At a special meeting of the Corporation, the following appointments were made: Robert Henry Vose, Assistant in Surgery; Samuel Wood Chase, Student at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole; Harrison Randall Hunt, Student at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole; William Arthur Berridge, Proctor in Divinity Hall; Melville Conley Whipple, Sanitary Inspector; Reginald Scott Dean, Assistant in Chemistry; William Ewart Hudson, Assistant in Chemistry; Ronald Martin Foster, Assistant in Metallurgy and Metallography; Ernest Henry Wilson, Assistant at the Arnold Arboretum; Arthur W. Phillips, "Austin Teaching Fellow" in Chemistry; Earnest Albert Hooton, Instructor in Anthropology; Carl Ludwig Schrader, Instructor in Gymnastics; Edward Vere Brewer, Arthur Burkhard, Frank Stanton Cawley, Asbury Haven Herrick, Ray Waldron Pettengill, and Friedrich Schoenemann, Instructors in German; Roger Noble Burnham, Instructor in Modelling; William Graves Perry, Instructor in Architectural Design; Walter Grant Thomas, Instructor in Architectural Design; Melville Conley Whipple. Instructor in Sanitary Chemistry; William Eustis Brown, Instructor in Public Health Administration; Robert Irving Little, Instructor in Romance Languages; Gifford LeClear, Lecturer on Architecture; William Stanley Parker, Lecturer on Architectural Practice; Charles Howard Walker, Lecturer on Decorative Design; George Sarton, Lecturer on Philosophy; and the following Tutors under the Division of History, Government, and Economics: James Washington Bell, Arthur Harrison Cole, Philip Green Wright, Arthur Eli Monroe, Edmond Earle Lincoln, Frederick Schenck, Richard Ager Newhall, Frederick Ernest Richter, Frederick May Eliot, John Valentine Van Sickle.

The Sheldon Prize Fellowships for 1916-17, for travel and study, were awarded the following: Roy William Chesnut, Will Goettling, Samuel Sewall, Edward Charles Ehrensperger, and William John Kerr (in Medicine).

The Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship for 1916-17 was awarded to Cloyd Laporte '16, of St. Louis, Mo.

The following scholarships were awarded: Scholarship of the Class of 1867 to John Blauvelt Hopkins '19, of Wellesley Hills; Thomas Hall Scholarship to Ralph Hubert Hammond '19, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mary L. Whitney Scholarships to Henry Alpern '19, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Harold Theodore Tisdale '19, of Allston; Thomas Hall Scholarship to LeRoy Henry Albert Head '19, of Dorchester; Normal School Scholarship to Linford Bliss Everitt '17, of Westfield, Pa.

It was announced that the Ricardo Prize Scholarship had been awarded to Jacob Viner of the Graduate School, of Arts and Sciences, and that Honorable Mention had been awarded to Paul Howard Douglas, also of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The vote of the Faculty which previously read that every Freshman should be examined physically at the beginning of the academic year, was changed so as to read that every student registering for the first time in Harvard College should be examined physically at the beginning of the academic year.

At a meeting of the Board of Overseers of the University, the following appointments were made: Ernest Edward Tyz- zer, George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Charles James White, Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology; Arthur Dehon Hill, Professor of Law; Percy Goldthwait Stiles, Assistant Professor of Physiology; James Homer Wright, Assistant Professor of Pathology; James Savage Stone, Instructor in Surgery; Alexander Swanson Begg, Instructor in Anatomy; Channing Frothingham, Jr., Instructor in Medicine; and William Henry Smith, Instructor in Medicine