OCR Text |
Show PROF. LOWELL CONFIRMED AS PRESIDENT OF HARVARD Boston, Jan. 20 The board of overseers over-seers of Harvard College today con- ' firmed the nomination of Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell as president of Harvard Har-vard University to succeed M. Charles Wm. Eliot. The action of the overseers over-seers was merely formal as the power of choice virtually rested with tho corporation who sent the name of Prof. Lowell to the overseers last Wednesday. . Plans of the navy department include in-clude so complete a "chain of w ireless stations on the notion's foreign possessions pos-sessions that a warship may be reached from Wa'shinston anywhere in , the world. |