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

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J EVENTS OF YEAR E the numbers in all these golden years who have gone out to leaven the community, and the country, We can appreciate the work of this particular source of light and leading. Our own cheerful and optimistic leader whom we have come to know as a kindly and benevolent man, President 'Lemuel H. Murlin, was introduced to the gathering by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, chairman of the assembly, who pre- sented him as The hero of twelve years' strenuous and amazingly successful ad- ministration, President Lemuel I-I. Murlin, present head of the university. In his address, President Marlin reviewed the ideals with which he had assumed the duties of the presidential chair, and the ideals of the university. He pointed out that seventy-five per cent of the students have lived at home among the usual social and business environments of everyday life and that for them college-bredi' is not four years of loafing but four years of earnest life of application in a world of educational activity. He asserted that being a university in a city, Boston University could not perform its service without an international outlook, since the city has international business and social connections, and remarked that this international point of view has done much for the general welfare of the university. The past of Boston University is secure in a record of worthy service, he said. '6She faces the future with the conviction that a great opportunity is hers. The old educational ideals shall be retained and brought to the service of the new day. Democracy shall here be nourished in the spirit of the finest Boman ideal, seeking to train our people in the highest duties of unseliish citizenship. It is our well informed hope that it can be said of Boston University at the end of another :fifty years, that we of the present time built wisely upon this well constructed found ationg that friends have gathered about us counting it a privilege l.o see that material needs were generously provided for our high spiritual taskg above all, that we proved the reality and worth of our work by the service we ren- dered the city and the Commonwealth. President Murlinis address was followed by an oration by John Huston Finley, who spoke on the role played by the university as an integral part of the city. The supreme problemf' he pointed out, is to make all city centers not only the mighty exchanges of communication, but the heights from which men may better communicate with their Cod, a place where His 'tabernacle may be with man more conveniently. At the evening convocation, which was also held in Symphony Hall, John L. Bates, president of the Board of Trustees, and former governor of the Common- wealth, was the presiding ollicer. ,lile introduced. the distinguished guests and speakers, who included Governor Channing lilf. Cox, and the Honorable Justice William Benwick Biddell, Chief Justice ofthe Supreme Court of Ontario, Canada, who spoke on 'The University in 'Modern Life. Justice Biddell presented a picturesque appearance in the flowing red and white robes distinctive of his high honorary degrees, and wearing the quaint Oxford cap, Tam-O'Shanter shape, contrasting greatly with those worn by the other delegates on the platform. 259

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I SYLLABUS 1925 Wim . ' .'4 - 4 -'i f .'- - 5-' Q Boston University's Fiftieth Anniversary A solemn dignity, all the more impressive because of its simplicity, marked the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of this our University, which has always been a leader in educa'tional reforms and which has always eagerly embraced the newer theories of education. Famous educators, men of letters, of science, and captains of industry, gathered 'together to pay tribute to the young giant of education which in the short fifty years of' its life has grown from an institution of a few hundred students into a university ministering to the educational needs of nearly 11,000 men and women of all races and creeds. The celebration of this fiftieth milestone was held during the week of October 26. More than 150 delegates from universities and colleges throughout this country and Canada a'ttended the various functions which formed part of the program for the general observance of the anniversary. The opening exercise was a brilliant reception at the Copley-Plaza, held Thursday evening, October 25. lt was attended by leaders in the educational, judicial, poli'tical, and business life of' the Common- wealth. The morning assembly held Friday, October 26, marked the official opening of the program when Boston University for the second time in its history broke established preceden't and awarded several honorary degrees. This assembly was marked by a gathering of probably the most prominent as well as eminent educators of the country, including the dean of' all educators, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president- emeritus of' llfarvard, and his collaborator in the field of' science and education, Dr. William Fairfield Warren, president-emeritus of' Boston University. One of the most imposing spectacles of the morning assembly was the academic processional which was led by Chief' Marshal Lyman C. Newell, general chairman in charge of the celebration, and which included in its line of march beside the many distinguished guests, practically the entire faculty of' the university all in cap and gown, and many of' them wearing the multi-colored scarfs significant of high honorary degrees. The many women included in the line of' march brought to mind the fact that Boston University was one of the first educational institutions of collegiate grade to throw open its doors to women on an equal footing with men. The welcoming address at this exclusive gathering of' 'thinkers and leaders was delivered b'y President A. Lawrence Lowell of llarvard, who paid a glowing 'tribute to Boston University and the work it is accomplishing in various fields of' education. lilfe declared that ln the life of' a university, fifty 'years is a short time, yet it may be enough to create an institution which may be a beacon light which will shine in increasing power to guide the footsteps of youth, not only in the present but along the distant future. Mayor Curley, on behalf' of the city which the university has been serving for half' a ccn tury, stated tha't lt is not humanly possible to estimate the full measure of the influence ol' Boston University, but that when we come to understand 258

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IVI I'IIIVIBICRS L1 1, I I SYLLABUS 1925 Junior eek CO1I11I1it'IQeO .5 Ig-an-1 , , .,, gglf.1- ' ,a' I , ff? I I. If A lifzrk Raw: IIURNVICK, SIICIDICI., Form, IIARI'IiI,, GARLAND, PEARODV Alirlfllc Raw: MATIIIAH, Mc'Cul.LOuc:II, IJAVIS, SULLIVAN, IIARSTON, 'l'llOMe-:ON, IFIQIXI' lfrrml Row: KOICIILER, IIANNON, CUXVLICY, YVIIIEEIJER, PIITNAM, I'IlI.I., SINCER Sillimg: IIARRIG'l I', SIIIEICIIAN OFIFICICPIS ALVAII Ii. WlIl'II41I.IiIl Clzrufrnzarz, IIXENE IVI. COWLEY, Sul:-Chairman 9 Y I WII.IIIAM II. PUTNAM, ISecrelary C. B. A. ALVAII B. WHEELER I. ARTHUR SIEGAL THOMAS N. 'HILL IIOBERT M. RICHMOND WILLIAM F. PUTNAM GRACE A. SULLIVAN C. S. s. OLIVE I. IIYNCII LAW SCHOOL JOHN J. SIIEICHAN ALBERT G. ISFIRQUIST ISIDOIK IC. SINGER RAYMOND F. BARRETT RICHARD Ii. BLAKE EVENING DIVISION CARLETON II.. KOEIIIJEIX C. I.. A. IRENE IVI. COWLEY IVIILDRED F ELT IIOMONA I. DAVIS CHARLES IC. FOCC IIIIILIP L. GARLAND ISIDORE R. IIIARPEL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION J'EssIE THOMSON .FRANCES IVI. CCULLOUGIHI ICDITII BERNTSON MARGARET IC. IVIATHIAS IIOBEHT W. PEABODY GRACE B. IIOWLAND OLIVE IC. CARTLAND 260