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...following officers have been elected: President, William C. Endicott, Harvard '47; vice-presidents, Charles Francis Adams Harvard '56, John Lowell Harvard '77, A. Field Dartmouth, Henry L. Higginson Harvard, J. M. Barker Williams, Richard Olney, Brown, Alfred Hemenway Yale, J. E. Sanford Amherst; treasurer, Robert G. Shaw Harvard '69; secretary, William V. Kellen, Brown. Executive committee for four years - John T. Wheelwright Harvard '76, D. McLellan Brown, E. Parker Amherst, Charles F. Sprague Harvard '79, Reginald Foster Yale. For three years - Winslow Warren Harvard '58, Marcus Morton Yale, Richard D. Sears Harvard '83, T. W. Proctor Dartmouth, Arthur Lord Harvard...
...Professor White's explanation last night of the plans for the equipment of the Soldiers' Field a new phase of the Athletic Committee's service to the University appears. The gentlemen who comprise this body have been at work since Major Higginson gave the land and have devised a series of plans which will give us the greatest athletic field in the world...
...building on the estate presented by Major Higginson the opportunity will be offered for working out the experiment tried by the 'varsity training table association which is sure to be successful in the end. In the same building an organization similar to the old 'varsity club will probably be started...
Many inquiries are circulating about college as to the present condition and future use of the Soldiers' Field, presented to the University by Mr. Higginson. Considerable work has been done in levelling the field, weeding it, and sowing it with grass. A committee has been appointed, of which Mr. Alexander Agassiz is chairman, to raise $50,000 for the buildings which it is proposed to erect. These include a new boat house for the crew, to take the place of the old one farther down the river, and two grand stands, one on the foot ball...
...nominations have been reported by the committee of the Alumni as Overseers of the University. Outgoing Overseers eligible for re-election, T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1850, and George O. Shattuck, 1851; other nominations, Richard M. Hodges, 1847, Charles R. Codman, 1849, Winslow Warren, 1858, Charles F. Folsom, 1862, Francis L. Higginson, 1863, Moorfield Storey, 1866, Thomas L. Livermore, Charles F. Dole, 1868, Moses Williams,1868, William C. Loring, 1872, Morris Gray, 1877, all of Boston, and Arthur T. Lyman, 1853, of Waltham, Charles P. Greenough, 1864, of Brookline, Charles W. Clifford, 1865, of New Bedford, Edward C. Perkins, 1866, of Milton...