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ACADEMICS Boston College strives to maintain an atmosphere of high academic excellence. The achievements of the faculty and students are numerous as well as diverse. Man’s potential for education is boundless and unrestricted by the movement of time. Knowledge spans a lifetime but one may never dismiss those educators who have managed to supply our sometimes cluttered minds with ideas for the present and inspiration for the future. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” Margaret Fuller
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Boston College: Isn’t in Boston, For many years the phrase “Boston College; not a college, not in Boston”, has been used to introduce BC to prospective undergraduates, newcomers and visitors. Like any catchword, it is designed to merely whet one’s appetite, to elicit curiosity and interest. Thus, it is not surprising that the undergraduate admissions office was responsible for its initial introduction in the early 1970’s. From 1973-1976, “Boston College . . . Isn’t in Boston, Isn’t a College” adorned the cover of the pre-bulletin admissions pamphlet. The phrase was catchy and performed the purpose that it was intended to perform, to stick in a high school student’s mind and get them curious about the contents of the pamphlet and also Boston College. Dean of Admissions, Records and Financial Aid, Jack Maguire explained that the phrase had been in use among the admissions staff for quite some time. Maguire, back then Director of A dmissions, along with Reid Oslin, an Associate Director of Admissions at the time, worked with the other admissions staff to put the slogan down in print as the first pre-bulletin pamphlets. “I used to use this as an opening line when addressing high school students who were interested in attending BC,” notes Oslin, “We had decided to do a small brochure as an initial mailing so we put our heads together and decided to use this phrase.” Oslin left the admissions office in 1974 to become Director of Sports Publicity but the slogan has continued on through various derivations. And while it is no longer used in the admissions brochures, admissions directors still use it on visits to high schools. Not long after its initial widespread distribution, the slogan began cropping up in other publications, from within BC and from some outside sources. One of these outside sources still uses a derivation of the phrase in a description of the school. The New York Times publishes the Insiders Guide to Colleges and the description in the 1981 edition begins: “Despite its name, Boston College is not in Boston, nor is it a college. Though bordering on the city of Boston, BC is actually located in the plushy, affluent suburb of Chestnut Hill (which is itself a part of Newton). A full fledged university, BC is comprised of undergraduate schools of arts and sciences, management, nursing and education, a broad graduate program, and a law school.” Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., University President, employed the phrase “Boston College . . . not a college, not in Boston” in some of his first addresses to freshman classes, including the Class of 1982. He explains, “As the words suggest, this is to indicate that there is not just a college here but a collection of colleges with all of the implications that involves; a level of research capability, of teaching capability, a range of academic and social offerings that you wouldn’t expect at a normal college.” Since its founding in South Boston in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, the University has not stopped growing. From the moment in 1913 when President Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., moved the campus to its present location at Chestnut Hill (thus laying the groundwork for “not in Boston”) to the moment in 1981 when groundbreaking took place for a new research library, the University has not stopped expanding its committment under motto “Ever to Excel”. With the close of the academic year, Father Monan will complete his tenth year as University President. In this period the school has seen a rate of growth unparalleled with any previous decade. “There have been a number of significant advances. In terms of physical growth, acquisition of Newton College in 1974 certainly stands out.” Father Monan came to Boston College in 1972 at the height of student unrest, on and off campus, and with a financial picture that was bleak. Since his taking on the presidency, the University has achieved a much more level and successful financial base, partly because of the growth but also partly due to the building of an administrative team that is “competent, dedicated, open, and cooperative, in relating the intellectual, religious and cultural ideals of the University community to the diversity of the student population.” As for future growth, Father Monan remarked that “the size of student body will be capped at its present levels. This is being done for two reasons: Our present facilities are about 100 percent utilized; and the decline in student populations nationally.” Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., University President. 22
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