Boston University School of Management - Syllabus Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CHRONOLO GY Doings of the Year The last of September saw a horde of young men together with a few scattered girls sweep down on C.B.A., overwhelm its ofiices and corridors, all intent on registering and get- ting out of the hubbub as soon as those blankety blanks could be filled out and O.K.'d by most exacting professors. 'And so, through the next week or two the school was gradually coming into its own, work beginning to show itself in real shape by the necessity of buying what seemed at the time an excessive number of books, and what was worse, an equally great necessity of studying the same. Classes were organized to the point where a chap couldn't cut without being marked absent, and if that fact alone isn't a sign that the college year is really under way, I give up the ghost. The college year, however, is made up of many other activities besides that of trying to learn something, and the first that shaped up was the beginning of the football season. Except for two games at the start of the season, B.U. was at the top end of the score when time was called in all the rest, so the 1921 football season may conclusively show that all's well that ends well, which is a true description of B.U. when they won the last six games in a row. Our next big event was the reception of Marshal Foch at the Arena on November 14, when we held our regular fall university convocation. Boston received a great demonstration of University spirit as eight thousand young men and women marched down Huntington Avenue to the Arena during a severe rain storm for the sake of attending their University's convocation and reception of a famous war general who would appear for only a few moments. It is SOME spirit to turn out in such numbers even on a good night, but when a crowd will support an event at the cost of its own physical discomfort there is a spirit, an amount of loyalty, which revealed by acts cannot be surpassed. , During this evening, Boston University bestowed upon Marshall Foch the first honorary degree it had ever conferred, and the Marshal, not to be outdone, returned the compliment by presenting the Croix de Guerre to Lieutenant Whelton, a Freshman at Law School, for valorous acts during the war. The meeting was replete with enthusiasm, and woe be unto the student who missed one of the most important and interesting events of the year. About the same time the Freshman-Sophomore Field Day was held, the Sophs winning by one point. The latter knew what they were doing when they counted the football game twenty-six points with track, flag rush, and rope pull counting twenty-five points each. The Freshmen won the most satisfactory events by getting the flag and seeing the Sophs get a bath in the Fenway, so they were perfectly satisfied with the results of the day. The Sophs won the track events and football game, and so by the lead of one point they claimed the day was theirs. Accordingly both sides seemed to be somewhat satisfied, and everybody was happy. About twenty-five hundred spectators were on hand and passed a lively afternoon, the most enjoyable part of which was to see the poor Sophs with chattering teeth coming out of the water. The whole affair was a great success, and the Field Day is now an institution at C.B.A. 259

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MMR :wwf SYLLABUS, 1923 F ... The Beanpot Staff 1921-1922 Back row: Nl-IWTON, GRAVES, Hlcss, XVADSWORTII, KOLIIE, BUCK Front row: AKIN, CAPON, KING, XVARD, GARLAND, GROUT, 1'l'I'I'1'liNGII.L ALBER'1' H. WARD, JR. . Eflifm'-in-Clziwf FRANKLIN KING, JR. Bzzsifm-.v Illanagw- C. IC. CJOULD CAPON . . . Tl'Pll.!'lll'l'I' WALI.AClE K. GIQAVES Circulation Alllllllgfl' DON GROUT . . . Exrlmngz' Editor HARfJl.1J A. NEWTON .... flflwz-ti.s-ing MfIll1lgl'l' H. K. r11H0Ml'SON WAl,'I'lill T. WII.SON CARL KOLII E DONALD ARIN El1if0l'ifII Stay? RUSSELL L. NORTON CHAUNCY S. GARLAND E. A. STANCHI E. L. SIIAPIRO fl .V.K'01'illfl' If 11 i I om' ROGER D. WASI-IRURN CIIARLI-:s PE'1 1'ENGII.I. .4.vs0rri11lzr B 1l.vilz1's.v M111z11gr'z'.s' ROBERT VVADSXVORTH ROBERT G, HEss Bu.vIn1'.v.v Staff JOHN ALDEN A. LAWRENCE JAMES LLOYD DIXON 258 ROLAND D. HUSSEY GEORGE S, HUI.SE CI-IARLEs S. BUCK Art Staff GERARD GAFFNEY MII,TON SUNDERLAND JOSEPI-I S. RORINSON HERMAN SCHNOERELEN

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.,, tlfff. SYLLABUS 1923 'f sifr The biggest, most successful project ever attempted at any University was the Fiftieth Anniversary Endowment Drive among the student body, from November 15th through to the 23rd. The campaign was opened by a meeting and luncheon of the committees at Ford Hall to perfect final details for pushing the drive under Way. From then on, B.U. saw a Wonderful display of University spirit when classes in the various colleges would 1'11CClI and unanimously subscribe for such sums as twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars. Large bulle- tins in each department showed the progress of the campaign day by day. The Booster, a mimeographed sheet, was printed daily, giving all sorts of news concerning the drive. One bit of news came to light that surprised even the students, which was the fact that Boston University has increased from fewer than fifteen hundred students ten years ago to ten thou- sand this year, and from an annual expense of less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars to over one million and a half this year. These figures brought to the fore the absolute neces- sity of having every student subscribe, and before the drive had ended the sum of S364,2I7 had been raised. President'Murlin, on learning the final figures, said, This has been perhaps the most remarkable undertaking ever entered upon by a group of students in the history of American colleges. In a seven-day canvass our student body has subscribed an amount to the permanent fund of the University an unsurpassed achievement, it is probably the largest gift ever made by any student-body in the world for any cause. On Thursday, December I, the Pan Adelphic Council held a smoker at Horticultural Hall. Over three hundred fraternity men were present, and as a result the smoke arising from porcelain pipes was so th'ick that the performers on the stage were seen only through clouds of smoke which truly rivaled those noted smoke screens of the navy. Speeches, boxing, music by the inter-fraternity orchestra, fraternity songs and cheers made up the evening's program. Cider and doughnuts were served, the former being obtained with difficulty by Al Theg, who was accosted three times by prohibition officers while bringing it to Boston from a farm at Beverly. President Murlin, judge Anderson and Dr. Allan W. Rowe brought to light the important part the fraternities play in the colleges and in a young manls life, provided those fraternities are based on high ideals. lt is believed that B.U. has fraternities that would be a credit to any college or university in the country, and surely the Pan-Adelphic as a representa- tive of those fraternities has done much for the welfare of B.U. in many different ways. After the middle of December social life at B.U. quieted down with the Christmas holi- days approaching, and the students were apparently endeavoring to save some money for the great blowout on their arrival at their home towns. I When Christmas passed the dreaded, yet never failing exams fnever failing to come, appeared on the horizon. Sober faces were seen throughout the corridors as fellows said to each other What is he going to ask us? and Lord help me, nothing else willi' on passing to their fate. , Then came the in-between-terms vacation, another registration and life began once more. On February 27 the First Annual All-Boston University Ice Carnival was held at the Arena. The students present numbered over two thousand, and many of these entered into the hockey games, relay race, ice stunts and grand march. The last-mentioned had eight hundred students in line, each one having some type of a costume. Clifford Pinkham of C.B.A. Won the first prize, which was a handsome silver loving cup. A hockey game was next held between the College of Liberal Arts and Medical School. The latter won by a 3 to I score, and the spectators enjoyed the exhibition though the skating would not be de- clared as being marvelous. Indian Club Races, Potato-Races and an exhibition of fancy skating by Mrs. Theresa Weld Blanchard and Nathaniel W. Niles followed in close order. V 260