No small portion of New York University's fame derives from the quasi-official Hall of Fame which was founded within its precincts and entrusted to its care in 1900 by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard at the suggestion of the late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand...
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