Word: hoar
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...special meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held at the office of the treasurer yesterday forenoon, Hon. Charles R. Codman presiding in the absence of Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar. The overseers concurred with the president and fellows in the election of William James, M. D., as professor of philosophy. Messrs. Russell Smith, the president of the university, Lincoln and Parker were appointed the committee on rhetoric and English literature, and the following preamble and resolve were adopted...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing George Anthony Hill, A. M., instructor in engineering, and George William Sawin proctor. The election of William James, M. D., as professor of philosophy was presented and laid over under the rules. The petition of the students regarding attendance at college prayers, indorsed by the faculty, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks and Lowell. The committee on the quinquennial catalogue was requested to consider the subject of the official language of the university...
...telegraphic account of the dinner of the Washington Harvard Club. Senator Hoar, and Representative Long declined to attend, because of the exclusion of Messrs. Greener and Terrell from the club...
...meeting of the Overseers was held yesterday morning, the Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in the election of Whitman Gurney as a Fellow of the corporation, in place of Alexander Agassiz, resigned. The committees to visit the Museum of Co oparative Zoology, the Lawrence Scientific School, the Bussey Institution, the Peabody Museum, and the Medical and Dental Schools presented their reports, which were referred to the Committee on Reports and Resolutions...
...special meeting of the board of overseers was held at Boston on Wednesday, Hon. E. R. Hoar in the chair. The board concurred with the president and fellows in appointing Robert Henri Harrison, D. V. S., instructor in anatomy and assistant surgeon in the veterinary hospital for three years from September 1, 1884; John wesley Houston, A. B., and George Willaim Browne, A. B., Proctors; Nathaniel Thayer Kidder, instructor in botany for the current academic year; Benjamin Osgood Pierce, Ph. D., assistant professor of mathematics and physics for 5 years from September 1, 1884; Professor Crawford H. Toy, a member...