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...last Commencement the board of overseers of Harvard University voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring honorary degrees as follows: Degree of doctor of laws, Charles Stebbins Fairchild, Joseph Hodges Choate, Walcott Gibbs. Degree of doctor of divinity, Abiel Abbott Livermore. Degree of master of arts, Edward Burgess, William Endicott, Jr., John White Chadwick...
...Frederick Cheever Shaftuck, M. D., professor of clinical medicine; John Orne Green, M. D., clinical professor of otology; Clarence John Blake, M. B., professor of otology; Frederick Irving Knight, M. D., clinical professor of laryngology; William Henry Baker, M. D., professor of gynaecology. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in reappointing George Dunning Moore, Ph. D., proctor for 1888-9; and in appointing Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph. D., tutor in Greek for three years from Sept...
...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...
...publish elsewhere a short account of President Eliot's report to the Board of Overseers. We concur most heartily in what is said about voluntary chapel and the other questions concerning the college. But in the final paragraph relating to athletic sports, we find sentiments expressed with which we cannot entirely agree. Admitting that "foot-ball, base-ball, and rowing are liable to abuses." yet we cannot see that these abuses are altogether of the kind President Eliot mentions. Extravagant expenditure and betting are, to be sure, abuses which exist and flourish abnormally. Our position in regard to them...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday morning, with the Hon. Charles R. Codman in the chair. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows of the college in the following elections: Silas Marcus McVane, A. B., professor of ancient and modern history; Ernest Young, Ph. D., professor of history; Arthur Serale, A. M., Phillips professor of astronomy, to date from Sept...