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Excerpt from The Hall of Fame: Proceedings of the Second Unveiling of Memorial Tablets in the Hall of Frame at University Heights, New York City, Upon Memorial Day, May 30, 1907
Of Fame, 50 part a site for a Hall of Fame for imme diately adjoining the quadrant l'( served for American citizens of foreign birth at the northeast end of the present structure. This site will accommodate a building about 30x60 fret, which should consist of a Museum on the ground floor with a main story above of twentv-eight columns supporting a pedimented roof. Places will be provided for sixty tablets as follows: Fiftv 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 vear 1905 ten famous American women of native birth and two famous American women of foreign birth, also in each succeeding 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 '01ne11. Until the Hall of Fame for Unmn shall have been builded, the tablets which may be in scribed with the names chosen bv the Board of'one Hundred Electors will be placed upon the walls of the Museum of the Hall of Fame.
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Excerpt from The Hall of Fame: Proceedings of the Second Unveiling of Memorial Tablets in the Hall of Frame at University Heights, New York City, Upon Memorial Day, May 30, 1907
On March 5, 1900, the Council of New York University, in the city of New York, accepted, from a donor whose name is withheld, a gift of $100,000, afterward increased to $250,000, for the erection on University Heights in the borough of the Bronx, of a building to be called "The Hall of Fame for Great Americans." The object of this institution is set forth in the following constitution of the Hall of Fame approved by the university in March, 1900:
Constitution of the Hall of Fame.
A gift of one hundred thousand dollars is accepted by New York University under the following conditions: The money is to be used for building a colonnade five hundred feet in length, at University Heights, looking toward the Palisades and the Harlem and Hudson river valleys. The exclusive use of the colonmade is to serve as "The Hall of Fame for Great Americans." One hundred and fifty panels, each about two by eight feet, will be provided for inscriptions. Fifty of these will be inscribed in 1900, provided fifty names shall be approved by the two bodies of judges named below. At the close of every five years thereafter five additional panels will be inscribed, so that the entire number shall be completed A. D. 2000. The statue, bust, or portrait of any person, whose name is inscribed, may be given a place either in the Hall of Fame or in the museum.
The following rules are to be observed for inscriptions:
(1) The University will invite nominations until May 1st, from the public in general, of names to be inscribed, to be addressed by mail to the Chancellor of the University, New York city.
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