Nominations for Board of Overseers

The list of candidates for the Board of Overseers has been balloted on by the alumni, and the Committee on the Nomination of Overseers has announced the result of the postal ballot. This year at Commencement there are six vacancies on the Board to be filled; five for the full term of six years, and one for a term of two years.

The names of the first twelve men on the postal ballot are, according to the usual practice, placed in nomination. The names given below are listed not in chronological order as they will appear on the official ballot on Commencement Day, but according to their standing on the postal ballot:

Charles William Eliot '53, of Cambridge.

Theodore Roosevelt '80, of Oyster Bay, L. I.

Francis Lee Higginson '63, of Boston.

Abbot Low Mills '81, of Portland, Ore.

Augustus Everett Willson '69, of Frankfort, Ky.

George von Lengerke Meyer '79, of Washington, D. C.

John Wells Farley '99, of Boston.

Rodolphe Louis Agassiz '92, of Boston.

George Angier Gordon '81, of Boston.

Francis Randall Appleton '75, of New York.

Thomas Williams Slocum '90, of New York.

Edward Bowditch '69, of Albany, N. Y.

This year 5756 ballots were received, as against 4425 in 1909, and 2883 in 1908.