BUST OF WEBSTER IN HALL OF FAME

Three busts have recently been placed in the Hall of Fame at New York University, those of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Daniel Webster. The busts are all the work of the same sculptor, Robert Ingersoll Aitken. The sculptor is a native of San Francisco, where he obtained his art training and was for a time on the faculty at the University of California in the Mark Hopkins Institute. He was an art student in Paris for three years and has received numerous prizes and honors for his work. At present he is an instructor in the National Academy Schools, Sculpture class. The photograph of the Webster bust which we reproduce here through the courtesy of the New York University Alumnus portrays the Webster of mature years and assured authority. To quote from the New York University A lumttus:

"Daniel Webster, as interpreted in sculpture by Aitken, loses many of the grim, mask-like characteristics, so often attributed to him. His was the life of a brilliant orator with fifty great speeches and twenty-five years of senatorship on his record.

"He was born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 17, 1782. From a sickly, retiring boy he grew to be the robust Dartmouth graduate who later became a law student in Boston. In 1805 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office. He was early noted for his fluency in public speaking and in 1813 was elected to Congress as a Federalist. He moved to Boston after the Hartford Convention, in which, as always, he defended the Union. He was a remarkable lawyer and went to Congress again in 1823.

"Webster became Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison, Tyler, and Fillmore, resigned in 1842 and was re-elected U. S. Senator in 1845. He was twice married. His death occurred at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852 and took from the country a most prominent champion of the union and a distinguished exponent of the Constitution."

The Aitken Bust of Webster