Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters - Sivad Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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X E I ,fb - ' 'N A To - N , ' J 1 F J F' .fu .4 E it I Q ' --' . Y ', i:Lm 1 1? 65 W ' ' We all remember how eagerly we have returned to the College following each summer vacation, looking forward to the changes which have taken place in the physical plant. The above drawing shows the building as it appeared in 1919, just after it had been acquired and made ready for the first entering class. ' i ' . . K XX 'xxx ' L: E5- ' N7 - f-1'-x, j V lf. UMM ,WNY - .xl v Q' g' Q t ' ' ' K 'kpyj' X -,X-in-x lvx 5 - 5.1 i -. ,N - 'Q fa .. E'--11:3 , . I37 1-'7 ' , li ., . FE :- :E ' is-as. girlie.: ,A., H. . .. 9 me Ear- KP 1+ ., -fp fffw g-3::::g MET' fi iff . W' S 'L ' as ' HQ fini a -F 7 A Fist' .- --...---N Y D T The year 1920 saw the erection of a new college building, adjoining the original srtruciture. This building pero-vided many additional cl-assvrzoolms as welll as the audi- torium, the caferteria, anid -the gymnasium. Tihe above drawing showls fthe co-l-lege plant as it appeared in 1920. ' I N - 1 ... ,, f fs UN o 'rf Twclnty-one

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. ' l l I I N I A I I that the University .Was to plan eventually to place all of its departments on Q f U V J2f '1I Bs-A pp gg! I .. appointed by the Dean to make a careful study of the educational pOl1C16S of the college, With a vieW to interpreting and defining these policies. The faculty committee pointed out that the curriculum of the College of Prac- tical Arts and Letters differed from that of any school or college ofthe University, in that ll?-I'610I'9S61'1lJ9d the actual duplication of courses given in the other University departments. In other Words, While some duplica- tion might be found in other departments of the Unlivers-ity, at the Col- lege of Practical Arts an-d Letters the entire curri-culum represented duplication In order thoroughly to clarify the statement of 2,-11'I1.S Which had been in the mind of the Dean since the establishment of the. college- and in the minds of the professors as they began to study the situation- the faculty committee said it Was evident that all of the individual courses guven at P A L could be continued by Boston University even if the Col- lege of Practical Arts and Letters, as such, should go out of existence. T-his could be done simply by scheduling .students for classes in the Departments of Liberal Ants, an-d Business Adlminilstnation, and Educa- tion But it stated that if We Were to consider that there Were educational advantages other than mere class instruction to be found in a compara- tively small separate college for Women, it must be admitted that the complete College of Practical-Arts-an-d-Letters-Training, even in its stage of development at that time, could not be provided in any combination of classroom subgects arranged by the other departments of Boston Univer- sity In other Words the faculty declared that the distinctive and essential feature of the college policy represented something more than a mere combination of courses It endorsed ent.hu.siastically the educational pro- grnam Which had been advocated and developed in the Wo2mian's collegeg and it pointed With pride to the fact that the Work of the students had been recognized favorably by other New England colleges. I asked Dean Davis if he Would have suggested the establishment of the College of Practical Arts and Letters, in 1919, if he had known then a relatively small single tract of land. He said that he Would not have done so if he had thought that the college Would be included in the centralized group and he made clear the incongruity of establishing a college With a separate cloistered environment, and With distinctive Woman's-college traditions Within the precincts of a huge co-educational center, situated on a feW acres of land and providing instruction for thousands of men and Women students At the same time, he said that When the plans for the centralization of Boston University Were announced not long ago by Presi- dent Marsh he recognized that the original plans for P. A. L., as a depart ment of B U might need to be sacrificed in the interest of th-e greater University development Dean Davis said that these facts should be recorded for historical purposes but declared that for practical purpose-s We should join hands in attempting to find a place for our group in the University center Which the President and Trustees have decided to bring into existence when funds for the project are available. i , 19 . ,. 90 I l 1 l 1 1 T ,I : ll f ff 1 fgijx M ,..,. o

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