Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ofiice and clerical work, and he did all his letter-writing in longhand. He even per- sonally entered all the marks of all the students into the records. During his term a.s President C1904-19115 the University enrollment increased sevenfold. The faculty was correspondingly augmented by the addition of scholarly men and women. The gains of the earlier years were now consolidated, and plans laid for future expansion. President Huntington also successfullyiopposed a movement to shorten the four years of study required for the baccalaureate degree. Under Lemuel Herbert Murlin, who was President from 1911 to 1925, the Uni- versity expanded rapidly. The College of Business Administration, the School of Education, the School of Religious and Social Service Qnow the School of Religious and Social Workj, the College of Secretarial Science fnow the College of Practical Arts and Lettersj, and the Summer Session were inaugurated under his administra- tion. President Murlin enlarged the University in every possible way, and the en- rollment soared over the ten-thousand mark. The educational program of the Uni- versity made its influence felt throughout New England. In making the community conscious of the University as an iigg s its progress in the social, religious, . . sNi,....sMM'rvrrMs .SN . . - - business, and rofesslonal e Sld N . ,ed a ohc f which has since P . X, .... P 5 dominated the 8,Ct1V1lI,gSi.Eg niQQshySHQ3eiQQitl143Eaused President Murlin . . SAX G, .,.. .t.... x. wsXiN . to resign, and pro tempore until the appolntpiept o ocjgjx . it 9 X as as ,.,...r.,.... fa:rf::::: .,... r as as N 2, . . Under his he VV1ll1am E. . s . . n'ri to . . Nickerson Reeiigeasioljg .Sargeikt Phggsigalflilgliieation and the ' f N Y S X a'i S ,ills titiX t ' ' a P ' Sargent Collx Community Q . ......,,,.,. , f -.-,, . as is a rc i T77 - Center, the ' lylgingrlal, the Larz . c'rc'r f X i 3 - f X 't sph -Xfwtf -.35 , X 5 E . ' Anderson lNIe E 11al X xtg,ae,sQ P1 esldent N R Q X I , New -eggs : S4:Qssm..Y 2 kia 5 FQ ' 1 lllarsh has do Xxiwclrxx coo1 ,t1ae5Scatt5g35Sf1ts19epa1'trrFentssofpthe University, . Y X s ' 'i fi-it .'.rl . welding them i s a lg x hglovelxiitiiiilituerlgtittgygfi tlletkiiiwfaitiiad anfeiionomlc depres- s ' ws U sion, and withou X e the University . . . is .eer through with balan is . X X S S Q S .,,..r .,.. 1 '- . X, ,S Q ,..,,,.,.,.,X, Sm The history of Bosto growing pains, with U N wswii, ,,,, s N s ,,,.. . . . . the Departments out.grow1ng The solution of this crowding is the erection of new buildings on the Charles River Campus, a task on which the administration is hard at work. VVhenever students become impatient at the pro- gress of the University toward an all-University campus let them consider the great strides made during the past seventy years, with constant improvement in buildings, equipment, resources, increasing enrollment, and ever greater service to society and to the world at large. l13l

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TTILLIAM FAIRFIELD xvARREN 1 L n11,1.i,nl IQDXYARDS 1-1t'NT1Nc:Tox xYILLIAM ANDERSON XI UFS Se3E'fE'ti27 Eli EE 512. EMQEENSS HARTERED on llay 26, 1869, Boston University did not really begin to function as a University until 1871, with theccadoption of the Boston Theological Semi- nary. From a small unit consisting ofthe TheologicalSchool and a Female Medical School, Boston Pniversity has grown into the largest university in New England. It has not forgotten the high aims of its founders to promote virtue, piety, and learning in the liberal artsand sciencesglts doors have always been open to men and women alike, and nofdiscriininationremade because of the individual's religious views. That it has lieengilabletto do thispis due to the work of its five Presidents- XYarren, HuntingtonipMurlinQ Anderson!anidiliarsli. 'gi S Xvillilllll Fairfield the served from 1869 unt.il 1903, and was in an academic sense the founder of the University, for he was a pioneer in edu- cation, an organizer and culturist who inculcated those principles of liberal and pro- gressive education still so evident i11 Boston University today. The impression of his powerful personality and-character may be seen in the attitude of the administra- tion regarding its responsibilities to tl1e'studentp,a.11d the community. During his years in office the Departments of Law and 1NIedicine were added. The Graduate School was created under the title of the School of all Sciences to allow the oppor- tunity for further study to graduates of the newly organized College of Liberal Arts. There was also a. College of Oratory which ha.s since been abolished. President Wiilliain Edwards Huntington came to Boston University in 1891 and served as Professor of History and Ethics. As Dean he had no secretaries to do the gl .ak DANIEL I -xsu lNIxRsH l 121 G ..:z3,- fi y -If . W '14, - Aff' NL xl-53-, sv QQ -Ar -ti t V as H lj A 1. U ' if ,: 'gt 4 .w.1g'g,j p X x .silt vli,1-ly LL. 4 f, ,fa -ax I 9 , li Diff., jf . .1 my it -H 1 J 1 K if .,,g, lx-el. -.. -ks, fi xx wld-P:i:

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B0 , A ,f rx n' 1 If I A if Q fi-15 't ,I 9 I 0 ES? J ff! Foundations for proposed build- ings will probably be similar to those of the College of Business Administration - belled out eon- crete caissons resting on firm sand and gravel at a soil pressure of four tons to the square foot. n 0 lVl1en all proposed buildings are completed students can get lost in three miles of corridors, rest weary bones in four hundred classrooms and ofhees. Four thousand tons of steel and fifteen thousand tons of cement will en- compass a volume of almost seventeen million cubic feet. 55 -'QRN The campus will facilities on a limited terra.in. Solution of the space problem will be more economical than tl1e vert.ieal campus of PlttSblll'gl1,S Cathedral of Learning, and more fortunate than Harvard and Yale, which are, in their pres- ent state, makeshift adaptations to a condition wl1icl1 Boston Uni- versity has faced from the start. -CRAM and FERGUSON .fllrchfitecis