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LAMONT APPOINTED MARSHAL

Chairman of Endowment Fund Committee Prominent in Business.

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Thomas W. Lamont '92, member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, has been appointed chief marshal for Commencement this June. Announcement was made to this effect by the directors of the Alumni Association yesterday.

Mr. Lamont was elected an overseer of Harvard College in 1912. He served as president of the Associated Harvard Clubs for the year 1915-16. In his student days, he was president of the Crimson and business editor of the Monthly. Immediately on leaving college he was engaged in newspaper work on the New York Tribune for two years. Thereafter for nine years he was active in the manufacturing and mercantile business. After that he was engaged in the banking business, later entering the J. P. Morgan firm. He is also a director of various corporations. Mr. Lamont is "the man behind" the movement for the $10,000,000 fund to be added to the vested interests of the University.

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