BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, Mass., incorporated in 1869, was founded by Isaac Rich, Lee Claffin, and Jacob Sleeper. Its president since its foundation is William F. Warren, S.T.D., LL.D. The chief organs of its administration are: 1, the university corporation; 2, the university counci113, the university senate; 4. the university convo cation; 5, the faculties of the colleges; and 6, the faculties of the schools. The first con sists of the president of the university and five classes of trustees, each holding office for five years: the second of the president and registrar of the university and the deans of all the faculties; the third includes all members of the council and all regular professors in the different faculties; the fourth consists, under certain statutory limitations, of all who have been admitted to degrees in the university. Departments, so organized as to pre suppose on the part of the students a collegiate education or its equivalent, are called schools. Some of these, organized and administered in the interests of persons preparing for professional life, are called professional schools. Crowning all is the school of all sciences, a purely post-graduate department for candidates for the higher degrees. There are the following. departments: college of liberal arts. established 1873: college of music. 1872; college of agriculture (Mass. agricultural college, at Amherst), 1875; school of theology. 1871: school of laws, 1872; sehool of medieine,.1873; school of all sciences. 1874. The college 6f liberal arts has fixeffastandard for ddrai3sion to classical degrees as high as that of any other university. Post-graduate students in the university may tit themselves for professorships of Greek, Latin, modern languages, philosophy, history, etc. By arrangements with the authorities of the national university at Athens, and
those of the royal university of Rome, members of tlw school of all sciences. duly recom mended, may pursue, without expense for instruction and for any number of years, select or regular courses of study in any department of those universities, enjoying all the rights and privileges of university citizenship, and, upon returning and passing satisfactory examinations upon the work accomplished, can receive a degree as if they' had remained in Boston. The greater part of the endowment of the institution was bequeathed by the late Isaac Rich, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As it is not to pass into the hands of the university corporation till 1882, its amount cannot yet be stated. The average numberof officers of instruction and government during the past four years has been 100; the average number of students over 600. The institution maintains graded courses of instruction in theology, law, and medicine, three years in duration. In medicine its course extends through four years, while the degree of bachelor of medicine has been restored. The university was organized and has been constantly administered without any discrimination in government or teaching ou account of sex. Every degree, privilege, and emolument is as (men to women as to men. This institution does not gather its students into dormitories or exercise over them except the recitation rooms.