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names of those already elected I have arranged for 

 each year in the order of the number of votes re- 

 ceived : 



1900 Washington, Lincoln, Webster, Franklin, Grant, 

 Jefferson, Marshall, Emerson, Fulton, Longfellow, Irving, 

 Jonathan Edwards, Morse, Farragut, Clay, Peabody, Haw- 

 thorne, Peter Cooper, Eli Whitney, Robert E. Lee, Horace 

 Mann, Audubon, James Kent, Beecher, John Adams, Joseph 

 Story, Channing. 



1905 John Quincy Adams, Lowell, Whittier, General 

 Sherman, Madison, Bancroft, Maria Mitchell. 



1910 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hamilton, Poe, Motley, 

 Bryant, Phillips Brooks, Holmes, Frances Willard, Andrew 

 Jackson. 



1915 Mark Hopkins, Parkman, Agassiz, Elias Howe, 

 Joseph Henry, Charlotte Cushman, Daniel Boone. 



1920 Clemens (Mark Twain), W. T. G. Morton, Saint 

 Gaudens, Eads, Roger Williams, Alice Freeman Palmer, 

 Patrick Henry. 



As to the last election, I may venture to say that odd 

 I was a little surprised to find that William Penn, omissions 

 Thomas Paine, and Susan B. Anthony were left 

 out, that the votes for Thoreau, George William 

 Curtis, and Spencer F. Baird were recorded as 

 "scattering," and that John Paul Jones received a 

 larger endorsement than John Brown, for while 

 Jones won a heroic fight at sea, Brown turned the 

 tide of American history! 



In or about 1914 I was asked to render a service civic 

 somewhat similar to the above, by becoming a mem- * 

 ber of the National Council of the Civic Forum 

 of New York, in connection with its "Medal of 

 Honor for Distinguished Service." The Forum it- 

 self, to quote from the formal statement, 



is an educational institution founded in 1907. Its object is to 

 strengthen, without regard to party or creed, those forces which 



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