An adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday forenoon at 70 Water street, Hon. William Russell presiding. It was voted to recommend to the corporation that no honorary degree shall be conferred as a compliment to mere official positions. It was also voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following statute: Persons who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to any of the courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several faculties have the right to deprive any such student of his privileges if he abuse them or fail to use them. It was also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain a strict discipline, and to admit in this department any persons who show that they seek these advantages for the 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 18.