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...meeting of the Board of Overseers on Thursday, it was voted to concur with the vote of the president and fellows abolishing the chair of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek. This was the professorship held by the late Prof. Sophocles, and was created for him in 1860. We doubt if there was ever any great demand for instruction in Prof. Sophocle's peculiar subjects, and in late years the courses were virtually abandoned. The main monuments of the professorship are the works of its only holder-the Greek Grammar and the dictionary...
...special meeting of the board of overseers held in Boston Thursday, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Arthur Prescott Lothrop, A. B., as proctor; William Baker Hills, M. D., assistant professor of chemistry for five years, from September 1, 1884; to concur in the vote to abolish the professorship of ancient patristic and modern Greek, established by the vote of April 28, 1860. The vote of the president and fellows, electing John Williams White professor of Greek, was laid over under the rules of the board. It was voted that the annual report...
...fail to be interesting in its results. Every Harvard student, however doubtful he may feel about the presence of forty men-of-letters in this country who are worthy of membership in an American academy, must feel that if such a body is to be chosen by popular vote he should have a voice in the selection. Therefore we call upon our readers to send in lists to us, which we will promptly forward to the Critic. The lists should contain the names of forty American authors who are thought worthy of a place in an American academy. The representatives...
This evening a mass meeting will be held in Holden Chapel to take action upon the recent vote of the faculty adopting the athletic resolutions. This means is taken further to inform the authorities what the feeling of the whole college is upon this most important matter. No stone is being left unturned that will help convince these authorities that they were not in accord with the wishes of the students when they adopted those rules. First the athletic organizations started the ball rolling with their petition and now the feeling being that all should have a hand...
...importance of a full attendance at this meeting. If the petition is to have any weight at all, it will be because it voices the sentiment of the college. For this reason, therefore, we urge every man who takes any interest in Harvard athletics to be present and vote for or against the ratification of the petition as his convictions prompt...