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...Vice-President Hendricks received a warm welcome and spoke briefly. When our ex-Minister was introduced the enthusiasm was almost boundless, cheer followed cheer, and it was several minutes before he could proceed. He was listened to with the greatest attention. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Judge E. Reckword Hoar, Rev. James Freeman Clark, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, and others made remarks, and with the old alumni song, "Auld Lang Syne," the memorable dinner was concluded...
...overseers of Harvard college have been received from the electors at large with the follow result: Alexander Agassiz, '55, 1006; John Fisk, '63, 927; Edwin P. Seaver, '64, 853; John T. Morse, Jr., '60, 817; Roger Wolcott, '70, 428; Alexander McKenzie, '59, 344; George O. Shattuck, '51, 335; Samuel Hoar, '67, 333; T. Jefferson Coolidge, '50, 311; Henry L. Higginson, 310; Nathaniel Thayer, '71, 306; Moses Williams, '68, 299. These twelve candidates will be voted for to fill the six vacancies to be filled at the election commencement...
...purpose of genuine study. The report of the committee on the relations of the faculty to the overseers was adopted, and Hon. Mr. Lowell was appointed a committee to express the regret of the board in accepting the resignation of the president of the board, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar. Adjourned to June...
...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...
Among the officers of the society were, besides those already mentioned, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale, E. R. Hoar, and Charles Theodore Russell. The last meeting was held July 8th, 1839, and was adjourned, the journal says, to the first Monday of the next term...