A letter was read from President !
Harding to Chancellor Brown, in which
the President wrote:
"It Is most pleasing to know that the
custom of formally unveiling new tablets
In the Hall of Fame Is to be resumed
and I want to congratulate you on the
fact. As your letter says, 'The war and
other Intervening conditions have Inter
fered with the placing of tablets for a?
considerable time.' I think we may all
agree that, at any rate, the war has
furnished us with new names and new
inspirations deserving of places In the
galaxies of fame, and I cannot too earn
estly emphasize my hope that they may
In due time achieve the recognition
which we all appreciate Is^ae them."
Hall of Fame elections are held every
fifth year. When the fifth of the series
was held In 1920 seven names were
chosen, among them that of one woman,
Alice Freeman Palmer, educator. The
tnen named then, whose tablets also :
were unveiled yesterday, were 8amuel
Langborne Clemens (Mark Twain), au
thor ; Roger Williams, preacher ' and j
theologian ; James Buchanan Eada, en- i
glneer; William Thomas Oreesi Morton. |
physician and surgeon; Patrick Henry. I
In the claas of "rulers and statesmen," '
and Augustus Salnt-Oaudens. sculptor. j
The remaining tablets unveiled yester
day were those bearing the names of j
candidates chosen at elections previous j
to 1920. These were George Bancroft,
historian: William Cutlen Bryant, poet; j
Edgar Allan Poe, poet; Francis Park-1
man, historian; James Fenlmore Cooper
author; Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet; I
John Lothrop Motley, historian; Mark j
Hopkins, educator: Phillips Brooks
preacher and theologian; Louis Ageeolz.
