an hour before this, the coming of the Governor of New York had been welcomed by a salute of seventeen guns by a detachment of the First Battery, N. G. N. Y., Captain John F. O'Ryan, commanding.

The intervening time had been given to a reception by the Governor in the rotunda of the Library. The following was

The Order of Procession.

Delegates of New York City High Schools.
Delegates of Students of New York University.
Trumpeters and Seventh Regiment Band.

The Chairman of the Senate and the Governor of New York.
The Staff of the Governor of New York.

The Secretary of the Senate and the Governor of Massachusetts. The Senior Professor of the Senate and the Chaplain of the Day. The Members of the Senate and Electors of the Hall of Fame. Members of the Council and Officers of the Federal, State and City Governments, and of Foreign Governments.

Members of the Women's Advisory Committee and Officers of the United States Army and Navy, and of the National Guard.

Delegates of the Societies participating in the Unveiling of
Tablets.

Delegates of Societies appointed to Decorate the Tablets Un-
veiled by the Respective Societies in 1901.
Members of Patriotic and Educational Societies and
Organizations.

Members of the University Faculties and of the Faculties of
Sister Universities, Colleges and Schools.

The following societies, which unveiled the twenty-nine tablets in 1901, were represented by delegates, who brought wreathes, which they laid upon the parapets above the respective tablets:

George Washington: Society of the Cincinnati.

John Adams: Sons of the Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson: Sons of the American Revolution.

Daniel Webster: Daughters of the American Revolution.
Henry Clay: Daughters of the Revolution.

Abraham Lincoln: Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
James Kent: Bar Association of New York.

Ulysses S. Grant: Grand Army of the Republic.

Robert E. Lee: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Samuel F. B. Morse: American Institute of Electrical Engi

neers.

Eli Whitney: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Jonathan Edwards: Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor.

Henry Ward Beecher: Young Men's Christian Association. William E. Channing: New England Society.

Horace Mann: National Educational Association. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Morris High School. Washington Irving: Washington Irving High School. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Brooklyn Girls' High School. Delegates by invitation represented The Principals' Association, The High School Art Teachers' Association, The High School Drawing Teachers' Association, The Kraus Kindergarten Association, The High School Teachers' Association, The New York City Teachers' Association, The Schoolmasters' Association, The New York Schoolmasters' Club in honor of the anveiling of the bronze bust of Horace Mann which is set upon the parapet above the bronze tablet erected in 1901.

The Hall of Fame for Women.

The procession moved northward to the site of the Hall of Fame for Women, which at present is marked only by walls of concrete, in which are fixed the Tablets of Bronze. A temporary platform near by was reserved for the delegates of the societies who were appointed to unveil the memorials. Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, as Chairman of the University Senate, introduced these delegates. He said:

In October, 1905, the One Hundred Electors of the Hall of Fame inaugurated a Roll of Famous American Women by the selection by a majority of the voices of the electors participating of three names. First in point of age among these is Emma Willard, who was born one hundred and twenty years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing her name is assigned to the Emma Willard Association, which is represented by Mrs. Charles E. Patterson of Troy, N. Y., and Mrs. Dr. William S. Searle, vice-president of the association. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker Mrs. Patterson.

Emma Willard.

Mrs. Charles E. Patterson said:

In every great upheaval of moral forces there has been one to whom the revelation of some principle of truth first came, and with the heavenly vision came the courage to proclaim it, and to do, to dare, to suffer for the cause he or she loved and believed in.

The tablet to be now unveiled commemorates Emma Hart Willard, a pioneer in as great a revolution as ever changed the history of the world. This great movement was not baptized in blood, there was no clash of arms, no martial music, but when a woman dared proclaim that woman was capable of, and entitled to the highest intellectual development, when the woman we honor to-day said, "Reason and religion teach that we too are primary existences; that it is for us to move in the orbit of our duty, around the Holy Center of perfection, the Companions, not the Satellites of men," she uttered a truth as certain, if not as startling, as when on July Fourth, 1776, brave men signed the paper that declared these American Colonies free and independent States. In 1818, Mrs. Willard presented to the Legislature of New York her "Plan for improving female education," the Magna Charta of the rights of woman in matters of education. In her school, opened without State aid, at Waterford, New York, in 1819, and two years later removed to Troy, New York, was laid the foundation for those superb institutions of learning for women of which the twentieth century is so proud.

Mrs. Willard was also a pioneer among women in the making of school books, and her books of instruction in Geography and History were surpassed by none of her days. As a teacher, she took first rank, developing in her pupils those lofty ideals and that love of knowledge with which she was herself inspired.

So it is most fitting that in this beautiful hall built to preserve the name and fame of the great, the good, the wise, the brave, an enduring memorial should be placed to Emma Willard.

The Chancellor said:

Mary Lyon.

The second in point of age among the three famous American women is Mary Lyon, who was born one hundred and ten years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing her name is assigned to the New York Alumnæ Association of Mt. Holyoke College, which is represented by Mrs. J. D. Walton of Bellport, L. I., president, and by Mrs. I. W. Sylvester of Passaic, N. J., whom I have now the honor of introducing as their speaker.

Mrs. Sylvester said:

It is not because Mary Lyon founded Mt. Holyoke College that we are here to give her name honor to-day. It is because that with comprehensive grasp she seized upon the fact that the greatest benefit which she could confer upon her race was the raising of the intellectual status of women.

Not only did she make possible what, before her effort, had been practically impossible, the opportunity for women to cultivate in like fashion as their brothers the brains which God had given them, but she also lifted the stigma which had been, before her time, attached to the educated girl.

As we unveil her name in this place of honor so did she with steady and efficient hand lift the veil which darkened the vision of her age and made it possible for men and women to see that upon the education of women depended as perhaps upon no other the progress and happiness of her race.

Her personality was very great.

In that educational movement which dominated the descendants of our New England colonies, Mary Lyon worked fearlessly and effectively against the prejudice of her age, along new lines, her only fear being that she should not know all her duty or knowing it that she should fail to accomplish it.

It was given her to know and accomplish.

The Chancellor said:

Maria Mitchell,

The third in point of age among the three famous American women is Maria Mitchell, who was born eighty-nine years ago. The unveiling of the bronze tablets bearing her name is assigned to the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association, which is represented to-day by Professor Mary W. Whitney of Vassar College, president; Mrs. Benjamin Albertson of Philadelphia, vice-president, and author of the Maria Mitchell House at Nantucket, and Mrs. Charles S. Hinchman of Philadelphia, vice-president. I have the honor of introducing as their speaker Professor Whitney of Vassar. Prof. Mary W. Whitney said:

Maria Mitchell's words here inscribed, "Every formula which expresses a law of Nature, is a hymn of praise to God," and her oft-repeated precept, "Do not neglect the infinities for the infinitesimals," typify the character of the scientist and teacher, to whom this tablet is dedicated. Extraordinary simplicity of thought, as unvarnished as the formula; freedom from self-consciousness, like Nature; freedom from conventions, like all realities; these marked her life.

She believed that Science brought the mind into touch with the Power behind phenomena. She believed it elevated character. She was devoted to the education of young women, because she wished their lives to be governed by the harmonies of truth rather than by the vagaries of tradition, by the "infinities rather than by the infinitesimals."

The law of Nature, embodied in conscience, was as vivid to her mind as the law of the revolving planet. If she saw an action to