Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. EDITED BY THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. VOL. XIV. B O S T O N: UNIVERSITY OFFICES, 12 SOMERSET STREET. iprfntzh bg Banu Wang Gtumpang. - 1887. ' Pi by ail,J6 t

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7 ra i, H 5 7+ yi BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR 120011. SERIES II. BOSTON, MARCH, 1887. Von. XIV. Colleges, universities, and olher 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. A NEW feature of the year in the College of Liberal Arts, was the academic address delivered on the Opening Day, by Dean Huntington, on The Learning that is Liberal. It was printed in The University Beacon for December. On the 10th of November the commodious new hall of the School of Theology was dedicated. Bishop John F. Hurst delivered the dedicatory discou1'se, taking as his theme, The Theology of the Twentieth Cen- tury. More than a hundred students were at once enrolled, thus prov- ing that the enlarged accommodations were provided none too soon. The entering class was, with a single exception, the largest ever received in the school. ' Last November, at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the oldest of the American colleges, the orator of the day, the Hon. James Russell Lowell, made excellent reply to those who would fain destroy the fixed significance of the academic degrees in arts, and substitute for the traditional classical training, a lawless eclecticism, or a narrowing and deforming specialism. He said, I had rather the col- lege should turn out one of Aristotle's four-square men, capable of hold- ing his own in whatever Held he may be cast, than a score of lop-sided ones, developed abnormally in one direction. g . . . I am familiar with the arguments for making the, study of Greek, especially, a matter of choice or chance. I admit their plausibility and the honesty of those who urge them. I should be willing, also, toadmlt that the study of the ancient languages, without the hope or the prospect of going on to what they contain, would be useful only as a form of intellectual gymnastics. Even so, they would be as serviceable as the higher mathematics to most of ,us. But I think that a wise teacher should adapt his tasks to the highest, and not the lowest, capacities of the taught. For those lower, also, they would not be wholly without profit. When there is a tedious sermon, says George Herbert, X ' God takes n text, and tenchoth pntlonce,' not the least pregnant of lessons. One of the arguments against the compulsory study of Greek, namely, that it is wiser to give our time to