Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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NEW FOUNDATIONS. LARGE and immediate additions to the funds of the University are much needed. Thoroughly to equip the institution upon the plan and scale proposed, resources several times greater than any now possessed or promised will be absolutely necessary. A suitable Hall for the oilices, recitation-rooms, and laboratories ofthe College of Liberal Arts, is just now a peculiarly pressing need. Nor is any department as yet by any means adequately en- dowed. The Trustees cannot doubt that public-spirited men and women will gladly aid in creating t-he needed fa- cilities. The spirit of co-operation already manifested not only by the citizens of Boston, but also by friends of the institution throughout New England, and from beyond the boundaries of New England, is an assurance that the high- est hopes of the founders of the University are in time to be surpassed, and far surpassed, by the reality. But while no apprehensions can be felt about the remoter future, and while individuals are now giving with a gener- osity worthy of all praise, it should be remembered, that with institutions, as with men,,youth is a period of oppor- tunities inestimably precious, that many of these, if 'not improved at the timegare forever lost. The opportunities opening before this youthful University are unparalleledg but, without early additions to its pecuniary resources, some exceedingly important ones will have to pass unused. The following is an extract from the General Statutes of the University:- Nnw Fouxnsrroxs.- I. Any person giving or bequeathing to Boston University a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of establishing anew department, or for the general purposes of thc institution, shall receive the title of Associate Founder of Baslon University, and be published as such before the list of Trus- tees in the Year Book of the University. E

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KEY T0 ANCIENT COSMOLOGY. 29 other.1 Is it not the Psalmistfs H line of the heavens which is gone out through the very earth and on ff to the end of the world ? It is the Irminsul of the Germans, as expressly recognized by Grimm. It is the tower of Kronos. It is the Talmudic pillar which con- nects the Paradise celestial and the Paradise terrestrial. The fuller illustration and vindication of this key to ancient cosmology, its application to different systems of mythology and mythical geography, and the systematic exposition of said systems in accordance with this new interpretation, are tasks reserved for future and fuller treatises. The studies already completed render it certain that every existing systematic exposition of classic myth- ology is to be supplanted. Equally interesting is the question of the adaptation of this reconstruction of ancient cosmology to throw light on early Hebrew conceptions of the world and of Sheol. And, if the ancestors of the most ancient peoples had so correct a conception of the figure of the earth, our leading Historians of Culture have yet a good deal to learn respecting the mental state and capacity of prehistoric men. W. F. W. 1 Rig-Veda, X., 129, 5.

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NEW FOUNDATIONS. 31 II. Any person who may give or bequeath to the University, for any purpose acceptable to this corporation, a sum not less than Hfty thousand dollars, shall receive the title of Honorable Patron of Boston University, and be duly published as such in the Year Book of the University. III. Any person or persons giving or bequeathing to the Univer- sity a sum not less than forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of es- tablishing a Professorship in any department, shall have the privilege of giving name to such Professorship. In like manner a gilt or bequest of not less than twenty-fire thousand dollars for the purpose of founding an Adjunct Professorship shall entitle the giver to the same privilege. U IV. Any person or persons who will give or bequeath to the Uni- versity a sum not less than ten thousand dollars, to found a University Fellowship or Lectureship in any department, shall have the privilege of naming such Fellowship or Lectureship, and of nominating its first incumbent V. University Scholarships in the different departments shall be of three different classes: first, second, third, according as the endow- ment is three thousand, two thousand, or one thousand dollarsg and any person or persons founding a scholarship of any class or in any department shall have the privilege of naming the same, and of nomi- nating its first incumbent. FORMS OF BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Boston University the sum Of thousand dollars to be applied at their discretion for the general purposes of the U niversily. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Boston University the sum of lhousmul tlnllars, to be safely imresletl by them and called the Scholarship Funtl. The interest nf this jitntl shall he np- pliecl at their discretion to aitl tleserring students in the College of Liberal Arts for other spec-Med cleparltnentj. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of llnslon University the sum of lhousantlttlollarx, to he sqfbly invested by them as an entlolv- mentfin' the support of fu l'roksxorxhip of J in the Univer- sity fa Lectureshqz in the School of , a Fellowshqa in the School of All Seienees,ete.:1. ,. .