most holy ground. 
 
 Robert Underwood Johnson.