North side, left to right: Homer - Herodotus - Sophocles - Plato - Aristotle - Demosthenes - Cicero - Vergil
West side, left to right: Horace - Tacitus - St. Augustine - St. Thomas Aquinas - Dante
East side, left to right: Cervantes - Shakespeare - Milton - Voltaire - Goethe
The panels under the large front windows are inscribed with the names of 24 American statesmen and authors: George Washington - Benjamin Franklin - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - James Madison - John Marshall - John Quincy Adams - Henry Clay - Daniel Webster - Abraham Lincoln Jonathan Edwards - Washington Irving - James Fenimore Cooper - William Cullen Bryant - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Edgar Allen Poe - Henry David Thoreau - Herman Melville - Walt Whitman - Mark Twain
The names were selected by President Nicholas Murray Butler. Source: Robson, John William. A Guide to Columbia University with Some Account of Its History and Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937. p. 101, 103.
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