MARSHAL AT COMMENCEMENT

At the last stated meeting of the Alumni Association for the year 1914-15, Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott '58, of Cambridge, was elected president of the Association for the ensuing year. Robert Frederick Herrick '90, of Milton, was appointed Chief Marshal for Commencement 1915, and Gordon Ware '08, of Framingham, was elected a member of the standing committee on elections.

Robert Frederick Herrick '90, the Chief Marshal for Commencement, was appointed in accordance with the custom that the Marshal shall be chosen from the class which will be celebrating on that day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation. Mr. Herrick has been one of the most conspicuous members of his class ever since it entered college. He was captain of the University crew in his Junior year, and third marshal on Class Day, 1890. Since graduation, Mr. Herrick has been actively interested in rowing, serving for several years as chairman of the Rowing Committee, and has been largely responsible for the recent successes of the University. Last summer, after the races at New London, Mr. Herrick went to England with the University second crew, which won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta.

Dr. H. P. Walcott '58 Elected.

Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott '58, the new president of the Alumni Association, after graduating from college, studied medicine at the Medical School and at Bowdoin, as well as in Vienna and Berlin. He served for 33 years on the Massachusetts State Board of Health, of which he was chairman from 1886 to 1914. He has been for many years chairman of the Massachusetts Water and Sewerage Commission. He has also served as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Public Health Association and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and as vice-president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From 1887 to 1890 he was a member of the Board of Overseers of the College, and since then has been one of the Fellows, being now the senior member of that body. From 1900 to 1901, during one of the temporary absences of President Eliot, Dr. Walcott was Acting President. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Yale in 1907