Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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4 BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. world over means breadth and thoroughness and catholicity of scholarly training, -the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thus far in this University, as for years in all the most reputable American colleges, thedegrce of Bachelor of Arts has signilied that its bearer had been well instructed in all essential mathematical, physical, and philosophical sciences, and also that he had acquired a sutllcient mastery of two ancient languages, Greek and Latin, and of at least two modern languages. French and German, to equip him for a. personal understanding of the civilization he inherits, and to qualify him to con- tribute ln some worthy manner to its further development and diffusion. Doubtless all this will be changed as soon as it is once completely demonstrated that mankind is only an accidentally varied and improved branch of the animal kingdom, whose antiquity has no particular signili- cance, and whose duty and destiny are questions of less importance than the problem of running a steam-engine with the least outlay of plthecoid cerebration, and with the least destruction of pithecold organisms. In response to inquiries as to the procurabllity of the papers which have appeared in the Uuivlcnsrrv Yann Book on the Cosmology of Homer and of the Ancients, it is proper to state that our supply is ex- hausted, but that The True Key can be ordered of Messrs. Ginn da Heath of this city, who publish an illustrated edition for schoolsg while the other papers, with the exception of the one printed in the present volume, can be found in the just-issued work, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, London, Sampson Low 85 Co.: Boston and New York, Houghton, Milllin, dz Co. Three other related discussions may be found in the same volume,-one on Honier's Abode of the Gods, one on his Cosmical Water-system, and one on his view of the Nocturnal Movement of the Sun. It is hoped that scholars will here tind proof that the study of Greek antiquity and Greek literature has still an indispensable value in all modern humanistic edu- catlon claiming to be based upon a correct view of human nature and human history. . By a unanimous vote, at their last annual meeting, the trustees of Dickinson College, the second oldest college in Pennsylvania, opened the privileges of the institution to women upon the same terms as to men. This action is the more historic and significant from the fact that this is the last of the forty-five colleges and universities of ,the oldest nationally organized Church in the United States, to plant itself upon the plat- form of the joint education of the sexes. Since the event here noticed, the cause of dis-joint education has sutfered an even more memorable defeat in Adelbert College, Cleveland, O.

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1 ' . , . Q.Ji'f7 i LJ 5 7+ pf. BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. 1 . SERIES II. BOSTON, MARCH, 1885. VOL. XII. Colleges, universities, and other institutions receiving this volume ofthe YEAR Boon, are respecvully requested to acknowledge the some by forwarding to its Editors ct copy QI' each new Catalogue, Annual Report, or similar publication. All correspondence with reference to admission to any College or ,School of this University should be addressed to the appropriate Dean. ON the third day of June, 1884, in accordance with the notice given in the last issue of the YEAR Boolc, the University Convocation was formally organized. At the ensuing annual meeting of the Corporation in January, it was duly admitted to participation in the government of the University, according to the provisions of the statutes. The next annual meeting of the Convocation will beheld in Jacob Sleeper Hall, on Convocation Day, Tuesday, June 2, at one o'clock in the afternoon. A few weeks ago, The Century Magazine completed the publica- tion of an interesting series of illustrated articles entitled On the Track of Ulysses. In them the author, Mr. W. J. Stillman of New York, gives the results obtained by observation and local studies in con- nection witha recent visit to some of the more important of the points on the Mediterranean coasts traditionally associated with the story of the Odyssey. His conjectural map of the hcro's voyage may be seen on page 562 lot' the volume for 188435 but he confesses, that, for his location of the all-decisive Ogygia, he has U no evidence. The source and the solu- tion of this author's perplexitles, as of the perplexlties of so many others before him, are made apparent in the paper on H Homer's Abode of the Living, in the present volume. Hitherto it has been the ,well-understood purpose and work of all classical colleges, to train up MIEN, intelligent leaders and guides and helpers of mankind, -men of suflicient breadth of thought and taste and acquisition to be capable of appreciating and helping forward all good learning and all good living. Now, however, we have among us a nascent party whose spokesmen seem intent on persuading the col- leges to subordinate the Man to his work. Apparently they are deter- mined to inaugurate a system which, in precise proportion to its success, is certain to turn out mere calculists, or chemists, or physicists, or physi- ologists,'0r psychologists, or publicists, or Germanists, or Gallicists, or Latinists, with here and there perhaps an equally specialized Hellcnist, but with never a whole rounded man among them all. And, strange to say, a chief contention appears to be that these products of a narrow and special training shall have, at the end, not a degree honestly and truthfully describing their attainments, but the one only title which the

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CONTENTS. PAGE EDITORIAL NOTES . . 3. 4 CONTENTS .... 5 THE UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY . . . 6 TIIE ORGANIZATION on' TIIE UNIVERSITY . 7 TIIE FOUNDERS AND CORPORATION . 0 THE STANDING COMMITTEES . . - 10 TIIE OFFICIAL VISITORS . - 11 TIIE UNIVIBIISITY COUNCII ...... . 12 TIIE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND CTIIER OFFICERS . 13 TI-IE VOYAGBS OF ODYSSEUS. . . 19 NEW FOUNDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . 31 TIIE CONVOCATION.-ADMISSIONS T0 DEGREES, ETC., IN 1894 . 33 I. THE COLLEGES. TIIE CCLLEGE CE LIBERAL ARTS . . . . 41 TIIE COLLEGE OF IIIUBIC . . . 59 THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE N. . . 65 II. TI-IE PROFESSIONAL SCIIOOLS. , THE ScIIooI. on' TIIEOLOGY . . . . . . . 77 TIIE SCIIooL OF LAW . . 02 '.l'nE SCHOOL or MEDICINE . . . . . . . . 109 III. TI-IE SCHOOL OF ALL SCIENCES. FACULTY. - DESIGN. - INSTRUCTION . . . . . . 138 THE UNIVEIQSITY on' ATHENS . . . 143 TIIE UNIVERSITY OF ROME . . 143 DEGREES, ETC. . . . . 144 SUMMARY 011' STUDENTS . . 149 GENERAL INDEX . . 151