The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . addresses were made, and then the draperies of red, whiteand blue bunting were removed, revealing twenty-ninenames, all that have so far been selected as worthy of patri-otic commemoration there, but enough to form a worthyrecognition of the multiformity of human greatness. Sing-ing the national hymn brought to a close the ceremony,which had been begun with prayer by the Rev. Dr. N. Fortunately no rain fell, and the whole
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . addresses were made, and then the draperies of red, whiteand blue bunting were removed, revealing twenty-ninenames, all that have so far been selected as worthy of patri-otic commemoration there, but enough to form a worthyrecognition of the multiformity of human greatness. Sing-ing the national hymn brought to a close the ceremony,which had been begun with prayer by the Rev. Dr. N. Fortunately no rain fell, and the whole affair wasconducted in the open air with comfort. The sun shoneeven brightly part of the time, showing to the best advantagethe varied landscape overlooked by University Heights,which includes parts of the Hudson and the Harlem Rivers,Fort George, the big knolls of Spuyten Duyvil and the far-away tops of the Orange Mountains. The Hall of Fameis an imposing colonnade of stone, open at the sides, butroofed, five hundred feet long, semicircular in shape, andin the architectural style of the early Greeks. The spacesbetween most of the pillars which support the
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