The presidents of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other famous universities and colleges.
Among labor leaders such persons as:
Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
James W. Sullivan, Matthew Woll, and Frank Morrison; all high in the American Federation of Labor.
Such well-known men as:
V. Everit Macy, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, John H. Finley, August Belmont, E. T. Stotesbury and Charles G. Dawes, afterwards a brilliant figure as a General in France.
Such nationally and internationally known physicians as:
General Gorgas, Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins, the Mayos, Dr., afterwards Brigadier-General Finney, Dr. George E. Brewer, Dr. George W. Crile, Dr. Simon Flexner, and Dr. Theodore Janeway.
Dr. George E. Hale, Chairman of the National Research Council, which was and is the Council's Department of Science and Research.
Thomas A. Edison, President of the Naval Consulting Board, which was and is the Council's Board of Inventions.