Light-envisaged from the Mount,

"All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God."

With reverence and gratitude, we unveil this tablet to James Russell Lowell.

Address by Chancellor MacCracken.

Upon the conclusion of the ceremony of the Unveiling of the Tablets, the procession moved to the great platform upon the West Lawn, upon which seats had been placed for 200 persons, while seats for 2,000 to 3,000 extended up the slope of the hill.

The invocation was offered by the Right Rev. Edward G. Andrews, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.1

The Chancellor of the University, before introducing the speakers of the day, made the following address:

Before introducing the orators of the day, I give thanks in the name of the New York University Senate, to the distinguished societies and their honored representatives who assist to-day in this dedication.

Also to the members of the Board of One Hundred Electors both present and absent, to whom the wide fame of the Hall of Fame is chiefly due. This Hall of Fame, overlooking the Hudson, has become in seven years more familiar to the people of America than the Walhalla which overlooks the Danube has become in seventy-seven years to the people of Germany. This is not by reason of the superior magnificence of the building or of its contents. It is because the fact of the tribunal of the One Hundred Electors, representing forty-five States and selected for their knowledge, integrity and judicial temperament, has commended itself to thinking minds as a worthy court of appeal well qualified to give decisions respecting the comparative claims of famous citizens who have gone before. It is the acceptance of this tribunal which explains

1 Bishop Andrews, who on this day seemed strong far above the average man of fourscore, died in December, 1907, from an illness contracted on a journey to the Pacific coast.

the existence at this hour of organized movements, whether on the Atlantic shore, in the Mississippi valley, or on the Pacific coast, to present to the One Hundred Electors for their judgment three years hence, certain great names belonging to these regions. Chiefly to the Board of Electors we render thanks to-day for what this foundation has become as an educational power. We look to them for the strengthening of its influence through all this twentieth century.

We University people are in the habit of excusing ourselves from extra work till vacation comes. When the Governor of New York patriotically pledged himself to be present to-day, he had reason to expect that his vacation as a part of the legislative power of the Empire State would have begun before now. Unluckily, several courses of instruction covering public utilities and other matters have not been completed. The final examinations on some of them have been put off by request of the Mayor of New York. Nevertheless, the Governor fulfills his agreement which promised only a few words and not an extended address.

When the subject is "The Statesman and the Warrior," a few words from one who brilliantly illustrates militant statesmanship will be treasured by the country as well as by the people of New York.

Address by Governor Hughes.

The Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Governor of the State of New York, spoke as follows:

On this day, with grateful appreciation, we commemorate the valor and the sacrifices of those who, as representatives of the people, took part in the struggle for the preservation of the Union. With the passing of years, the wounds caused by civil strife have been healed, and old animosities and sectional rivalries have given place to a common realization of our national destiny and to at common congratulation that we have remained a united people. And to-day we render the tribute of honor as well as affection to the memory not merely of those who fell fighting for a victorious cause, but for all who in their unselfish zeal, following what they believed to be the right, revealed the heroic qualities of American manhood.

While the ceremonies of this hour have no direct relation to the general observance of the day, it is fitting that among those who are esteemed worthy of a place in this temple of illustrious Americans, and whose tablets are unveiled at this time, should be the great general of the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman. He hated war, but brought to its prosecution the highest military genius. He apprised its horrors so justly that he had no patience with temporizing policy. But by daring and original plans carried out with mathematical precision and unrelenting determination to succeed, he hurried the advent of peace which he sincerely desired. To him, war was war-unrelieved, cruel war a terrible means to a righteous and necessary end. And he played his part heroically, brilliantly and unflinchingly for the sake of the end he so clearly saw. And by reason of his originality, foresight, exactness, intrepidity and success, he placed himself in the first rank of military men.

The soldier has so largely monopolized the plaudits and affection of mankind not because of, but in spite of, the barbarities of war. Largely of course it has been due to the momentous political consequences of the success of arms, either in the defense of liberty or in the maintenance of National life with which the people have felt their interests identified, or in the increase of national glory which they proudly shared. But more largely the soldier has been honored, paradoxical as it may seem, because of love of humanity and because through his work the noblest qualities of man have been placed in conspicuous relief. Endurance, poise, fortitude, unselfishness, disregard of personal danger, sagacity, discernment, swift and unerring analysis, exact calculation, the capacity for leadership, and the mastery of men, singlemindedness and love of truth and honor shining forth in a sincere and noble character at a time of greatest stress and peril are the qualities which dignify humanity, and, represented in the soldier under circumstances fixing the attention of the nation and the world, call forth a universal tribute. And by the manner in which these severe tests have been made, we test the quality of a nation's citizenship. It is not the havoc wrought, the lives sacrificed, the disaster and the ruin caused by the victory, that win the admiration of mankind, but the inflexible purpose, the

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