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Overseers' Meeting.

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The annual meeting of the board of overseers was held for the first time in the suite of rooms of the college, No. 50 State street, Hon E. Rockwood Hoar re-elected as president, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., was elected secretary for three years. The inspectors of elections reported that Henry Lee, Robert M. Morse, Jr., James Freeman Clarke, John O. Sargent and Henry W. Putnam had been chosen overseers for six years, and Francis C. Lowell for one year. The board concurred with the president and fellows in the appointment of John Joseph Hayes as instructor in elocution for 1886-87; Malverd A. Howe as instructor in surveying and drawing; Frederick Bradley, D. M. D., demonstrator in operating dentistry; in the reappointment of Joseph Ellsworth Waitt, D. M. D., as demonstrator in mechanical dentistry. Frank Lewis Van Cleef, A. B., was appointed a proctor, and Messrs. Green, Shattuck and Lincoln were appointed the auditing committee for the ensuing year.

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