Notice has been given by the Board of Overseers of Harvard College that an election of Overseers by the Alumni of said college qualified to vote therefore by chaper 173 of the Statutes of the Commonwealth, passed in the year 1865, will be held on Commencement day, the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1888, in Massachusetts Hall, within the college yard, for the choice of five Overseers, to be elected for the term of six years, to supply the place of the class which goes out of office at the close of said Commencement day. One Overseer to be elected for the term of five years, to supply the place of Theodore Lyman, resigned. One Overseer to be elected for the term of four years, to supply the place of James Freeman Clarke, deceased. One Overseer to be elected for the term of two years, to supply the place of Robert D. Smith, deceased. All the foregoing to be voted for on one ballot.

By the Legislative Act of 1865, "such persons as have received from the college a degree of Bachelor of Arts, or Master of Arts, or any honorary degree," are entitled to vote for Overseers; "provided however, that no member of the Corporation, and no officer of government of instruction in said college shall be eligible as an Overseer or entitled to vote in the election of Overseers; and, provided further, that no person who has received from said college the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be entitled to vote for Overseers before the fifth annual election after the graduation of his class.