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...years 1853-4 and 1857-70 Professor Lovering was Regent of the University. He was interested in the Harvard Observatory and its growth was largely due to his energy. In 1867-76 he was connected with the United States Coast Survey. In 1868-9 he was granted a year's absence and in 1879 received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard. From 1854 to 1873 he was permanent secretary of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science and edited fifteen volumes of its proceedings. He had been elected a member of the American Acad. of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joseph Lovering. | 1/19/1892 | See Source »

Voted, that in the opinion of the Overseers it is desirable that the President and Fellows should consider the expediency of defining in the Statutes of the University the functions and duties of the Regent and should if practicable incorporate therein or in the duties of an advisory committee a proper supervision of the social clubs of the University in accordance with the general instructions of the President given to the Regent in July last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meeting of the Overseers. | 1/14/1892 | See Source »

...which the catalogue shows are well worth noting. The first changes found are those in the personnel of the administrative officers, chief of which is the appearance of the name of Professor Briggs as Dean of Harvard College in place of that of Professor Smith. The new office, the Regent of the College, is found this year for the first time, Professor Bartlett being named as the first regent in the history of the college. The regent is chairman of the parietal committee, and has charge of all the dormitories; all cases of sickness, etc., should be at once reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Catalogue. | 12/19/1891 | See Source »

...Andrew D. White, Yale, '53, succeeds Professor Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/13/1888 | See Source »

...President White, of Cornell, has been chosen to succeed Prof. Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/24/1888 | See Source »

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