Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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3 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. THE COLLEGE s,--The Statues of the University provide for a group of Colleges With distinct Faculties and administrations. The College of Liberal Arts was 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 University so organized as to presuppose on the part of a student a collegiate prep- aration, or its equivalent, are called Schools. The three of these which are organized and administered in the interests of persons preparing for the learned professions are called the Professional Schools. THE GRADUATE ScHooL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. - This is for gradu- ate students only. Since 1874 its regular members enjoy the privilege of free tuition in the National University at Athens, and in the Royal University at Rome. Graduates of these Universities are entitled to like immunity in Boston University. VISITING COMMITTEES. - These are annually appointed by the Trustees, for the .inspection of the Work of the several Colleges and Schools, and for the making of reports to the Corporation. The chair- man of the Standing Committee of the Corporation on a College or School is in each case ex ojjicfio, chairman of the Visiting Committee of said College or School, and is charged with the duty of calling the meetings, and of presenting to the Trustees the reports of the visitors. HISTORY. - The Annual Report of 1893, entitled The Origin and Progress of Boston University, contains the fullest account yet pub- lished of the planning and early development of the institution. No other fully organized American university has a pedigree leading back so directly and vitally to the ancient University of Oxford as this. See Seventeenth Annual Report, and the Chronological Notes prefixed to the Historical Register of 1891. The Eleventh Annual Report presents at length the more important of the ideas, orxprinciples, Which underlie the plan of the institution, which have determined its organic form. The unity of these ideas, together with their full significance, must be sought in the fundamental aim of the Founders, which Was the effec- tive promotion of genuinely Christian culture.

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THE- ORGANIZATICN OF THE' UNIVERSITY. BOSTON UNIVERSITY was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts 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 Claflin, 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 cor- porators. THE CORPORATION. -The power to hold and administer funds, establish departments of instruction, appoint ofhcers, and, in general, to direct the administration, vests in the Corporation, whose legal title is The Trustees of Boston University. The body consists of the President of the University, ex ojjicfio, and Iive classes of Trustees, elected from year to year for the term of ive years. 'By a new act of the Legislature,'approved March 6, 1890, the Trustees were given power to receive and hold any amount of property, real or personal. . . . In 1883 the ,Legislature of the State of New York granted a char- ter, by the terms of which the Trustees of Boston University are 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. - The President of the University and the Deans of the several departments constitute the University Coun- cil. To it belongs, among other duties, that of securing a harmonious adjustment of all interdepartmental questions of administration. THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. -- The members of the University Coun- cil, 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 Univer- sity. 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. ' 7

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FOUNDERS OE TI-IE UNIVERSITY. ISAAC RICH. LEE CLAFLIN. JACOB SLEEPER. ALDEN SPEARE AND EDWARD H. DUNN, ASSOCIATE FOUNDERS. THE CORPORATION. HON.JOHN L. BATES, A.B.,LL.D. .. ..... PRESIDENT. . SILAS PEIRCE, ESQ. ...... . ......- ..- . .VICE-PRESIDENT. WILLARD T. PERRIN, S.T.B., PH.D. .... . . .SECRETARY. RICHARD W. HUSTED, ESQ. .... . ............ TREASURER. WILLIAM E. HUNTINGTON, PH.D., LL.D., Member ex ojjicio. Terrn Expires 1 9 10. BISHOP DANIEL AYRES GOOD- SELL, LL.D. MRS. ISABEL P. CUSHMAN. CHARLES LEEDS, M.D. REV. JOHN W. LINDSAY, LL.D. REV. WILLARD T-. PERRIN, S.T.B., PH.D. REV. WILLIAM I. WARD, S.T.D. DANIEL G. WING, ESQ. Terrn. Expires 1912. BISHOP JOHN W. HAMILTON, LL.D. MISS ALICE' STONE BLACK- WELL, ' A. B. CHARLES T. GALLAGHER, A.M., LL.B. H. CLIFFORD GALLAGHER, ESQ. ' HENRY C. GRATON, ESQ. I Term Expires 19 11 . AUSTIN B. FLETCHER, A.M., LL.D. ' WALTER G. GARRITT, ESQ. REV. W. I. HAVEN, S.T.D. MISS ELIZABETH C. NORTHUP A.B. ROSWELL R. ROBINSON, ESQ. REV. DANIEL STEELE, S.T.D. OSMON C. WAY, M.D. Term Expires 19 1 3. P EDWARD T. BURROWES, ESQ. WILBERT F. GILMAN, A.B. ALBERT C. HOUGHTON, ESQ REV. JOEL M. LEONARD, S.T.D BISHOP W. F. MALLALIEU, LL.D EDWARD RAY SPEARE, PH.B REV. CHARLES PARKHURST, S.T.D. SILAS PEIRCE, ESQ. Term Expires 1914. I HON. JOHN L. BATES, A.B., LL.D. REV. DILLON BRONSON, S.T.D. REV. GEORGE S. BUTTERS, S.T.D. HORACE A. MOSES, ESQ. IWILLIAM W. POTTER, ESQ. REV. LAURESS J. BIRNEY, S.T.B. HON. ALONZO R. WEED, LL.B. 9