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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEDNESDAY. (Commencement.)Board of Overseers. Meeting at Memorial Hall...
...Hale announced during the services in the chapel yesterday morning that he would conduct prayers for the last time on Tuesday morning. He will close on that occasion his long term of service which began eight years ago in October, when, as one of the clerical members of the Board of Overseers, he took charge of the chapel service for the month. Everybody remembers the great reluctance with which the resignation of Dr. Hale was accepted even after he had declared that it would be impossible for him to devote to the University in the future the time necessary...
Professor Agassiz's new book, "A Contribution to American Thalassography," supplies a vacant place in the literature of oceanic basins. The book is the result of several cruises on board the steamer "Blake" of the U. S. Coast Survey. The materials collected furnish valuable information for the study of animal life in deep water, and the conclusions arrived at cause new views to be taken of the former positions of the continents and of the history of submarine deposits. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the geological history of Florida. Louis Agassiz asserted that the formations of Florida...
...board of overseers held a special meeting Wednesday, the Hon. Charles R. Codman in the chair. A committee consisting of Messrs. Green, Hoar, Lee, Lincoln and Peabody was appointed to present appropriate resolutions on the deaths of R. D. Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board. The report of the faculty on athletics was presented by President Eliot, and laid upon the table. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their appointments as follows...
Allen Danforth, A. M., deputy treasurer from the date when his resignation as a member of the board shall take effect: John C. Perkins, A. B., as proctor in Divinity Hall for 1888-89; Thomas M. Rotch, M. D., assistant professor of diseases of children; J. Mixter, M. D., demonstrator in anatomy; Chas. Gross, Ph. D., instructor in history; George H. Parker, S. B., in zoology; Thaddeus W. Harris, A. M., in geology; W. B. S. Clymer, A. B., in English; George Bendelair, A. B., in English history; Freeman Snow, Ph. D., in international law; G. W. Sawin...