UNVEILING LINCOLN STATUE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
UNVEILING LINCOLN STATUE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WITH impressive ceremonies, the bronze statute of Lincoln, presented to The University of Wisconsin by Thomas E. Brittingham of Madison, was...
...To them it was a matter of deep significance that their Alma Mater had been selected as the recipient of the only replica of the famous Weinman statue...
...To Richard Lloyd Jones and Thomas E. Brittingham they paid tribute...
...William Ellery Leonard read a noble ode which he had written for the occasion, and Richard Lloyd Jones delivered an address on "Lincoln and Present Day Problems,"—a vigorous and impressive interpretation of the bearing of Lincoln's service to humanity on the great question of social justice with which the present generation is concerned...
...The statue is a replica of the one erected by the United States and the State of Kentucky at Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln's birthplace, and unveiled with impressive exercises on Memorial Day...
...to the former for his success in securing the replica for Wisconsin, to the latter for his generosity in presenting it to the University...
...Brittingham's letter presenting the statue to the University of Wisconsin was read by President Charles R. Van Hise and the statue was accepted on behalf of the University by former Governor W. D. Hoard, President of the Board of Regents...
...UNVEILING LINCOLN STATUE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WITH impressive ceremonies, the bronze statute of Lincoln, presented to The University of Wisconsin by Thomas E. Brittingham of Madison, was unveiled on the "Upper Campus" on June 22, 1909...
...Hundreds of alumni attended the unveiling...
Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 26
