At a special meeting held yesterday afternoon, the Board of Overseers voted to concur with the Corporation in the appointment of the following to be members of the Board of Preachers for 1902-1903: Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., of Cincinnati; Rev. Francis Brown, D.D., LL.D., of New York; Professor George F. Moore, A.M., D.D.; Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, Philadelphia; Professor William W. Fenn, S.T.B. Professor Francis G. Peabody is chairman of the board.

The Board of Overseers also voted to concur with the Corporation in electing Edward Charles Jeffrey, A.B., Toronto 1888, Ph.D. Harvard, assistant professor of vegetable histology; in electing Professor Charles Gross a member of the Library Council; and in reappointing the following instructors without limit of time of service: Frank Russell '96 in anthropology, Irvah L. Winter '86 in elocution, and Julian L. Coolidge '95 in mathematics, the latter with leave of absence for two years.