Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...communication in regard to Memorial Hall in this morning's issue is interesting. The writer has undertaken to prove by a reductio ad absurdum that the new transient system was not responsible for the high price of board in November and December, which statement was made at the time by several members of the Association. It sounds reasonable to advocate the maintenance of both systems in use at present. We should not be surprised if the writer had called attention to a good share of the trouble in advocating a more business-like effort to please...
There has been considerable speculation during the past two months as to who would prove acceptable to both the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and be elected to the office of President of the University. The Corporation is practically unlimited in its selection and it may decide upon someone entirely unsuspected by the public or by other members of the University. Nevertheless it seems to be the prevailing opinion of graduates and the public press that the choice will fall upon some one of the men mentioned below...
...convenience of its readers the CRIMSON has also published the names of the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, whose duty it is to elect the new President. The election originates with the Corporation which communicates its decision to the Overseers for their approval or rejection. In case the nomination is rejected the Corporation is obliged to make another choice. The same man may be re-nominated, which happened in the case of President Eliot's election, or the Corporation may propose a new name. In either case the process is the same and the Overseers have...
...President and Fellows of Harvard College, commonly known as the Corporation, consist of Charles William Eliot '53, president; Henry Pickering Walcott '58, Henry Lee Higginson '55, Francis Cabot Lowell '76, Arthur Tracy Cabot '72, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellows; and Charles Francis Adams, 2nd., '88, treasurer. The Board of Overseers consists of the President and Treasurer of the University, ex officiis, and the following persons by election: Francis Lee Higginson '63, James Jackson Storrow '85, George Angier Gordon '81, Francis Randall Appleton '75, William Watson Goodwin '51, Moorfield Storey '66, Henry Shippen Huidekoper '62, John Noble '50, Winslow Warren...
...James Jackson Storrow '85 has for the last three years been chairman of the Boston School Board. For three years previously he was a member of the Board. Mr. Storrow is also a member of the banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. Beefore engaging in the banking business in 1900 he was for ten years a practicing lawyer in Boston. He is at present an Overseer of the University. In addition to the A.B. degree, Mr. Storrow received the degree of LL.B. from the Law School in 1888. While an undergraduate he was a member of the University crew...