Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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4 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. Just as, other things being equal, a man skilled in pure mathematics will be a better teacher of any branch of applied mathematics than one who is not land vice vcrsai, so is it in pure and applied Economics. Pure Economics is simply the theory of ideal industrial and commercial rela- tions and adjustments in ideal communities of wealth-seekers ideally related to each other, or in humanity viewed as one wealth-seeking community, with all its component parts in uniform and entirely recipro- cal relalions. Lrtissezfaire-isme is its necessary and inevitable outcome. Applied Economics, on the-other hand, inquires and shows in what manner, and to what extent, and for what reasons, the actual must modify the economic ideal. It recognizes nations because they, of right, exist, and have functions which need to be understood. It remembers, that in all nations, and in humanity as a whole, there are other than proprietary interests, and that to all these the industrial and commercial activities must be sociologically co-ordinated. It is willing that a little time and thought be given to the development of the noblest, strongest, and most symmetrical civil and social life, even though the annual crop of opium or tobacco be a few pounds less than otherwise might be possible. Studying thus all human interests, in all the various actual environments of communities, and nations, and families of nations, its reasons for desiring a tariff in one land or thne are precisely its reasons for opposing a tariff in another land or another time. Now, if one desired thoroughly to obscure these fundamental facts, and hopelessly to blind the student to them, what more effectual plan could be invented than the one described, according to which the whole wisdom of the college confesses its inability to decide between the claims of two bodies of doctrine supposed to be antagonistic, and weakly offers to its half-trained youth a personal option between two party champions, both selected on the very ground of their narrowncss and mental disqualifica- tion for seeing the true character of the question in debate. One narrow and partisan teacher in a college is bad enough, two create a situation twice as bad, but, when to their respective misapprehensions and false teachings the authoritative sanction of the government of the college is given, the evil is beyond estimation. One of the chief things for which institutions of liberal education exist, is precisely to rebuke and to antagonize all such Philistinlan Halbheiten as this. All friends of good learning will desire to aid the American Archaeo- logical Institute in its effort to secure the funds needed to erect a build- ing at Athens for the American School of Classical Studies. Address Professor John Williams White of Cambridge, Mass. The School has recently been opened to women. The same friends, if as broad-minded as they should be, will also be glad to learn that the Modern Language Society of America is developing a remarkably vigorous life. .By invi- tation of Boston University its second annual meeting was held in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Dec. 27-30, 1885. Nearly every strong college in the land was represented.

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I Y 2305 t ??l1- BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. SERIES II. BOSTON, MARCH, 1886. VOL. XIII. Colleges, universities, and other institutions receiving this volume of the YEAR BooK, are respectfully requested to acknowledge the same by for- warding to its Editors a copy of each new Catalogue, Annual Report, or similar publication. All correspondence with reference to admission to any College or School of this university should be addressed to the appropriate Dean. DURING the past year additions more or less important have been made to every Faculty. In September the School of Theology is to be opened in its fine new home on Mt. Vernon Street, a few rods west of the State House. The priceless Musee Guiinet, the finest collection ever made for the illustration of the religions of all nations, is about to be removed from Lyons, and housed in a magnificent new building ln Paris. What Boston millionnalre will follow the example of M. Guimct, and enrich our city and republic with a like museum? The attraction of such an institution would be felt by the learned and the unlearned from ocean to ocean. The opportunity is a precious one. Of late, in several colleges, a disposition has shown itself to attempt the teaching of Political Economy in a more impartial manner, by placing the work in the hands of two instructors, -the one a representa- tive of the Free Trade theory, the other a. representative of Protectlonism. For such a plan great credit has been claimed by its authors, and not a few fair-minded and influential organs of public ignorance have joined in its commendatlon. Now, if the supreme purpose of a college be to train up mere political partisans, -invincible free-traders, and equally invincible protectionists, -it must be confessed that no better scheme could probably be devised. On the other hand, if the aim of the college is to libernlize and broaden the mind, so that the student shall be able to rise above partisanship, and do full justice to all the social laws and truths involved in this question, then it is hard to see how a worse scheme could possibly be devised. To an enlightened mind there is no conflict whatsoever between the princi- ples which should underlie free trade, and the principles which should underlie a tariff, and no man can so correctly teach the principles of the one policy or of the other, as the man who teaches the principles of both.

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ITIIE CONTENTS. EDITORIAL NOTES . CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . THE UNIVIDRSITY DIRECTORY . . . . ORGANIZATION OF THE 'UNIVERSITY . THE FOUNDERS AND CORPORATION . . TIIE STANDING COIIIMITTEES . . . . TIIE OFFICIAL VISITORS . . . TIIE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL . . . . . . THE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND OTIIER OFFICERS . ALL NEW FOUNIJATIONS . . . . ROADS LEAD TO TIIULE . . . . THE CONVOCATION. -ADMISSIONS T0 DEGREES, ETC., IN 1885 . I. THE COLLEGES. TIIE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS . TIII9 COLLEGE OF MUSIC . . . TEE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE . II. THE PROFESSIO TI-IE SCIIOOL OF TIIEOLOGY . . THE SCHOOL OF LAW . . TIIE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE . . III. THE SCHOOL OF NAL SCHOOLS. ALL SCIENCES. FACULTY. -DESIGN. - INSTRUCTION . TIIE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS . . . THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME . DEGREES, ETC. . . . . SUMMARY OF STUDENTS . GENERAL INDEX . . PAGE 3, 4 5 6 7 0 10 11 12 13 19 38 40 47 66 73 S7 103 121 145 154 154 155 161 163