Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY. OFFICE ov THE PRESIDENT, 12 Somerset Street. OFFICE or TIIE REGISTBAII, 12 Somerset Street. OFFICE or THE TREASURER, 12 Somerset Street. ' THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS . . THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC . THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY . THE SCHOOL OF LAW . . THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. . THE SCHOOL OF ALL SCIENCES 12 SOMERSET STREET. FRANKLIN SQUARE. ' AMIIERST, MASS. 36 BROMFIELD STREET 10 ASIIBURTON PLACE. EAST CONCORD STREET 12'SoMEBsET STREET.

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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

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THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. Bos'r0N UNIVERSITY was chartered by the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts 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 officially approved and signed the act of incorporation was a son of the second of the original corporators. The C0rp0rati0n.- Under the provisions of the Charter, the power of receiving, holding, and a.dministering funds, establishing departments of instruction, appointing officers of instruction and gov- ernment, providing suitable buildings and appliances, conferring degrees, and, in general, the power of directing the administration, vests in the Corporation, whose legal title is H The Trustees of Boston University. The body consists of the President of the University ex-ojicio, and five classes of Trustees elected from year to year for the term of five years. The whole number must not be less than ten nor more than thirty. In the year 1883, the Corporation was granted a Charter by the Legislature of the State of New York, the first section of which is as follows : The Trustees of the Boston Univerxily, a corporation organ- ized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Massachusetts, are hereby 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. -Under the provisions of the stat- ntes of organization, the President of the University, the Registrar, and the Deans of the several departments, constitute the University Council. To this body belongs, among other duties, that of secur- ing an harmonious adjustment of all inter-departmental questions of administration.