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...adjourned meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday in the absence of the President of the board, the Hon. Leverett Salton-stall occupied the chair. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke was added to the committee to visit the observatory. The board concurred with the president and fellows in appointing William Henry Baldwin, Jr., as Proctor. Communications were received from the president and fellows conveying their votes to establish a Peabody Professorship of American Archaeology and Lithology in the university, and selecting Frederic Ward Putnam, A. M., as professor in said department...
...Hon. Carlton Hunt of Louisiana has been visiting Harvard...
...marched to the hall. Mr. Choate was the President of the dinner and sat in the middle of the raised platform. At his right sat President Eliot and James Russell Lowell, and at his left, Gov. Robinson and Vice-President Hendrick. The Phi Beta Kappa orator of the morrow, Hon. William H. Rawle, occupied a prominent seat, and notables were as numerous as is usual on such occasions. Well it was that the intellectual repast was of such a high order, for the viands, tho' choice, could be little enjoyed on account of the crowded condition of the hall...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday forenoon at 70 Water street, Hon. William Russell presiding. It was voted to recommend to the corporation that no honorary degree shall be conferred as a compliment to mere official positions. It was also voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following statute: Persons who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to any of the courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several...
...adjourned meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College was held at 70 Water street, yesterday forenoon. The president, Hon. E. R. Hoar, occupied the chair. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following appointment: Francis Greenwood Peabody, A. M., D. B., acting dean of the Divinity School for 1885-86; Harold Broadfield Warren, instructor in drawing for 1885 6; Harold Whiting, Ph. D., instructor in physics; Lewis Edward Gates, A. B., instructor in forensics for 1885-86; Charles Joye White, A. M., professor of mathematics. The special committee on instruction in written English...