Word: walcott
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Another evidence of the dissolution of that generation of men which started Harvard University on her tremendous nineteenth century expansion is marked by the resignation from the Corporation of Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott. As a friend of the late Charles William Eliot and in his various official capacities to the University Dr. Walcott has witnessed the development of the institution from one of centralized to national significance. Thirty seven years of service have placed him in a position where he may now survey the results of the efforts expended by him and his associates. And thirty seven years have given...
...announced at University Hall yesterday that Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott '58 has resigned as a member of the Corporation after 37 years of service to the University...
...election of Jeremiah Smith Jr. '92 to succeed Dr. Walcott was ratified yesterday at a special meeting of the Board of Overseers, Mr. Smith is a member of the Boston law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, and was from 1924 to 1926 Commissioner General for Hungary of the League of Nations. At the time of his resignation from this post, he received much publicity through his refusing the check for $100,000 which the Hungarian government pressed upon him. He was nominated this year for the Board of Overseers, but as a member of the Corporation...
...Walcott was born in Salem in 1838, and after graduating from Harvard College, studied in the Harvard and Bowdoin Medical Schools, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the latter institution in 1861. He then studied for two years in Vienna and Berlin, returning to Cambridge to practice his profession. In 1887, he became and Overseer, serving until his election as a Fellow in 1890. He was acting President of Harvard in 1900-01, and received an honorary degree from Yale...
Died. Dr. Charles Doolittle Walcott, 76, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; following a stroke of apoplexy; in Washington...