In answer to the question:

Who are the four busts on display in the Pilling Room of the Library?

We believe that, as of Feb. 28, 2010, they were:

  • Unidentified Man*, possibly Thomas Jefferson
  • Unidentified Man*, possibly Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Unidentified Man*, possibly Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Abraham Lincoln

*According to 1983 survey of campus art by Alice Glock.

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