News
Harvard Alumni Email Forwarding Services to Remain Unchanged Despite Student Protest
News
Democracy Center to Close, Leaving Progressive Cambridge Groups Scrambling
News
Harvard Student Government Approves PSC Petition for Referendum on Israel Divestment
News
Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 Elected Co-Chair of Metropolitan Mayors Coalition
News
Cambridge Residents Slam Council Proposal to Delay Bike Lane Construction
At an 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 and the propriety of printing the same in English. Mr. Clark, the president of the university, and Messrs. Peabody, Parker and Saltonstall were appointed a committee to consider and report on the whole subject of the college degrees. The board refused to sustain a motion that the seat of Judge Endicott, in the board had been vacated by his acceptance of his election as a member of the corporation.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.