Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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. Di .J we -N, 1 if 'eff T. BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. Simms I. BOSTON, MARCH, 1882. Vol.. IX. IN grateful commemoration of the munificent legacy of Mr. IsAAc Rrcn, first Founder of the University, the Trustees established in January last sixty-four free Scholarships for the benefit of deserving and needy students in the College of Lib- eral Arts. Fuller information may be found on p. 53 of the present issue. The attention of former graduates of the College of Liberal Arts is called to the new provisions for their promotion to the degree of Master oi' Arts. As it is in consideration of the expressed wishes of some'of their number that the more, favor- able conditions have been established, it is expected that from year to year increasing numbers will avail themselves of the opportunity afforded. The papers hitherto presented in the successive volumes of the YEAR Boolz have related more or less directly to the educa- tional questions of the hour. This year, in closer accord with the usage of the gymnasial and university annuals of Europe, a scientific topic is treated. The suggestion that the true cos- mology of I-Iomer has for more than four hundred years eluded the research of scholars is hardly less startling and paradoxical than was in its time the great thesis of Copernicus. Never- theless, as the True Key herewith printed will help to show,- It is not Homer nods, but we that dream. Since its first publication no critic has publicly challenged its correctness. Meantime in private correspondence several of

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4 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. the most distinguished and specially competent scholars of Europe, such as Mr. Gladstone, Professor Sayce of' Oxford, and Professor Tiele of Leyden, have indicated their favorable inclination of judgment toward it. The graduates of the School of Theology areconsidering a proposition to modify the existing constitution of their Associa- tion in such wise as to substitute an annual meeting for the triennial one, and to introduce monthly meetings for the pro- motion of post-graduate study. To open the advantages of the monthly meetings to all, it is in contemplation to allow members at a distance to submit the evidences and results of their studies in theses which will be examined and adjudged by censors. Until action shall be taken by the Association, alumni desiring fuller information may address the secretary of a temporary organization of the local graduates, the Rev. A. H. Herrick, S.T.B., Cambridge, Mass. At the request of some of the most iniiuential ladies of New York City, President Barnard of Columbia College has re- printed, under the heading of The Higher Education of Women, the relative passages of his Annual Reports for the past three years. All persons interested in the steady progress and latest phases of this good cause, in England as well as in America, will find this pamphlet an exceedingly valuable one. Colleges, universities, and other institutions receiving this 'volume of the Y1-:An Boon, are respectfully requested to acknowl- edge the same by forwarding to its Editors a copy of each new Catalogue, Annual Report, or other similar publication. All correspondence with reference to admission to any College or School of this University should be addressed to the appro- priate Dean. '