Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CONTENTS. -0-- PAGE EDITORIAL NOTES . . 3,4 CONTENTS .... 5 THE UNIVERSITY DIRECToRY . . 6 TIIE FOUNDERB AND CoRPoRATIoN. 7 TIIE STANDING COMMITTEES . . 8 TUE OFFICIAL VISITORS . 9 TIIE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL . .... . 10 TIIE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND OTIIER' OIIFICIQIIS . . 11 HOPPJFUL SYMPTOMS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION . . 17 TIIE SITUATION IN GREAT BRITAIN . . 24 THE SITUATION IN FRANCE . . . 25 TIIE SITUATION IN GERMANY . . 26 AUSIIICIOUS MOVELIENTS IN AMERICA . . 28 NEW FOUNDATIONS . . . . . . 43 ADMITTED T0 DEGREES IN 1879 . . . . 45 I. TIIE COLLEGES. 'PHE COLLEGE OF LIRERAL ARTS . . 52 THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC . . . . 00 Tum OOLLEGE ow AGRICULTURE . . . . . . 75 Il. THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. THE Scuoor. OF TIIEOLOGY . . . . . . . 87 TIIE SCHOOL 011' LAW . . 99 TIIE SCHOOL on' MEDICINE ........ 113 III. TI-IE SCHOOL OF ALL SCIENCES. FACULTY. - DESIGN. - INSTRUCTION ...... 135 THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS . . . 143 THE UNIVERSITY OF Roma: . 144 DEGREES, ETC. . . . . 145 SUMMARY or STUDENTS . . 149 GENERAL INDEX . . 151

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4 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. question of the admission of women to the lecture-halls of our highest institutions of learning is only a question of time. This measure, which has originally common sense in its favor, is supported by a force of public opinion which is constantly and steadily growing in strength. It finds its principal opposi- tion in blind and unreasoning prejudice, and in a regard for a usage which has no better justification than that it is tradi- tional. Most of the arguments employed by our opponents are too frivolous and, unsubstantial to' be worthy'of attentiong while many are miserable attempts at satire, which betray the conscious weakness of their authors, and are as silly in sub- stance as they are unamiable in spirit. ff The positive evidences of our progress are manifest enough. They present themselves on every side, as well abroad as at home. Conservative England, with all her proverbial and almost superstitious respect for traditions, and all her constitu- tional reluctance to depart from old ways, even when they are shown to be wrong ways, is beginning to treat this subject with a grave earnestness which makes it plain that she cannot long persist in restricting the privileges of her great universities to the youth of a single sex .... As I survey the field of contro- versy, nothing is more manifest than that the cause of univer- sity education for women is gaining ground in New England daily. One after another her prominent educators, one after another her eminent citizens, are giving in their adhesion to the proposed measure. We hear, on the other hand, of no renunciations on the part of any who have once enlisted in this cause. It need hardly be said, that in a question of public opinion upon any subject whatever, where changes are always going on, and always going on in the same direction, the revolution no matter how slow the progress, must be complete at last. I have myself, therefore, no question that the time is coming, and that, relatively to the lifetime of nations, it is probably not very distant, when all our principal universities- Harvard and Yale, and Princeton and Columbia, and the rest - will open their lecture-rooms as freely to women as to men. The Independent, Feb. 19, 1880. Other striking indications of the progress of public sentiment on this subject are given in the last Annual Report of Boston University.

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY. lgi OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, 20 Beacon Street. OFFICE OF THE RECxsTEAn, 20 Beacon Street. OFFICE OF THE TEEAAUEEE, 20 Beacon Street. .-g... THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC . . . THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, THE THE THE THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY . . SCHOOL OF LAW . . . SCHOOL OF MEDICINE . . SCHOOL OF ALL SCIENCES, 20 BEACON STREET. Music IIALL. AMHERST, MAss. 36 BROMFIELD ST., BosToN 86 BROMFIELD ST., BosTON EAST CONCORD STREET. 20 BEACON STREET.