Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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NEW FOUNDATIONS. Within the past year a new Professorship has been es- tablished, and a new building opened. Further additions to the funds and appliances 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. No department is as yet, by any means, ade- quately endowed. The Trustees cannot doubt that pub- lic-spirited men and women will gladly aid in creating the needed facilities. The spirit of co-operation already mani- fested 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 assur- ance that the highest hopes of the founders of the Univer- Sity 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 generosity worthy of all praise, it should be remem- bered, that with institutions, as with men, youth is a period of opportunities inestimably precious, that many of these, if not improved at the time, are forever lost. The Opportunities opening before this youthful University are unparalleled, but, without early additions to its pecuniary resources, some exceedingly important ones willhave to pass unused. The following is an extract from the General Statutes of the University:- NEw FoUNnA1'1oNs.-I. Any person giving or bequeathing to Boston University a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of establishing a new department, or for the general

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30 BOSTON UNI VERSITY YEA IZ BOOK. entirely in keeping with the idea that about and above the Arctic Pole is peculiarly the home of the gods. So the fact that Calypso is the daughter of Atlas becomes at once significant, when it is remembered, that, in the oldest Greek mythology, the proper location of Atlas is not at the west, in Libya, but in the extreme north, at the Pole.1 The four-fold fount, fiowing in four opposite directions, further identities the place with the mythical polar Gotterberg of the Iranians, Hindus, and other peo- ples? The same must be said of the beauty of the isle, which was so adorned with groves, and 4' soft meadows of violets, that the poet closes his description by asserting, that, ff on beholding it, even an Immortal would be seized with wonder and delight. 3 Finally, as we should know in advance, it is apparently Notos which bears the voyager thither, and Boreas which brings him thence to the Phaeacians. All evidences, therefore, conspire to tix the location of the long-adrift isle at the Arctic Pole. The Nmuch-contriving Odysseus crowns all his other achievements in the most fitting inanncr. Anticipating the belated Kanes and Franklins and Payers of our day, he snatchcs the supreme prize of Polar exploration! In conclusion, then, the recovery of the true Homeric conception of the Abode of Living Men pours a flood of light over the entire Odyssey, showing what we stated more than three years ago, namely, that the wanderings of Odysseus are a representation, in highly poetical form, of an imaginary circnmnavigation of the mythical Earth in its upper or northern hemisphere, including a trzjo to the under or southern hemisphere, and a visit to the North Pole. W. F. W. 1 K. H. W. VESLUKER, Mythisehe Geographte, Leipsic, 1832, p. 133. 2 See P. F. Kremer., Die Sehlipfangsgeschichte und Lchre vom Paraalies, Basel, 1861, pp. 796-799. JULIUS GRILL, 1Jf8E7'Z7IiilCI'dB7' Menschheit, Leipsic, 1875, vol. i. pp. 223-279. W. Mimzrzn, Die ivorehri.-xtliche Unsterblichlceitslehre, vol. ii. pp. 11, 12. See chapter on The Quadrifuroate River, in WARREN, Paradise Found. 8 Odyssey, v. 63-75. Compare Paradise Found, pp. 235, 236.

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32 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. purposes of the institution, shall receive the title of Associate Founder of Boston University, and be published as such before the list of 'I'rus- tees in the Year Book of the University. H II. Any person who may give or bequeath to the University, for any purpose acceptable to this corporation, a sum not less than fifty 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. H Ill. Any person or persons giving or bequeathing to the Univer- sity a sum not less than forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of establishing a Professorship in any department, shall have the privi- lege of giving name to such Professorship. In like manner a gift or bequest of not less than twenty-five 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 diiferent classes,-first, second, third, according as the en- dowment 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 nominating 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 University. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Boston University the sum of thousand dollars, to be safely invested by them and called the Scholarship Fund. The interest of this fund shall be ap- plied at their discretion to aid deserving students in the College of Liberal Arts for other specwed deparlmcntj. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Boston University the sum of thousand dollars, to be safely invested by them as an endow- mentfor the support of fa Projessorshqo of fl, in the Univer- sity fa Leclureship in the School of , a Fellowshio in the School of All Sciences, etc.j.