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Voted, That the gift of our honored senior member, Mr. William Endicott, and other of our associates, of funds for the erection in the First Church in Boston of a memorial to Governor Hutchinson, to be offered to the Church in the name and as the gift of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, be gratefully accepted.

Voted, That the President be authorized and requested to appoint a Committee of three members of the Society to confer with the Memorials Committee of the First Church, and to make all arrangements for preparing and placing this tablet.

The PRESIDENT appointed as this committee Mr. HENRY HERBERT EDES, the Rev. CHARLES EDWARDS PARK, and Mr. THOMAS MINNS.

Mr. FREDERICK L. GAY exhibited several books and a photograph of a portrait of Hugh Peters, and made the following remarks:

On reading the Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University, I was surprised to find no mention of the names of the members of the first Board of Overseers. The names of those appointed by the General Court “to take order for a colledge at Newtowne," and of those who held office at the first Commencement, seem worthy of a few lines of printer's ink, to say the least. They were all men of distinction in their time, and to ignore them entirely is to blot out the memory of their help to the cause of learning in this country. Their names are practically buried from sight. To find them one must dig up the pages of the Massachusetts Colony Records and New Englands First Fruits. On November 20, 1637:

Comittee as to y colledg at New Towne.

For the colledge, the Governo", Mr Winthrope, the Deputy, Mr Dudley, the Treasurer, Mr Bellingham, M' Humfrey, Mr Herlakenden, Mr Staughton, Mr Cotton, Mr Wilson, Mr Damport, Mr Wells, Mr Sheopard, & Mr Peters, these, or the greater part of them, whereof Mr Winthrope, Mr Dudley, or Mr Bellingham, to bee alway one, to take order for a colledge, at Newetowne.1 This body of men made up the first Board of Overseers of Harvard College in 1637. Its membership was unchanged, so far as we know, 1 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 217.

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