New-York tribune., 1920-12-13
Noted Men Placed
On Committees of
Harvard Overseers
General Wood, Franklin and
Theodore Roosevelt. Wis
ter, Morgan and L. W. La
mont Among Those Named

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Dec. IA num-
Der of men of national prominence,
including General Leonard Wood,
Franklin d. Roosevelt, Owen Wister,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Thomas
W. Lamont and John Hays Hammond,
have been appointed members of the
various committees of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard University, and
as such will have general oversight
over the work of various departments
CT the university during the current
year.
Fhc personnel Of the executive com
mittee of the board remains the same
as last year with George Wigglesworth
"a. of Milton, Mass, as chairman. The
other members of this committee are:
Judge Robert Grant, '73, who is we'll
known as a novelist and author. and
is the president Of the board; Howard
Ellicott, ~, chairman of the Northern
Pacific Railway and formerly chairman
of the New Haven road; Robert T.
Herrick, 80; Francis L. Higginson jr,
90; Francis r. Appleton, rs, and
Thomas ". Lamont, '92.
On the committee on elections. Ed
win F. Gay, formerly dean Of the Har~
ward Graduate School Of Business Ad-
minstration, and now president Of the
New York Eening Post, has been cleo
ted chairman to succeed w. Cameron
Forbes, '92. former Governor General
of the Philippines.
The committee on Harvard College,
another Of the most important commit
tees, has new chairman in the per
son of jerome D. Greene. '96, Of New
York. and a new member in ofessor
Barrett Wendell, II. of Boston, who
takes the place Of Professor George
Herbert Palmer Ca Among the other
members of this committee are ]. Pier
pont Morgan, '59, the banker, and Ellery
Sedgwick, '94, editor Of The Atlantic
Monthly.
Owen Wister, 80, the novelist. serves
as chairman Of Two committees, those
! on English and cl, music.
General Wood a member Of the class
Of 1884 at the Harvard Medical School.
is at the head OF the committee on
military science and tactics, and its
members include Franklin d. Roose-
velt 'O4, recent Democratic candidate
for Vice President; Arthur Woods, '92
former Police Commissioner Of New
York: Theodore Roosevelt, '09; Charles
W Whittlesey, IL. B.. '0S, OF Lost
Battalion" fame, and George G.. Nc
Murtry, 80, who also had a conspicuous
record OF gallantry III the war. The
committee on Appleton Chapel arc
Phillips Brooks House, which is cor
cerncd with the religious life OF the
university. is composed Of number o.
we'll known clergymen and laymen. IN
Guiding the Rev. Paul Revere Frothing
ham, Sc; the Rev. Alexander Mann, thu
Rev George A. Gordon. 81. and th'
Rev. Samuel s. Drury, '01, headmaste
Of st. Paul's School, at Concord, n. II.
5 Judge Julian W. Mack, 81, Of Chi
cago and New York, is to preside Owe
the committee on economies. Dr
William S. Thaycr, '85, of Baltimore
: Medical School, while Judge Francis J
q Swayxc, 10, of New YORK, heads tn
committees on the Law School and tn
8 Graduate School Of Arts and Sciences
!, Other distinguished men VINO are I
y serve on one or more Of the forty
y eight committees which deal with ever
Z phase Of university life and activity
are President Emeritus Charles "
Eliot, '53; Paul Elmer More, '95. o
Princeton, \. j.; Eliot Wadsworth, '9$
r. of Boston, who is chairman Of tn
- executive committee Of the Jarvar
~ Endowment Fund; Frank A. Vanderil
"a Felix Warburg and George f. Baker jr
~ 80, the New York bankers; Presider
~ William A. Nelson, '9S, Of Smith Co
j. lege, who was formerly professor {
English at Harvard; Andrew }. Peter
IS '95, Mayor OF Boston; Elihu Thomson
n Hon. s. D., '09. acting president c
A. Massachusetts lntitute OF Technology
" Jane Harvey Robinson, '87, and Hem
.r Osborn Taylor, '7S, Of New York an
Is Henry Holt, Of New York, the pull
d. Usher. John Hays Hammond is to /
10 d member Of the committee OH II
c. Engineering School.