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acquired. University Heights is very beautifully situated on a high
ridge overlooking the Harlem River. The college campus is roomy
and attractive. The University grounds extend from Sedgwick
Avenue to Aqueduct Avenue, and are immediately south of Uni-
versity Avenue (also called East 181st Street).

These grounds are now occupied by the University College,
the School of Applied Science, and part of the Graduate School.
The removal was accomplished in 1894. The principal University
buildings at the Heights are the Library; the Hall of Fame; halls
for recitation in letters and science, and for laboratory work in sci-
ence ; the gymnasium; and Gould Hall, for residence, the gift of
Miss Helen Miller Gould, in memory of her parents. There arc,
besides, a Stadium, and a track for athletics. In the immediate
neighborhood, a residential one, are many professors' residences and
fraternity houses.

The Hall of Fame merits especial mention among the Univer-
sity buildings at the Heights. I t has attained much celebrity, and
the structure itself is both unique and beautiful. I t is a colonnade,
extending around the Library, the Hall of Languages, and the site
of the proposed Hall of Philosophy, and overlooking the river. I t
is a memorial to great Americans, whose names have been selected
by a body of judges composed of persons of national eminence. Each
name to be honored has been inscribed upon a bronze tablet, and
placed, with an appropriate inscription, in the open hall immediately
below the colonnade. Twenty-nine names have already been chosen,
and more are to be selected, at stated intervals, in the future. The
names which have thus far been inscribed are George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Fulton, Washing-
ton Irving, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, David
Glasgow Farragut. Henry Clay, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Pea-
body, Robert Edward Lee, Peter Cooper, Horace Mann, Eli Whit-
ney, John James Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, James Kent.
Joseph Story, John Adams, William Ellery Channing, Gilbert Stu-
art, and Asa Gray.

While the removal of some of the Schools to University Heights
was taking place, changes were going on at Washington Square as
well. A t the East of the old building, the neighborhood had long
ceased to be a residential one, and had become thoroughly and typi-