Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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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.

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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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THE ORGANIZATION OF Tl-IE UNIVERSITY. -.- --...9...,-........ 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 Clafiin, 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 oftwelve years. The Governor of the Commonwealth who officially 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 officers 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 U The Trustees of Boston University. The body consists of the President of the University ez-officio, 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: U 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 applicable to 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.