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Nominations for Overseers

The Alumni Association of Harvard University issued its nominations for Overseers on Saturday. Twenty names are put up, of which the graduates will nominate ten by postal ballot, of whom five will be chosen on Commencement Day by official ballot, to serve for a term of six years each. This year, for the first time, no retiring officers were re-nominated.

According to the recent vote of the Corporation, all graduates of the College, the Scientific School, the Graduate School of Applied Sciences, and all holders of the degree of Bachelor of Science after residence in Harvard College shall be entitled to vote for Overseers, five years from the time of receiving the degree.

The following twenty names were put up: R. S. Peabody '66, of Boston; F. Dodge '67, of Belmont; Rt. Rev. W. Lawrence '71, of Cambridge; J. F. Jackson '73, of Brookline; F. I. Swayze '79, of Newark; W. A. Gaston '80, of Boston; C. G. Washburn '80, of Worcester; E. W. Atkinson '81, of Brookline; G. W. Markham '81, of St. Louis; C. Sprague '81, of Buffalo; C. D. Dickey '82, of New York; J. F. Moors '83, of Boston; W. C. Baylies '84, of Tannton; R. W. Boyden '85, of Beverly; W. Endicott, Jr., '87, of Boston; O. Prescott, Jr., '89, of Dartmouth; R. F. Herrick '90, of Milton; J. A. Lowell '91, of Chestnut Hill; R. Homans '94, of Boston; J. W. Farley '99, of Brookline.

Directors of Alumni Association.

The Alumni Association has also issued its nominations for directors of the Association, of which seven will be elected. Among other work to be undertaken by the Association, is the publishing of a catalogue of complete lives of all Harvard men, whether or not graduates, the re-editing of the Quinquennial Catalogue, and the editing of the Harvard Bulletin.

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The nominations for directors follow: H. J. Jeffries '54, of Hoston; Rt. Rev. W. Lawrence '71, of Cambridge; J. Lowell '77, of Chestnut Hill; I. T. Burr '79, of Milton; R. W. Ellis '79, of Springfield; R. M. Saltonstall '80, of Chestnut Hill; A. Thorndike '81, of Weston; R. S. Gorham '85, of Newton; H. M. Williams '85, of Cambridge; H. L. Clark '87, of Philadelphia; E. J. Rich '87, of Winchester; W. C. Sabine '88, of Cambridge; H. C. Weld '89, of Boston; to represent the faculty, E. H. Wells '97, of Boston; to represent the Harvard Clubs of New England, N. Clifford '90, of Portland, Maine; to represent the Harvard Club of New York, T. W. Slocum '90, of New York; to represent the other Harvard Clubs, G. D. Markham '81, of St. Louis, F. A. Delano '80, of Chicago.

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