BOSTON UNIVERSITY. This institu tion was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1869. The three men named in the charter as the original corporators were Isaac Rich, Lee Cla1in and Jacob Sleeper. The power to hold and administer funds, estab lish departments of instruction, appoint offi cers, and, in general, to direct the administra tion, vests in the corporation, whose legal title is "The Trustees of Boston University." The body consists of the president of the Univer sity, ex officio, and five classes of trustees elected from year to year for the term of five years. The president of the University and the deans of the several departments constitute the University Council. To it belongs, among other duties, that of securing a harmonious adjustment of all interdepartmental questions of administration. The members of the Uni versity Council, together with all the regular professors in the different schools and the College of Liberal Arts, constitute the Uni versity Senate. All promotions to degrees are in the name of this body and of the corpora tion. This body consists of all persons who have acquired any degree or diploma of gradu ation in the University. Every promotion to
a degree, or to the status of a graduate, is accordingly, promotion to membership in the Convocation, with defined privileges of repre sentation in the government of the University, and with corresponding duties. Boston Uni versity consists of the following departments: a College of Liberal Arts (organized 1873); a College of Business Administration (organ ized 1913) ; a School of Theology (organized 1839, made a department of Boston University in 1871); a School of Law (organized i 1872 ; a School of Medicine (organized 1873 , and a Graduate School _Organized 1874 . The faculty numbers 188. The enrol ment for the year ending 31 Aug. 1916 was 2,600. The University is co-educational through out. Boston University confers the usual aca demic and professional degrees for resident study, but has never conferred any honorary degrees. Since its organization Boston Uni versity has had three presidents: William Fair field Warren (1873-1903), William Edwards Huntington (1903-1911), Lemuel Herbert Murlin (1911).