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Order of Exercises

The procession will leave the Library at half-past three o'clock and proceed to the site of the Hall of Fame for Women. The tablets will be unveiled in the order given, with a brief dedication by the chairman of each delegation of the participating societies. The procession will then leave the Colonnade at the Authors' Corner and move to the pavilion on the West Lawn where the orations of the day will be delivered.

Band Concert, Pavilion, West Lawn, 3 p. m.

^Procession

The Chancellor of the University and Speaker

Officers of the Senate and Speakers Senior Professor of the Senate and Chaplain of the Day

Members of the University Senate and Electors of the Hall of

Fame

Members of the University Council and Officers of the Federal, State and City Governments

Delegates of the Societies participating in the Unveiling of

Tablets

Delegates of Military Organizations

Members of the Faculties of New York University

Delegates of Students of New York University

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Unveiling of Tablets

Hall of Fame for Women HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811-1896

New York Colony, National Society of New England Women

Mrs. Frances Sedgwick Smith, National Vice-president (Hon orary Chairman), Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Chairman, Mrs. George Perkins Lawton, Miss Sarah Palmer, Mrs. Henry M. McDewell, Mrs. Arthur Bridges, Mrs. J. P. Marshall, Mrs. George F. Andrews, Mrs. L. Barry, Mrs. Albert Bickmorc, Miss Helen B. Blake, Mrs. Warren Higley, Miss M. Helen Hicks, Mrs. Horace Ely.

FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD 1839-1898

National Women's Christian Temperance Union

Miss Anna Gordon, President (Honorary Chairman), Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Vice-president-at-large, Chairman, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, Mrs. W. W. Wicks, Mrs. Sadie A. Hall, Mrs. John Dayton, Miss May L. Powless, Miss Margaret Sloat, Mrs. L. M. DeSilva, Mrs. Mary B. Wilson, Mrs. Martha W. Allen, Mrs. H. S. Pritchard, Mrs. Anna P. George.

CHARLOTTE SAUNDERS CUSHMAN 1816-1876

Stage Women of America Miss Julia Arthur

ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 1855-1902

Wellesley College Alumnae Association

Dr. Caroline Hazard, Past President of Wellesley College (Honorary Chairman), Mrs. Henry H. Bonnell, President, Professor Katharine Lee Bates, Chairman, Mrs. George Bacon Wbod, Mrs. E. Griffith Parsley, Mrs. Frank Mason North, Mrs. Sumner B. Peariman, Miss Elsie Goddard, Mrs. George R. Camp.

Statesmen s Corner ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1757-1804

The Women's National Republican Club

Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, President, Chairman, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Mrs. Horatio Shonnard, Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs. William H. Ives, Mrs. Travis H. Whitney.

ANDREW JACKSON 1767-1845

The New York Southern Society

General Samuel MacRoberts, Chairman, Hon. Barron G. Collier, Hon. Adolphus Ragan.

PATRICK HENRY 1736-1799

Sons of the Revolution, State of New York

Robert Olyphant, President, Chairman, James Mortimer Mont gomery, General President, Sons of the Revolution, Hon. Henry Galbraith Ward.

Jurists RUFUS CHOATE 1799-1859

American Bar Association Charles A. Boston, Esq.

Septimi DANIEL BOONE 1735-1820

Boy Scouts of America

Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner ( Honorary Chairman), James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, Chairman, James A. Beard, Scout Executive, and William B. Kelly, Scout Master, of Manhattan, with Scouts Will Miller, Royal Mont gomery, Jack Holl, Lawrence Collier, Edward Holt, Charles Towfe ; William A. Stumpp, Scout Executive, and Edmund D. Whelan, Scout Master, of the Bronx, with Scouts John Tigue, Harry Tike, Jack Stack, George Roland, Harold Powers, Nor man Cook; C. A. Worden, Scout Executive, and Martin B. Freeman, Scout Master, of Queens, with Eagle Scouts Herbert Jacobi, Edwin Jacobi, Lewis Elmore, and Star Scouts Wilton Rea, Elmer Wheeler, Thomas Sullivan ; A. F. Murphy, Scout Executive, and Harry C. Otten, Scout Master, of Kings, with Scouts Charles Tilgner, Albert Reinhart, Charles Graham, Louis Busig, George Davy, Robert Laviner.

AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 1848-1907

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Dr. William Milligan Sloane, President, Chairman, Dr. Brander Matthews, Chancellor, Mr. Hamlin Garland, Acting Secretary, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mr. Augustus Thomas, Mr. Cass Gilbert.

National Institute of Arts and Letters

Hon. Robert Grant, President (Honorary Chairman), Pro fessor Jefferson B. Fletcher, Secretary, Chairman, Mr. Robert I. Aitkin, Dr. Walter Damrosch, Mr. Charles Dana Gibson, Professor Ashley H. Thorndike, Professor John C. Van Dyke, Hon. William Allen White, Mr. Arnold W. Brunner.

JAMES BUCHANAN EADS 1820-1887

American Society of Civil Engineers

George S. Webster, Chairman, Onward Bates, Major General Lansing H. Beach, John F. Coleman, Ralph Modjeski, F. S. Curtis, George H. Pegram, Francis Lee Stuart, E. E. Wall.

Scientists WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN MORTON 1819-1868

American Medical Association Dr. William H. Welch

Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. F. A. Washburn, Superintendent

LOUIS AGASSIZ 1807-1873

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Charles D. Davenport, Chairman, Dr. Henry F. Osborn, Pro fessor Edmund B. Wilson.

JOSEPH HENRY 1799-1878

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

Professor Walter I. Slichter, Chairman, Clayton H. Sharp, Edward B. Craft.

ELIAS HOWE 1819-1867

National Institute of Inventors

Thomas Howard, Chairman, Captain John M. Deemer, William A. Donaldson, Chester Clark, Frederick W. Davey, Major Howard Elliott, G. J. Houtain, Charles G. Brooks, Nathan Langer, R. Nerenstone, Jacob Greenspun, Ambrose Ryder, Miss E. P. MacLaughlin, William W. Lapoint, John S. Seymour, ex-Commissioner of Patents.

Teachers' Section ROGER WILLIAMS 1607-1684

The Rhode Island Historical Society

Howard M. Chapin, lineal descendant of Roger Williams, and Mrs. Chapin.

PHILLIPS BROOKS 1835-1893

The Right Reverend William Thomas Manning, Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

MARK HOPKINS 1802-1887

Williams College Alumni

Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, President of Williams College, Chairman, Colonel Archibald Hopkins, Hon. Alfred C. Chapin, Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University of Chi cago, Dean Edward A. Birge, University of Wisconsin, Hon. Arthur H. Masten, Benjamin Prince, Hon. Frederick Geller, Dr. Henry Lefavour, President of Simmons College, Herbert J. Brown, Hon. Bentley W. Warren, Hon. J. Addison Young, William T. Sidley, Hon. Charles C. Nott, Jr., John S. Shep- pard, Willard Evans Hoyt, Hon. Clark Williams, Franklin H. Mills, Lt. Col. George F. Perkins, Edmonds Perry, Frederic T. Wood, Max B. Berking, Lt. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey, Hon. Solomon B. Griffin, Dr. Frederick C. Ferry, President of Hamilton College.

^Authors'' Corner JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 1789-1851

The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

George G. Heye, Director (Honorary Chairman), Frederic K. Seward, Chairman, George H. Pepper, Dr. William R. Blackie.

JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY 1814-1877

The Massachusetts Historical Society Dr.' William Roscoe Thayer, Chairman, Hon. Elihu Root.

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 1835-1910

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Dr. William Milligan Sloane, President, Chairman, Dr. Brander Matthews, Chancellor, Mr. Hamlin Garland, Acting Secretary, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mr. Augustus Thomas, Mr. Cass Gilbert.

National Institute of Arts and Letters

Hon. Robert Grant, President (Honorary Chairman), Pro fessor Jefferson B. Fletcher, Secretary, Chairman, Mr. Robert I. Aitkin, Dr. Walter Damrosch, Mr. Charles Dana Gibson, Professor Ashley H. Thorndike, Professor John C. Van Dyke, Hon. William Allen White, Mr. Arnold W. Brunner.

EDGAR ALLAN POE 1809-1849

Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences

William White Niles, Chairman, DeaA Archibald L. Bouton, Dr. Hugo C. M. Wendel, William Stebbins Smith, Charles W. Stoughton, Reginald P. Bolton.

The Poe Cottage Committee

Mrs. Charles F. Dickey, Miss Elizabeth Cowan, Miss Mary Wray, Mrs. William White Niles.

FRANCIS PARKMAN 1 823-1 893

The Massachusetts Historical Society Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, Chairman, Hon. Elihu Root.

GEORGE BANCROFT 1800-1891

The Massachusetts Historical Society

Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, Chairman, Hon. Elihu Root.

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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878

The Century Association Hon. Elihu Root, President

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1809-1894

The Poetry Society of America

Mrs. Edwin Markham, Chairman, William Griffith, Louise Hackney, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Clement Wood, Edward J. Wheeler, Estelle Duclo, May Riley Smith, Amy Lowell, C. P. Meadowcroft, Eleanor Cox, Conant Isabelle Fiske, G. J. Smith, Mrs. G. J. Smith, Leonora Spe^er, Charles Hanson Towne, Blanche S. Wagstaff, Willard* Wattles, John Hall WTheelock, Professor George M. Whicher, Margaret Widemer, * Marguerite Wilkinson, Florence Wilkinson Evans, Don Mar quis, Anna Branch, Daniel Henderson, John M. Farrar, Pro fessor John Erskine, Mrs. Gertrude McGiffertspf, >

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Minister First Presbyterian Church

ORATION— "Fame" Henry van Dyke, D.C.L. (Oxon.)

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ORATION— "Inspiration" - William Milligan Sloane, Ph.D., L.H.D., LL.D.

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

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