TWENTY MEN SELECTED AS CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Twenty men have been selected as candidates for the Board of Overseers by the nominating committee of the Alumni Association.

The candidates are as follows:

Mr. Herbert Parker '78 of Lancaster, Mass., lawyer and former attorney-general of Massachusetts.

Mr. Charles A. Coolidge '81 of Boston, Architect.

Mr. Joseph Lec '83 of Boston, social worker and former member of the Boston School Committee.

Dr. Williams S. Thayer '65 of Baltimore, physician and recent president of the Association of American Physicians.

Mr. Franklin Remington '87 of Oyster Bay, N. Y. engineer and business man.

Mr. Morton D. Hull '89 of Chicago, lawyer.

Mr. Francis Rogers '91 of New York, musician.

Mr. Jeremiah Smith Jr. '92 of Boston, lawyer.

Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt; M.D. '94 of San Francisco, physician and professor of medicine at the University of California.

Mr. Stevens Heckscher '96 of Stafford, Pa., lawyer.

Mr. William A. Neilson, A.M. '96 of Northampton, Mass., president of Smith College.

Mr. Evan Hollister '97 of Buffalo, lawyer.

Mr. Henry U. Sims, LL.B. '97 of Birmingham, Ala, lawyer.

Mr. Henry James '99 of New York, writer and former manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Mr. G. Cook Kimball, '00 of Pittsburgh, manufacturer.

The Reverend Samuel S. Drury '01 of Concord, N. H., clergyman and rector of Saint Paul's School.

Mr. Grenville Clark '03 of New York City, lawyer.

Mr. Roger Pierce '04 of Milton, Mass., banker.

Mr. Benjamin Loring Young '07 of Weston, Mass, lawyer and Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Mr. John Richardson '08 of Boston, lawyer.

Will Elect by New System

The names of these twenty men will appear on the ballots to be sent about February 15 to the graduates eligible to vote, and the ten who receive the largest number of votes by April 1 will be declared nominated. Of these ten, five will be elected by the new system which goes into effect this year, graduates being given the choice of casting their ballots in Cambridge on Commencement Day or of voting by postal ballot. The five men elected will serve for six-year terms.

The law has the largest representation in the list of candidates. Nine of the twenty are lawyers, one of them being also in government service. Three are business men; two are physicians, one of them being also a university professor; one is a college president; one a clergyman and headmaster. There are also one architect, one musician, one social worker, and one author.

Seven of the candidates come from the Boston district, two from other parts of New England; four from New York and vicinity, one from the Philadelphia district, one from Baltimore, one from Pittsburgh, one from Buffalo, one from Chicago, one from Alabama, and one from California.

Most of the men selected have been prominent in the affairs of the University. Dr. Thayer and Mr. Joseph Lee have already served on the Board of Overseers, Dr. Thayer having been chairman of the Overseers Committees on the Medical and Dental Schools. President Neilson was for many years professor of English at the University. Mr. Kimball is a former president of the Associated Harvard

Clubs and vice-president of the Alumni Association. Mr. Pierce was Secretary to the Corporation and secretary of the Alumni Association, and Mr. Richardson was vice-chairman of the Endowment Fund committee Mr. Young is a graduate member of the Harvard Athletic Committee. Most of the others have served as directors of the Alumni Association or as members of various committee appointed by the Board of Overseers.

The election of directors of the Alumni Association will be conducted according to the same system, if this plan is approved by the delegates at a forum to be held in Cambridge on February 14. Nine men have been chosen for the preliminary slate, three to be ultimately elected for three-year terms. The candidates for directors of the Alumni Association are as follows:

Mr. W. Cameron Forbes '92 of Norwood, Mass., former Governor General of the Phillippines.

Mr. Frederick Roy Martin '93, general manager of the Associated Press.

Mr. Archibald G. Thacher '97 of Great River, L. I., lawyer.

Mr. Charles Jackson '98 of Boston, former secretary of the Alumni Association.

Mr. Henry S. Dennison '99 of Framingham, Mass., manufacturer.

Mr. Henry L. Shattuck '01 of Boston, lawyer.

Mr. Remsen B. Ogilby '02 of Hartford, Conn., president of Trinity College.

Mr. Richard Inglis '03 of Cleveland, lawyer.

Mr. Richard B. Wigglesworth '92 of Milton, Mass., lawyer