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.