Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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n 1 4 BOSTON UNlVh'A'SlTl' l E.fllt' BOOK. principle. Hence the abbreviations of some of them follow the order of the Latin title, others that of the English, creating much of confusion and even of uncertainty as to the meaning. Which order should be preferred? Evidently such abbreviations as M. D., and LL. D. are popularly so fixed in the Latin order that the attempt to reverse them would be simply idle and grotesqtte. D. M. and D. LL. would convey no meaning to ordinary readers. Over against these there are none in common use, so fixed in the succession of the English words as to be unrecognizable when written in the Latin order. ln the Latin order, therefore, and in that alone, can uniformity and consistency be secured. The rule, therefore, in this University has been and is, to write all these titular abbreviations in accordance with the earliest and only really scholastic usage. Moreover, in view ofthe fact that in Latin abbreviations the plural is indicated by the double letter Col, is preferable to Col!. as an abbreviation for College whenever the word is used in the singular. ' The value of every magnet of man's making resides in its poles. It is to secure and con- trol the force there developed that the whole more or less costly instrument is constructed. Whatever ofthe same force there may be in the other parts, it is considered as absolutely nse- less apart front that manifesting itself at the poles. How strange, then, the prevalent indiffer- ence of mankind to the acquisition of a control and use of the forces centring at the magnetic poles of the great Earth-Magnet on which we reside. Nearly three centuries the scientific world has had knowledge of the existence of these mysterious foci of world-force, and yet no nation is showing any more of interest in the one or the other than in the craters of a dead moon. A wiser generation may one day discover that in her ever-pulsing cosmic ganglion in Boothia Felix America has a possession of greater importance to commerce and industry and the art of living in a godlike lordship over Nature than all the railroads, and Alpine tunnels, and Panama canals our boasted century has produced. It is not too late to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary ofthe discovery of the continent by the establishment of a permanent scientiiic station at the North Magnetic Pole. On invitation ofthe School of Theology, the Ninth Annual Convention of the American Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance was held in this city in October. Nearly Five hundred Christian students, representing many different commnnions and a great variety nf states, were in attendance. The number exceeded that pairticipating in any previous Convention.

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D653 B05 W bf -e... BOSTON U IVERSITY YEAR BOOK. College-.r, 1mz'zw':1'lie.v, nm! olhcr 7ilI.ffl.lllfl't7fl.l' rcfei':u'ug lhix 7f'0fllllIL' ay' Ike YEAR Botui are v'a.yn'ry2z!0f rcyzrusmz la rIc'klI07Ufc'IZl'?? Ike mlm' by jbrawu'1z'- ifqgf lo fix l:'4z'z'!0rx ll mfg' qf mrh new Cflltlhgfllf, .-mmm! Rtywrl, or similar jvublimliun. f All rv1'1't'.yn11l1l'cm'c milk 1'tj2'1'c1zcula rldlllflfftvl la any College or School 0 Mis Ullffftllfffl' shaulfz' be 1za?z'n'.s.rca' la the npprrytrizzlc Dean. Over six thousand volumes have been added to the libraries of the University during the current year. Professor Rhys of Oxford, a scholar unsurpassed in his field, has lately announced his con- clusion that Aryan mythology, comparatively studied, necessitates the conclusion that the Cradle ofthe Aryan Nations was within the Arctic Circle. To readers of the formerissnes of the Boston University Year Book, such an announcement will occasion no surprise. In the present issue will be found a brief study of The Gates of Sunrise in Babylonian and Egyp- tian mythology. The paper is of curious interest in itself considered: but to the anthropolo- gist and ethnologist it has a scientific significance not to be overlooked. The facts go Cir towards proving that at the time when the far off ancestors of the ancient Chaldeans and Egyp- tians first formed their sun-myths, they were living in the high North - in a latitude but just below the charmed line which bounds oil' the mysterious territory of the Midnight Sun. In a land located in the neighborhood of 600 N. the diurnal movements of the sun would be exactly adapted to produce the remarkable myth-imagery preserved to us in the art and literature of ancient Chaldea and Egypt. In such tmantieipated ways is every year aug- menting and reinforcing the evidence of the Arctic origin of man. ln comparing or contrasting the educational systems of different nations, there is always danger of falling into error in consequence of overlooking important ethnological, social, lin- guistic, or other differences. Thus, for example, a French boy can as rapidly and easily learn Latin, as the American boy Anglo-Saxon. To assume that at a given age, or with the same amount of application, the latter should be as fully a master of Latin as the former, is by no means reasonable. The force of a recently published educational paper, in which the French programme of secondary instruction is particularly commended as a model for American high schools and academies, is profoundly tnoditied in thoughtful minds by such considerations as the above. Moreover, in the higher education as in the lower, Americans ought yet do far better than the French have ever done. A.l3. or ll.A.? Cambridge writes the former, Oxford the latter. ln like nmnuer also the abbreviation of the master's degree. Harvard follows Cambridge, and Yale Oxford. Not one ofthe four, however, in indicating the other degrees, consistently carries out its own chosen

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CONTENTS. Em'rmuAr. No'rr-Ls CoN'rEN'rs - - - T1 I E T1 uc TH la Tm: T1 1 as Tm: T1 1 rc UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY - - ORGANIZATION OF Tm: UNIV:-zusm' FOUNDERS AND CORPORATIQN - STANIJING CUMMI'l l'ICl'lS - - OFFICIAL Vxsrruus Uxrvrzusrrv Couwcu, ---- UNIVERSITY SENATE AND OTHER Ol-'FICERS - THE CRY OF THE SOUL THE GATES OF SUNRISE N1-rw FouNDA'r1oNs ----- Tu rc T1 I 11: T1 nc T1-I lc TH E Tm: TH 14: CoNvocA'1'1oN.-Anmlssums 'ro IJ1-zukmcs, 1c'rc., IN 1888 I. COLLEGES. Co1,1,l-:GE OF 1.1141-:RA1. AR'rs - - - CoI.l.1-:GE 01-' Music - - COLLEGE our AGRICUIWURIC - - - II. THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Scuool, uv TH1cur.oux' ---- - - - Scuoor. our LAW - - Scnoox. Ol-' Mrcmcml-1 ---- III. THE SCHOOL OF ALL SCIENCES. FACULTY. - D1-:su:N. -INs'rxUC1'1uN - - - - - T1 I 1-: T1 I I-1 Umwlausrrv 011' ATI-11-:Ns - UN1v1-:RsI1'v ov Rom: - Dnzfakmzs, ETC. - - SUMMARY OF STUDENTS GIQNERAI. INDEX - - PAGE 3,4 5 li T Sb 10 11 12 13 19 30 34 315 41 Gu 72 S3 101 118 143 152 152 153 161 165