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...special meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, cum laude, out of course, on Pierre Cheeseman Du Bois of the class of 1865; in the appointment of George Lincoln Walton, M. D., as special clinical instructor in the disease of the nervous system; James Jackson Putnam, M. D., instructor in the diseases of the nervous system; Frederick Eugene Rice, M. D., M. R. C. V. S., instructor in anatomy and materia...
...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...
...adjourned meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College was held Thursday forenoon at the office of the treasurer. The matter for special consideration was the subject of requirements for admission to the college. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in the appointment of Harold North Fowler, A. B., as instructor in Greek for the current year. The proposed plan of examinations for admission to the college was taken up, and, after a lengthy discussion, it was voted that a committee of five be appointed by the chair to consider and report on the requisitions...
...Harvard we hear of no less than three governing bodies,- the overseers, the corporation, and the faculty. To the students the vast quantity of decisions and reconsiderations, the vote of one body, and a refusal to concur by another are extremely perplexing. It is gratifying to learn that the students are not alone in their perplexity, for the board of overseers has appointed a committee to find out what its legitimate powers are. If this inquiry should lead to the adoption of a written constitution, which would serve as a substitute for the unwritten usages and theories, the system...