Over his long and useful life, conscience, reason and patriotism presided, with the kindly affections, and to the respect and admiration of the wisest and noblest of his day, succeeding generations have each added their increasing approbation.

And so in perpetual evidence of this just approval we erect to-day this simple but grateful memorial.

John Quincy Adams.

The Chancellor said:

The second name in point of age to be added to the Roll of Famous Statesmen is John Quincy Adams, who was born 140 years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to the Sons of the American Revolution, who are represented to-day by Hon. Warren Higley, W. W. J. Warren, William M. Crane, Louis A. Ames and J. de la Montanye. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker, the Hon. Warren Higley.

Judge Higley said:

Patriotism is the bulwark of liberty! Its divine fire was the beacon light that cheered our revolutionary fathers on to victory, and it still glows warm in the hearts of every true American citizen.

The fame of the dead is the heritage and inspiration of the living. A truly great life begins but never ends. To pay the tribute of gratitude due to a great and useful life which began in a quiet New England town 140 years ago; to set up for ourselves an index of our own best ideals and to hold up a noble example for the emulation of future generations, we claim from the past another name to inscribe on the rolls of our Nation's Immortals.

In memory of an illustrious father's illustrious son, accomplished scholar, wise diplomat and eminent statesman; in time of war the emissary of peace; patriotic defender of our new-born Republic; raised to the highest office in the people's gift; great American commoner! Fearless champion of Christian liberty! Devoted friend of man! In the name of the National Society of

the Sons of the American Revolution, I unveil this tablet, and dedicate to American citizenship the name of John Quincy Adams.

William Tecumseh Sherman.

The procession moved to the music of "The Stars and Stripes to the section of the Colonnade devoted to soldiers, where a platform was placed near the tablet of Grant. The Chancellor said:

The One Hundred Electors have added to the three names of warriors, inscribed in the year 1900, the name of William Tecumseh Sherman. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to the Grand Army of the Republic, who are represented to-day, under the appointment of the Commander-inChief, by Judge James A. Blanchard, Col. Charles F. Homer and Col. Allan C. Blakewell, all of Lafayette Post. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker, Judge James A. Blanchard.

Judge Blanchard said:

Nature made William Tecumseh Sherman a great soldier. Educated by his country he gave her in return his supreme devotion. "On no account," he said, "will I do any act or think any thought hostile to the government of the United States." From Puritan ancestry he inherited an indomitable will and a powerful mind which study disciplined and enriched. When the Civil War came, his clear mental vision foresaw and predicted the magnitude of the struggle. He promptly offered his services and began his career of illustrious achievement.

Obedient to superiors, kind to subordinates, without envy, he inspired confidence and rose to independent command. Energetic and intense, and at the same time alert, resourceful and sagacious, he waged a warfare of relentless destruction. He was stern in his purpose and unremitting in its performance. With cyclonic force he swept everything before him from Shiloh to Atlanta and the sca, joined his beloved commander and mustered out of service the finest army ever seen on this continent. His ambition began and ended with being a soldier. When asked to run for President, and his election certain, his answer was: "I will not

accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected," and no one doubted his word. The only honor which a grateful Nation could persuade him to accept was appointment to the head of the army.

Victorious in war, he was magnanimous in peace. Charitable to his focs; generous to his soldiers; loyal to his friends and faithful to home and country, his character no less than his mighty deeds entitle him to imperishable fame and place him among "the immortal few who were not born to die."

Horace Mann.

To the air of "The Red, White and Blue," the procession marched to the Teacher's Section of the Colonnade, where a platform was placed immediately back of the space devoted to Horace Mann. The Chancellor said:

The plan of the Hall of Fame includes the placing upon the parapet above each bronze tablet either a statue of bronze of the famous American commemorated by the tablet or his portrait bust in bronze raised upon a pedestal. To-day, for the first, a beginning is made in carrying out this plan by the acceptance of a portrait bust of Horace Mann given in the name of the Teachers of America and set upon a pedestal of Milford, Mass., granite, quarried a short journey from the birthplace of this famous teacher. The unveiling of this bust is assigned to the National Educational Association, which is represented here to-day by two of its ex-presidents, Dr. William H. Maxwell, of New York City, and Dr. J. M. Green, of Trenton, N. J. I have the honor of introducing as its speaker, Doctor Maxwell.

Doctor Maxwell said:

Whether we regard the immediate effects of the work of Horace Mann while he lived, or their indirect results which endure to the present hour, his achievements accomplished in the face of extraordinary difficulties mark him as one of the foremost benefactors of the human race. His youth was tried in the furnace of hard manual labor, of poverty, of sickness, of scant opportunities for education. In his manhood he had to do battle with the lukewarmness of friends and the abuse of enemies, the

jealousies of political powers and of religious denominations, the opposition of private interests and the deep-rooted conservatism of the masses. But the burning zeal of the missionary, the clear vision and straight thinking of the statesman, that were born in him, triumphed over every obstacle. As a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts, he devoted himself to the amelioration of the lives of those unfortunates who are bereft of the light of reason, and the State Asylum at Worcester was the result. As a Member of Congress his voice was raised in the anti-slavery cause against the extension of slavery to the Territories. As a college president he established the propriety of coeducation of the sexes. But it is in his work for the public schools that we find his most exalted title to fame and his most enduring service to the human race. The twelve years during which he held the office of secretary to the Massachusetts Board of Education are the most momentous years in the history of American education. The schools of Massachusetts had fallen from the high estate in which they had been established by the Puritan and Pilgrim fathers, until they had come to be regarded as fit only for the children of those who could not pay for education in private institutions. The teachers were all untrained and the majority of them ignorant; the methods of teaching were memoriter and mechanical to the last degree; the discipline was cruel and inhuman; and the administration machinery crude and unbusinesslike. With no resource but confidence in the righteousness of his cause, with no help but the support that came from a board of education which had power neither of initiative nor of constraint, he established the schools of the Commonwealth on a firm foundation and restored them to the people of Massachusetts, high and low, rich and poor alike.

He heard the bitter cry of the children, and he waged relentless war on the pedant who knows no means of discipline but through the rod and no way of teaching but through the memory. He saw the schools were languishing through lack of adequate support and he invoked the taxing power of the State to come to their rescue. He recognized the fact that intellectual vigor without ethical principle and physical health is dangerous alike to the State and to the individual; and he advocated ethical

training and laid the foundation of the now prevalent system of physical training. He saw that if the public schools are to do their perfect work and subserve the purposes of a noble democracy, the teachers must be trained to teach; and he secured the establishment of the first American Normal School at Lexington. And the voice that cried from the State House in Boston was a voice "heard round the world." It reverberates in every schoolroom in America and its influence is felt to the remotest corners of the earth.

What was the secret of Horace Mann's power?" I have faith,' he wrote on the day he accepted office, "in the improvability of the race in their accelerating improvability." The secret of his power was a sublime faith in the virtue of the people's schools, rightly managed and rightly taught to raise the American people to high and ever higher levels of usefulness and virtue. As men died at Gettysburg that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth, so Horace Mann lived in Massachusetts.

Upon the close of Superintendent Maxwell's address, the Students' Glee Club of New York University sang their college song, "The Palisades" of which both the words and the music were the composition of an undergraduate student.

John Greenleaf Whittier.

Then to the air of "Yankee Doodle" the procession moved to the Author's Corner, where a platform stood against the Hall of Languages. The Chancellor said:

The One Hundred Electors have added to the four authors

enrolled by them in 1900, two new names. The first of these in point of age is John Greenleaf Whittier, who was born 100 years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing his name is assigned to "The Peace Society" which is represented here to-day by the appointment of the President, Andrew Carnegie, by Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, Secretary of the American Peace Society, and by Albert J. Smiley, Founder of the Lake Mohonk Arbitration Conference. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker, Doctor Trueblood.