Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CONTENTS. EDITCRIAL NOTES . . CONTENTS ...... TIIE UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY .... TIIE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY . THE FOUNDERS AND CORPORATION . . TIIE STANDING CCMIIITTEES . . TIIE OFFICIAL VISITORS . TIIE UNIVICRSITY COUNCII ........ TIIE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND OTIIER OFFICERS . QUEST OF THE PERFECT RELIGION . THE NEW FOUNDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . TIIE CONVOCATION.-ADMISSIONS T0 DEGREES, ETC., IN ISS6 I. THE COLLEGES. THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS . . . . Tmc COLLEGE OF MUSIC . . . TIIE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE . . . . . II. THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. TIIE ScIIooL OF TIIECLOCY . . . . . . TIIE SCIIooL OF LAW . . TIIE SCIIooL OF :MEDICINE . . . . . . . . . III. THE SCI-IOOL OF ALL SCIENCES. FACULTY.-DESIGN.-INSTRUCTION . . THE UNIVERSITY OF ATIIENS . . . TIIE UNIVERSITY OF ROME . DEGREES, ETC. . . . . SUMMARY OF STUDENTS . GENERAL INDEx . . l a - 1 o PAGE 3, 4 5 6 7 9 10 1'1 12 13 19 35 37 45 64 71 85 102 120 147 155 156 157 165 107

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4 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. modern languages and modern history than to dead languages and ancient history, involves, I think, a verbal fallacy. Only those languages can properly be called dead, in which nothing living has been written. If the classic languages are dead, they yet speak to us, and with a clearer voice than that of any living tongue. I ' Grnlls lngenlum, Grnlls dedlt ore rotundo 1 Musa loqul praeter laudem nulllus avarls.' If their language is dead, yet the literature it enshrines is rammed with life as, perhaps, no other writing, except Shakspeare's, ever was or will be. It is as contemporary with to-day as with the ears it first enraptured, for it appeals not to the man of then or now, but to the entire round of human nature itself. Men are ephemeral or evanescentg but whatever page the authentic soul of man has touched with her immortalizlng finger, no matter how long ago, is still young and fair as it was to the world's gray fathers. Oblivion looks in the face of the Grecian muse, only to forget her purpose. Even for the mastering of our own tongue, there is no expedient so fruitful as translation out of anotherg how much more when that other is a language at once so precise and so flexible as the Greek? Greek literature is also the most fruitful com- ment on our own. Coleridge has told us with what profit he was made to study Shakspeare and Milton, ln conjunction with the Greek drama- tists. It is no sentimental argument for this study that the most justly balanced, the most serene, and the most fecundatlng minds since the revival of learning, have been saturated with Greek literature. We know not whither other studies will lead un, especially if dissociated from this: we do not know to what summits, far above our lower region of turmoil, this has led, and what the many-sided outlook thence. Will such studies make anachronisms of us? Unfit us for the duties and the business of to-day ? I can recall no writer more truly modern than Montaigne, who was almost more at home in Athens and Rome than in Paris. Yet he was a thrifty manager of his estate, and a most competent mayor of Bordeaux. I remember passing once in London where demo- lltion for a new thoroughfare was going on. Many houses left standing in the rear of those cleared away, bore signs with the inscription, Ancient Lights. This was the protest of their owners against being built out by the new improvements from such glimpse of heaven as their fathers had, without adequate equivalent. I laid the moral to heart. During the current year, in compliance with oft-repeated petitions from eminent and influential citizens, the Trustees of the Clty Hospital of Boston ltave officially decided and announced, that hereafter the operations and instruction of the amphltheatre shall be open to female medical students upon the same terms and conditions as to male. As these advantages are without fee, and as the Hospital is located just across the street from the School of Medicine, the new measure brings an important addition to the facilities of this department.

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THE THE THE THE THE THE THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY. OFFICE or THE PRESIDENT, 12 Somerset Street. OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR, 12 Somerset Street. OFFICE 011' THE TREASURER, 12 Somerset Street. COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS . COLLEGE OF MUSIC .... COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE . SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL 12 SOMERSET STREET. FRANKLIN SQUARE. AMRERST, MAss. THEOLOGY. . . 72 MT. VERNON STREET LAW. . . 10 ASHBURTON PLACE. MEDICINE . . EAST CONCORD STREET. ALL SCIENCES . 12 SOMERSET STREET.