There has been considerable speculation during the past two months as to who would prove acceptable to both the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and be elected to the office of President of the University. The Corporation is practically unlimited in its selection and it may decide upon someone entirely unsuspected by the public or by other members of the University. Nevertheless it seems to be the prevailing opinion of graduates and the public press that the choice will fall upon some one of the men mentioned below.

For the convenience of its readers the CRIMSON has also published the names of the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, whose duty it is to elect the new President. The election originates with the Corporation which communicates its decision to the Overseers for their approval or rejection. In case the nomination is rejected the Corporation is obliged to make another choice. The same man may be re-nominated, which happened in the case of President Eliot's election, or the Corporation may propose a new name. In either case the process is the same and the Overseers have the final decision.

Following is a list of members of the two organizations:

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, commonly known as the Corporation, consist of Charles William Eliot '53, president; Henry Pickering Walcott '58, Henry Lee Higginson '55, Francis Cabot Lowell '76, Arthur Tracy Cabot '72, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellows; and Charles Francis Adams, 2nd., '88, treasurer. The Board of Overseers consists of the President and Treasurer of the University, ex officiis, and the following persons by election: Francis Lee Higginson '63, James Jackson Storrow '85, George Angier Gordon '81, Francis Randall Appleton '75, William Watson Goodwin '51, Moorfield Storey '66, Henry Shippen Huidekoper '62, John Noble '50, Winslow Warren '58, Paul Revere Frothingham '86, Stephen Minot Weld '60, William Caleb Loring '72, Frederic Adrian Delano '85, Louis Adams Frothingham '93, George Brune Shattuck '63, James Tynedale Mitchell '55, Frederick Perry Fish '75, Simon Newcomb '58, Amory Appleton Lawrence '70, William Lawrence '71, William Endicott, Jr., '87, George Dickson Markham '81, Robert Swain Peabody '66, William Alexander Gaston '80, John Davis Long '57, Robert Grant '73, William Rand, Jr., '88, Moses Williams '68, John Collins Warren '63.

The following men have been most widely mentioned as possible successors to President Eliot:

LeBaron Russell Briggs.

Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs '75 has been identified with Harvard principally through his eleven years of service as Dean of the College, from 1891 to 1902. Through that position he probably came into contact with more Harvard men than any other man, with the possible exception of Dean Shaler. At present his acquaintance with Harvard men, young and old, is probably unrivalled. Previously to his appointment as Dean he was for six years an assistant professor of English. In 1904 he was appointed to the chair of Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since 1903 he has also been president of Radcliffe. Dean Briggs has found many ways beside his work as Dean to come into close relations with the undergraduates. Especially has this been the case during the last two years through his position as chairman of the Athletic Committee. In recent years he has made many speeches before Harvard clubs in this vicinity and the west. He was born in Salem, December 11, 1855.

Nicholas Murray Butler.

President Nicholas Murray Butler has been president of Columbia University since 1902. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and a scholar, as his long list of honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed intercollegiate football, which was abolished there in 1906. President Butler was born in Elizabeth, N. J., April 2, 1862.

Edwin Francis Gay.

Professor Edwin Francis Gay is a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1890. Since 1902 he has been a member of the Economics department of the University, becoming professor in 1906. Last spring he was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and was given charge of this new department. Professor Gay has studied abroad, and in 1902 received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. He was born in Detroit, Mich., October 27, 1867.

Jerome Davis Greene.

Mr. Jerome Davis Greene '96 has been President Eliot's secretary as well as secretary to the Corporation for the last eight years. In this capacity he has been brought in very close touch with the administration of the University and with President Eliot's policies and aims. Before entering upon his secretaryship Mr. Greene was engaged in the publication business in the office of the University Press. At present he is making a tour of the Harvard Clubs in the Middle West from which he will return early in February. Mr. Greene was born October 12, 1874.

Charles Homer Haskins.

Professor Charles Homer Haskins has been professor of history in the University since 1902, coming from the University of Wisconsin where he had held a similar chair since 1892. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins of the class of 1887 and also received the degree of Ph.D. there in 1890. He studied at Berlin and Paris and became an instructor at Johns Hopkins whence he went to Wisconsin. Professor Haskins is now chairman of the department of History and Political Science. He was born in Meadville, Pa., December 21, 1870.