The annual election to the Board of Overseers of the University was held on Commencement Day, June 29. The total number of votes cast was much larger than usual. The balloting resulted in the election of the following: for six years, Charles William Eliot '53, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Francis Lee Higginson '63, George Angier Gordon '81, Abbot Low Mills '81; for two years, Augustus Everett Willson '69.

Three directors of the Alumni Association at large were chosen on the same day as follows: William Roscoe Thayer '81, Evert Jansen Wendell '82, James Freeman Curtis '99.