At the last Commencement the board of overseers of Harvard University voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring honorary degrees as follows: Degree of doctor of laws, Charles Stebbins Fairchild, Joseph Hodges Choate, Walcott Gibbs. Degree of doctor of divinity, Abiel Abbott Livermore. Degree of master of arts, Edward Burgess, William Endicott, Jr., John White Chadwick.

The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in reappointing Charles Harrington, M. D., instructor in materia medica and hygiene for 1888-89: Horatio Cook Merriam, D. M. D., in operative dentistry; Allston Gray Bouve, D. M. D., in operative dentistry; George Howard Monks, M. D., in surgical pathology; Jere Edmund Stanton, M. D., D. M. D., in oral pathology and anatomy; William Parker Cooke, D. M. D., in operative dentistry; Edward Earl Hopkins, D. M. D., in operative dentistry; and to concur in appointing Forrest Greenwood Eddy, D. M. D., instructor in operative dentistry for 1888-89.