The postal ballot for the nomination of overseers, closed June 1, resulted in the following nominations:

Howard Elliott '81, of Boston.

John Pierpont Morgan '89, of New York.

William Thomas '73, of San Francisco.

Amory Glazier Hodges '74, of New York.

Francis Lee Higginson, Jr., '00, of Boston.

Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe '87, of Boston.

Hugh McKennan Landon '92, of Indianapolis.

Eliot Wadsworth '98, of Boston.

Samuel Smith Drury '01, of Concord, N. H.

Samuel Ellsworth Winslow '95, of Worcester.

These ten names are arranged in the order of the number of votes received by the respective candidates, and will stand in the same order on the official ballot of Commencement Day. There were in all fifteen candidates for nomination. The remaining five candidates stood in the following order in the number of votes polled in the postal ballot: Odin Roberts '86, Philip Stockton '96, James Arnold Lowell '91, Franklin Greene Balch '88, and Robert Homans '94.

The total number of votes cast was 5,584, against 4,662 last year. The number of defective ballots has increased only from 93 to 104. The increase of the electorate by some 8,000 votes seems to be clearly reflected in the total vote.

The five who receive the highest number of votes on Commencement will be elected for the term of six years to fill the places made vacant by the expiration of the terms of President Eliot, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Francis Lee Higginson '63, George Angier Gordon '81, and Abbot Low Mills '81.