to be first used shall be named the Washington Gallery, and shall be set apart so soon as ten or more portraits of the persons inscribed shall be accepted for permanent preservation by the University. The other rooms shall be named and set apart for the exclusive use above specified so soon as their space shall, in the judgment of the University, be needed for the purpose of the Museum of the Hall of Fame. In the meantime they may be devoted to ordinary college uses. The outer western wall of the Hall of Languages and of the Hall of Philosophy, which look into the Hall of Fame, shall be treated as a part of the same, and no inscription shall be placed upon them except such as relate to the great names inscribed in the 150 panels. Statues and busts of the great Americans chosen may be assigned places cither in the Museum of the Hall of Fame, or in the Hall of Fame itself, as the givers of the same may decide with the approval of the University.

Supplemental Article.

Adopted by New York University, February 8, 1904.

1. An edifice in the form of a loggia, about one hundred feet in length, designed for the commemoration of great Americans of foreign nativity will be joined as soon as means shall have been provided, to the north end of the present Hall of Fame with harmonious architecture, to contain space for at least twenty-five memorial tablets. Six of these shall be set apart in the year 1905 for the commemoration of six American men of foreign birth who shall then have been deceased ten years. An additional panel shall be devoted to one name each succeeding five years throughout the twentieth century. The rules heretofore adopted for the Hall of Fame will be observed in the choosing of these names. Until the loggia shall have been builded the tablets inscribed with the names of great Americans of foreign nativity will be placed upon the walls of the Museum of the Hall of Fame.

2. New York University, taking account of a widely expressed desire for a larger recognition of women in the plan of the Hall

1 A bronze bust of Washington by Houdon, was placed in the Museum, the gift of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles in 1905.

of Fame, sets apart a site for a Hall of Fame for Women immediately adjoining the quadrant reserved for American citizens of foreign birth at the northeast end of the present structure. This site will accommodate a building about 30 x 60 feet, which should consist of a Museum on the ground floor with a main story above of twenty-eight columns supporting a pedimented roof. Places will be provided for sixty tablets as follows: Fifty for American women of native birth, ten for American women of foreign birth. The Board of One Hundred Electors will be requested to elect in the year 1905 ten famous American women of native birth and two famous American women of foreign birth, also in each suceeding quinquennial year to add two names of the American women of native birth and in each decennial year, beginning with 1910, to add the name of one American woman of foreign birth until all the tablets shall have been filled. The rules already prescribed in the Deed of Gift for the Hall of Fame, so far as applicable, will be observed in the choosing of names for the Hall of Fame for Women. Until the Hall of Fame for Women shall have been builded, the tablets which may be inscribed with the names chosen by the Board of One Hundred Electors will be placed upon the walls of the Museum of the Hall of Fame.

Location of Hall of Fame.

In accordance with the plans indicated in the foregoing Constitution, a structure was built in the form of a semi-circle, 170 feet in length, connecting the University Hall of Philosophy with the Hall of Languages. On the ground floor is the Museum of the Hall of Fame, 200 feet long and 40 wide, comprising a corridor and six halls. Joined to the Hall of Fame on the north is the concrete foundation upon which is to be built a loggia about 100 feet long, and beyond this the concrete foundation of a Hall of Fame for Women about 30 x 60 feet in size.

The structure stands on the rising ground on the east side of Sedgwick avenue in the borough of the Bronx, a mile north of Washington bridge (One Hundred and Eighty-first street). The convex side of the hall is toward the west and commands a superb

view of the Harlem river, Manhattan Island, the Hudson river and the Palisades beyond. It may be reached from Manhattan borough by subway to One Hundred and Eighty-first street; thence by trolley car across Washington bridge and up Aqueduct avenue; or, by Amsterdam avenue surface cars to Washington bridge, and thence as above described.

Dedication of Hall of Fame and Twenty-nine Tablets in 1901.

In October, 1900, the University Senate made their first canvass of ballots of electors and out of 252 names submitted to them the following twenty-nine were chosen as worthy of a place in the Hall. The figures in parentheses after each name represent the number of electors (out of a total of 95) voting for the name:

Authors: Emerson (87), Longfellow (85), Irving (83), Hawthorne (73).

Teachers: Edwards (82), Mann (67), Beecher (64), Channing (58).

Scientists: Fulton (86), Morse (82), Whitney (69), Audubon (67), Asa Gray (51).

Soldiers: Grant (93), Farragut (79), Lee (68).

Jurists: Marshall (91), Kent (65), Story (64).

Statesmen: Washington (97), Lincoln (96), Webster (96), Franklin (94), Jefferson (91), Clay (74), John Adams (62). Septimi: Peabody (74), Peter Cooper (69), Stuart (52). Tablets to the foregoing were unveiled at the dedication of the Hall of Fame on May 30, 1901.

Eleven Names Chosen in 1905.

Under date of October 15, 1905, the University Senate addressed to each of the 100 electors the following report:

October 15, 1905.

The Senate of New York University respectfully presents to you this report of the official canvass of ballots received from the electors of the Hall of Fame in 1905.

The total number of electors reporting is 95, a majority being 48. Of the 95 electors, 9 do not act upon the names of women, leaving 86 acting thereon, a majority being 44.

From 6 electors, each of whom had consented to act this year, no ballot has been received. Of these electors, 3 are chief justices in the south or west; 2 are prominent in politics, each in a western State; the 6th is the president of a State University in the west. One ballot, received without name or other mark to indicate its sender, was probably sent by one of these six, but could not be counted. The number of electors who accepted the office was 101, a majority being 51.

Before canvassing the ballots, the Senate of New York University, on October 7, 1905 (when no one of its members except the chairman had any knowledge of the contents of any ballot), adopted unanimously the following resolution:

"To secure an unquestionable majority to every name that shall be inscribed in the Hall of Fame, the Senate, following the precedent of five years since, requires, in order to admit any name, the ballots of 51 out of 95 electors; and of 47 out of 86 electors, who have considered the names of women."

The Senate, having under the Deed of Gift, a right of veto on the names "approved by a majority of the answers received," exercised the right in this limited form, by excluding every name lacking a majority of all the Electors.

The Senate appointed its president, vice-president, and secretary, whose names are subscribed below, to canvass the ballots.

The result of this canvass shows the following persons to be duly elected each to a vacant place in the Hall of Fame. The number of ballots approving each name is also indicated, including the ballot of Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, received since the canvass of October 9th-10th.

This report was signed by Henry M. MacCracken, President of Senate, John J. Stevenson, Vice-President of Senate, and Francis H. Stoddard, Secretary of Senate.

The above eleven names complete a roll of forty names now inscribed in the Hall of Fame.

DEDICATORY EXERCISES, MAY 30, 1907.

The following invitation was given in May, 1907, to each of more than forty National or New York associations of patriotic, educational, scientific or philanthropic character; also to several thousands of citizens who were believed to be interested in the programme of the day:

The Senate of New York University requests the honor of your presence at the second unveiling of tablets in the Hall of Fame, University Heights, New York city, on the afternoon of Decoration Day, Thursday, the thirtieth of May, nineteen hundred and seven, at half-past three o'clock.

The invitation was accepted by thirty-nine associations whose names are given below and who appeared by their representatives, also by a very large number of citizens. The newspapers of the day estimated the company at 4,000 to 8,000 persons. The lower estimate was probably nearer the fact. The weather was favorable in the highest degree.

Promptly at the hour named in this invitation the united delegations moved in procession from the University Library. Half