Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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8 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. The University Senate.-The members of the University Council, together with all the regular professors in the different schools and colleges, constitute the University Senate. All promotions to degrees are in the name of this body and of the Corporation. The University Convocation. - This body consists of all persons who have acquired any Degree or Diploma of Graduation in the University. Every promotion to a degree, or to the status of a graduate, is, accordingly, promotion to membership in the Convocation with defined privileges of representation in the government of the University, and with corresponding duties. The Boards of Visit0rs.- Boards of Visitors are annually ap- pointed by the Trustees for the inspection of the work of the several Colleges and Schools, and for the making of reports to the Corpora- tion. The chairman of the standing committee of the Corporation on a College or School is in each case ex-ojicio chairman of the Board of Visitors of said School or College, and is charged with the duty of calling the meetings, and of presenting the reports of the said Board to the Trustees of the University. ,. The Colleges.-The Statutes of the University piovide for a group of Colleges with distinct Faculties and administrations. The College of Liberal Arts and the College of Music were opened almost immediately after the University was chartered, while the place of the College of Agriculture has been supplied since January, 1875, by the Massachusetts Agricultural College. . The Professional Schools. -All departments of the Univer- sity so organized as to presuppose on the part of the student a colle- giate preparation, or its equivalent, are called Schools. The three of these which are organized and administered in the interest of persons preparing for the learned professions are called The Professional Schools. The School of A11 Sciences.-This department is for gradu- ate students only. Since 1875 its regular members enjoy the privi- lege of free tuition in the National University at Athens, and in the Royal University at Rome. . Fundamental Principles. -The eleventh Annual Report, is- sued January, 1885, presents at some length a number of the more important of the ideas, or principles, which underlie the entire plan, and which have determined the actual organic form of the institution.

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THE ORGANIZATION OF TI-IE UNIVERSITY. T Bos'roN UNIVERSITY was chartered by the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts in the year of our Lord 1869. The three gentlemen named in the Charter as the original corporators were Isaac Rich, Esquire, the Honorable Lee Claiiin. and the Honorable Jacob Sleeper, all of whom had held responsible positions in the government of one or more of the older New-England colleges, and the last of whom had served as a State-appointed Overseer of Harvard University for a period of twelve years. The Governor of the Commonwealth who oflicially approved and signed the act of incorporation was a son of the second of the original corporators. The Corporation. -Under the provisions of the Charter, the power of receiving, holding, and administering funds, establishing departments of instruction, appointing ofiicers of instruction and gov- ernment, providing suitable buildings and appliances, conferring degrees, and, in general, the power of directing the administration, vests in the Corporation, whose legal title is The Trustees of Boston University. The body consists of the President of the University ea:-ojicio, and five classes of Trustees elected from year to year for the term of five years. The whole number must not be less than ten nor more than thirty. In the year 1883 the Corporation was granted a Charter by the Legislature of the State of New York, the first section of which is as follows: H The Trustees of the Boston University, a corporation organ- ized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Massachusetts, are hereby authorized and empowered to take and hold lands in this State, by devise, or under the provisions of any will, in the same manner and under the same limitations applicablefto benevolent and scientific corporations organized under the laws of this State. The University Council. - Under the provisions of the stat- utes of organization, the President of the University, the Registrar, and the Deans of the several departments, constitute the University Council. To this body belongs, among other duties, that of secur- ing an harmonious adjustment of all inter-departmental questions of administration. '

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FOUNDERS OF THE UNIVERSITY. ISAAC RICII. LEE CLAFLIN. JACOB SLEEPER. THE CORPORATION. EX-Gov. VVILLIAM CLAFLIN, LL.D. . IION. JACOB SLEEPER . . BRADFORD K. PEIRCE,S.T.D.: . . . RICHARD VV. HUSTED, ESQ. . Pxmslnmxr. VICE-PRESIDENT . SECRETARY. T1mAsU1mn. WILLIAM F. WARREN, S.T.D., lllember ca:-ojicio. Term expires 1887. Mus. AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY. HON. LIVERUS HULL. GEO. M. STEELE,IS.T.D., LL.D. JOSEPH B. THOMAS, ESQ. JOHN II. TWOMBLY, S.T.D. Term expires 1889. WILLIAM R. CLARK, S.T.D. EDWIN H.. JOHNSON, ESQ. JOHN KENDRICK, ESQ. CIIARLES W. PIERCE, ESQ. Term expires 1888. HON. EDWARD HJ DUNN. RICHARD W. HUSTED, ESQ. PLINY NICKERSON, ESQ. Term expires 1890. . IION. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, LL.D. BP. R. S. FOSTER, S.T.D., LL.D. WILLIAM o. Guovmn, ESQ. WILLARD T. PERRIN, s.'1'.B. HON. JACOB SLEEPER. I'ION. ALDEN Term empires 1801. HON. JOSEPH H. CIIADWICK. MRS. MARY B. CLAFLIN. HON. I-I. O. HOUGHTON, A.M. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE, S.T.D. DANIEL STEELE, S.T.D. CHARLES STEELE, A.M., LLB. SPEARE.