PRESIDENT'S CHAIR IS BOUND BY TRADITION

"Of wood, the seat triangular, the back, arms, and logs loaded with turnery, and carved and turned in the most uncouth and whimsical forms," is the way Horace Walpole described the chair common to the county of Chesire and similar to the chair of the President of Harvard. The chair, which has been used in the College for the purpose of conferring degrees on Commencement day for time beyond the memory of man, is to be used next Monday when Mr. Conant is inaugurated in the Faculty Room in University Hall.

Vague report represents it to have been brought to the College during the presidency of Holyoke as a gift of the Reverend Ebenezer Turell of Medford. Turell was connected by marriage with the Mathers, by some of whom it was said to have been brought from England.