BOSTON UNIVERSITY. A system of allied schools and colleges. The university is situated in Boston, Mass., and was chartered by the Nassaehusetts Legislature in 1869, the original corporaters being Isaac Rich, Lee Claf lin, and Jamb Sleeper. The university is di vided educatbmally into (1) a College of Liberal Arts (1873), and a College of Agriculture (Mas sachusetts Agricultural College, situated at Am herst, Mass., 1875), neither of which requires a collegiate training for matriculation; (2) a School of Theology (1871), a School of Law (1872), and a School of Medicine (1873), ad mission to all of which is conditional upon a col legial e education: and ( 3 ) a general postgradu ate department, conferring the higher degrees in the various branches of the arts and sciences, and known as the School of All Sciences. By special arrangement with the National Univer sity of Athens and the Royal University of Rome, students in the School of All Sciences may study without expense in those universities, the work done there being counted toward a degree from Boston University. The adminis
tration of the university is vested in a uni versity council, consisting of the president of the university and the deans of the constituent schools; a university senate, consisting of the council and the professors of the several facul ties; and a corporation, composed of trustees, not less than 10 in number nor more than 30, elected for a term of five years each. The chief benefactor of the university is Isaac Rich, in whose honor the institution founded 64 free scholarships; since then the university has founded over 200 other scholarships as well as two fellowships. The property held by the in stitution is valued at $1,500.000. The number of instructors in 1900 was 114. and the number of students, 1430.