HARVARD COLLEGE 
BOARD OF OVERSEERS 
The following Amendment to the Rules and By-laws of the Board of 
Overseers, and Resolution, were adopted October 14, 1919: 
Amendment. No one, other than an Overseer still in office, shall 
serve on the same Visiting Committee more than five years consecutively, 
and at least one year must elapse before such member can be reappointed 
to such Committee. 
Resolution. To prevent the great number of changes which would 
result from the immediate application of the foregoing rule, it is hereby 
provided that said rule shall not become operative until after the appoint¬ 
ments of Visiting Committees for the college year of 1922-23; but that 
in the meantime, of any members who have served on the same Visiting 
Committee for five years consecutively, the two seniors in time of service 
shall each year be ineligible for reappointment, and none of those omitted 
shall be reappointed to the same committee until after the lapse of at 
least one year. If it becomes a question which of two such members who 
have served an equal time shall be omitted, the senior in age shall be the 
one who shall not be reappointed. 
Wintheop H. Wade, 
Secretary. 
