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Baston University
Fourth Decennial Catalogue
1869-1901
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HISTORICAL REGISTER
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE
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CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES .
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LEGISLATIVE ACTS
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THE CORPORATION
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THE COUNCIL
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THE SENATE
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THE CONVOCATION
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Officers and Trustee Nominations .
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Graduates of the University
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Adopted Graduates 126
INDEX OF CONVOCATION MEMBERS
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NUMERICAL SUMMARIES
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PREFACE.
THE first catalogue of officers and students ever issued by Boston University was included, as Part First, in the Annual Report of the School of Theology for the year 1871-72. At that time the just adopted School of Theology was the only department maintained by the University, and its faculty and students constituted the total scho- lastic body. As it happened, that scholastic year closed the first third of a century since the projecting of the School in Boston, and the first quarter of a century since its opening in Concord. Accordingly a large part of the Annual Report was appropriately devoted to a historical sketch of the founding and fortunes of the institution. On pp. 48-51 all past officers of instruction were named, together with their years of service. Then, under the successive years, the names of all students entering from year to year were given, with indication of those who later attained the honor of graduation. Thus it came to pass that the first Annual Catalogue ever issued by the University was in the same cover with an elaborate historical register covering more than a quarter of a century.
Ten years later, in the eighth volume of the University Year Book, appeared a second retrospective summary of results, classified by years, by departments and by degrees ; the names of all persons promoted by the University up to that time were there printed for the convenience of all interested.
In 1891, another decade having passed, a new and independent volume was issued which, under the title " Historical Register of Bos- ton University," recorded all promotions to that date. From the numerical summary at the close it appeared that of those graduated by the University 1,914 were men, 493 women; total 2,407, of whom 2,307 were supposed to be living. The whole number of adopted
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graduates, alumni of the theological department before its incorpora- tion in the University, was 237, of whom 203 were supposed to be living.
The present volume is thus the fourth official decennial catalogue of the persons that have obtained life-membership in the University by promotion into the Convocation. It also includes the names of the persons that have had a place in the government of the institution, or upon its staff of instruction.
In the Preface to the issue of 1891 the reasons for the selection of the name " Historical Register" were given ; also a reference to the fuller information respecting graduates at one time sought for in its pages. A few errors that escaped notice in the same issue have here been corrected.
The chief labor in preparing the present edition has been per- formed by Mr. John M. Boyd, A. B., Librarian and Secretary of the School of Law. If among the thousands of figures and letters no one should turn out to be wrong, it would be little less than a miracle. In works of this kind the maximum of correctness can be attained only by the painstaking cooperation of many. The undersigned, therefore, urgently requests that any error herein discovered, however slight, be promptly reported to him, that he may make the proper correction and hold it for the next edition.
Hivat Universitas.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY,
W. F. WARREN. 100th Birthday of Isaac Rich.
CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES.
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was made flesh, And dwelt among us.
A.D. 1-664.
Ex Oriente Lux. Evangelization of Great Britain.
664-690.
Theodore (a Greek born in Tarsus), Archbishop of Canterbury. Founds in Canterbury a school for the promotion of the knowledge of Greek and other good learning.
672-735.
The Venerable Bede, a native Anglo-Saxon trained in the school established by Theodore, devotes a long and peaceful life to the culti- vation of letters, and "makes himself master of the whole range of existing knowledge." He writes Latin prose and verse fluently, and with his dying breath completes a translation of the Gospel of John into the language of his own people.
735-804.
Alcuin, born in Yorkshire, later " the intellectual prime minister of Charlemagne."
849-900.
Alfred the Great, chief teacher as well as king of his people. According to tradition, founder of the University of Oxford.
872-1326.
Oxford becomes a center of intellectual and spiritual life. En- dowed Christian colleges there founded as follows: University (legend- ary date), 872; Balliol, 1263; Merton, 1264; Exeter, 1314; Oriel, 1326; soon followed by many more. 1214-92, Roger Bacon, " the Admirable Doctor," precursor of Francis Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton, pioneer teacher and discoverer in the field of the natural sciences. His last years spent in prison for exposing the ignorance and vice of
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the monks and clergy. Motto of the University (from Ps. xxvii. 1) : Dominus illuminatio mea.
1327-1384.
John Wyclif, born 1324 or 1327. In 1340 a commoner in the just founded Queen's College. Later, Fellow of Merton; 1360-65, Warden of Balliol; 1365-70, Master of Canterbury Hall, which was afterwards merged in Christ Church College. In 1372 created Doctor in Sacred Theology. Opposes corruptions in the Church, and trans- lates the Bible into the English tongue, so giving it for the first time to the people. Dies 1384.
1340-1400.
Geoffrey Chaucer, a disciple of Wyclif, and " Father of English Poetry."
1427.
Lincoln College founded as a defense against the spread of Wyclif's teachings and spirit.
1428.
Wyclif's body disinterred and burned by the authorities of the Church. His ashes are cast into a little tributary of the Avon, called Swift Brook, and thus, says Fuller, "this brook did convey his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Scvern into the narrow sea, and this into the wide ocean. And so the ashes of Wyclif are the emblem of his doctrine which is now dispersed all the world over." Compare Wordsworth's sonnet. -
1477-1536.
William Tyndale continues at Oxford the work of Wyclif, pub- lishes a new translation of the Bible, which becomes the basis of the Authorized Version; associates with the Continental Reformers, and dics at the stake.
1489-1545.
William Latimer, humanist and friend of Erasmus, becomes Fellow of All Souls' College, 1489; dies 1545. Erasmus in Oxford, 1498-99; is later, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge; later, publishes first edition of the Greek New Testament ever printed. German and Swiss Reformers also visit England, several residing protracted periods.
1555.
Archbishop Cranmer, and Bishops Latimer and Ridley, bearing
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witness to the saered truths they had maintained against the errors of the Church of Rome, burned at the stake, in Oxford, near Balliol College.
1584.
Emmanuel College founded in Cambridge - the first to be organ- ized for the propagation of Puritan principles. In it were edueated many of the founders of New England, among them Rev. John Har- vard, in memory of whom the first Puritan college in the New World, founded 1636, is named.
1647-1660.
The Reformation, in its extreme Puritan form, at last triumphs in Oxford, 1647. John Milton in the employ of the Commonwealth, 1649-60. The Restoration, 1660.
1703-1791.
John Wesley, six years Seholar of Christ Church College, Oxford, 1720-26; nineteen years Fellow of Lincoln College, 1726-52, Teacher in philosophy, lecturer on Greek language and literature. moderator of debates, preacher to the University, director of the " Holy Club" for New Testament study - a new Wyelif in the very college founded two hundred years earlier for the extirpation of the leaven of Wyclif's teaching.
1714-1770.
George Whitefield, of Pembroke College, joins the IIoly Club, 1735. Diseiple and lifelong friend of John Wesley. Assists William Tennett, originally of Trinity College, Dublin, in establishing the College of New Jersey and Princeton Theological Seminary, the oldest belonging to the American Presbyterians. Through Lord Dartmouth and Eleazer Wheelock, the latter an American, and a graduate of Yale, he aids in the founding of Dartmouth College, in New IIamp- shire. James Manning, educated in the College of New Jersey, class of 1762, becomes founder and first President of Brown University, oldest of Baptist colleges in America, opened in Providenee, R. I., 1770, the year of Whitefield's death. Like John Wesley, Roger Will- iams, the founder of this Colony of Rhode Island, was educated at the Charterhouse School, London; and like Thomas Coke, was an alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford.
1747-1814.
Thomas Coke, son of the chief magistrate of Breeon, Wales, born
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1747. In 1763, Gentleman Commoner in Jesus College, Oxford, with which he maintains connection twelve years. Is promoted to the Bachelor's degree in 1768, to the Master's in 1770, to the degree of Doctor of Civil Law in 1775. In 1771 is ordained deacon, and the following year a presbyter in the Church of England. Bceomes curate of South Pctherton, Somersetshire. A book on regeneration by Prcs- ident Witherspoon of the College of New Jersey, with other influences, prepares him to become an associate and cminent colleague of John Wesley.
1784.
Thomas Coke and Franeis Asbury, on designation of John Wesley, by unanimous vote of the General Conference, at Baltimore, are consti- tuted first Bishops of the first national church organization effected in the new American Republic, the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cokes- bury College, established the same year, and located at Abingdon, Md., is planned, with improvements, after the model of Jesus College, Oxford; named in honor of Coke and Asbury, and administered under their supervision.
1824-1831.
Abel Bliss, educated at Cokesbury College, a Massachusetts senator, participates as second of the incorporators in the establishment of Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., in 1824, and becomes first Secretary of its Board of Trustees. Wilbur Fisk, a graduate of Brown University, is made first Principal of the institution. In 1831, the friends of Wesleyan Academy procure a charter incorporating Wes- leyan University, at Middletown, Conn. The Hon. Abel Bliss is one of the original Trustees of the University, and Wilbur Fisk its first President.
1839.
As a suitable commemoration of the first Centennial of Eeumenieal Methodism, officers, graduates, and friends of Wesleyan Academy, and of Wesleyan University, in an educational convention, held in Boston, and representing all the New England States, project an institution for ministerial training, which after twenty-five experimental years at New- bury, Vt., and at Concord, N. H., is, in the year 1867, removed to Boston, and here opened as the Boston Thcologieal Seminary. Osmon C. Baker, first Theological Professor at Newbury, later Bishop, and second President of the Faculty at Concord, was the first student ever registered in Wesleyan University.
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1844-1880.
Jacob Sleeper, Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan University. Second President of the Corporation, 1869-71. Born in Newcastle, Me., Nov. 21, 1802; died in Boston March 31, 1889. Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan Academy, 1849-89. State-appointed Over- seer of Harvard University, 1856-68. Trustee and benefactor of the Theological Seminary, 1847-71.
1849-1872.
Isaac Rich, Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan University. Born in Wellfleet, Mass., Oct. 24, 1801; died in Boston Jan. 13, 1872. Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan Academy, 1853-72. Trustee and benefactor of the Theological Seminary, 1864-71.
1853-1871.
Lee Claflin, Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan University. Born in Hopkinton, Mass., Nov. 19, 1791; died in Boston Feb. 23, 1871. Trustee and benefactor of Wesleyan Academy, 1849-71. Trustee and benefactor of the Theological Seminary, 1847-72.
1869.
Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, and Jacob Sleeper (at the time, President, Vice-President, and Treasurer, respectively, of the Boston Theological Seminary; also, all of them Trustees of Wesleyan Academy, and of Wesleyan University) procure from the Legislature of Massachusetts a charter incorporating BOSTON UNIVERSITY, and constituting them, their associates and successors, Trustees of the same. Among these associates, sharing in the action of the first meeting, were the following graduates of Wesleyan University : Gilbert Haven, Class of '46; Will- iam F. Warren, Class of '53; David Patten, Class of '34; John H. Twombly, Class of '43; John W. Lindsay, Class of '40; and William R. Clark, Class of '52. A graduate of Wesleyan University drew up the charter, and His Excellency William Claflin, who, as governor of Massachusetts, officially approved it, after passage by the Legislature, was a Doctor of Laws of Harvard University, and son of the second incorporator. Within seven years, seven Colleges and Schools are found in successful operation within the University organization. Text of first Baccalaureate Discourse the Oxford University legend : Dominus illuminatio mea.
So shall the bright succession run Through all the courses of the sun ; And unborn teachers, wiser still, The world with light and learning fill.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTS.
[Chap. 322, Acts of 1869.] AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THIE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, Jacob Sleeper, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Trus- tees of Boston University, and they and their successors, and such as shall be duly elected members of said corporation, shall be and remain a body corpo- rate by that name forever. And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation, the said trustees shall have power and authority, from time to time, as occasion may require, to elect a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation as may be fonnd necessary, and to declare the duties and tennres of their respective offices ; and also to remove any trustec from the said corporation, when in their judgment he shall be rendered incapable, by age or otherwise, of dis- charging the duties of his office, or'shall neglect or refuse to perform the same, and also to elect new members of said corporation. The number of members shall never be less than ten nor inore than thirty, and their quali- fications and term of service shall be fixed at the first meeting of the corpo- ration.
SECT. 2. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be held, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at snch meetings ; and also to establish boards of instruction in all departments of science and the arts, to elect a president of said university, aud such professors, tutors, instructors, and other nniversity officers, as they shall judge for the interest thereof, and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, responsibilities, and tennrcs of their respective offices. And the said corporation is further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in repair, snch houses and other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said university ; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders, and by-laws, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, and with reasonable penalties, for the good government of the said university, for the regulation of their own body ; and also to determine and regnlate the conrses of instruction in said nniversity, and to confer degrees ; bnt no de- gree shall be conferred except npon the recommendation of the appropriate faculty.
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SECT. 3. The said corporation may have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at their pleasure, and all deeds sealed with the seal of said corporation, and signed by their order, shall, when made in their cor- porate namne, be considered in law as the deeds of said corporation; and said corporation may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal, and mixed, and may prosecute the same to final judginent and execution by the name of the Trustees of Boston University ; and said corporation may take and hold in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise, any land, tenements, or other estate, real or personal; but the elear annual income of the same shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
SECT. 4. The elear rents and profits of all the estate, real and per- sonal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be appropriated to the maintenance and endowment of said university, in such manner as shall most effectually promote virtue and piety, and learn- ing in such of the languages and of the liberal and useful arts and sciences, as shall be recommended from time to time by the said corporation, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors in the application of any es- tate which may be given, devised or bequeathed for any particular objeet connected with the university.
SECT. 5. No instructor in said university shall ever be required by the trustees to profess any particular religious opinions as a test for office, and no student shall be refused admission to, or denied any of the privileges, honors, or degrees of said university on account of the religious opinions which he may entertain ; but this section shall not apply to the Theologieal Department of said university.
SECT. 6. The legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul, or restrain any of the powers vested by this aet in the said corporation, as shall be found necessary to promote the best interests of said university, and more especially may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of said university, with all necessary powers for the better aid, preservation and government of the same.
SECT. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Approved May 26, 1869.
[Chap. 151, Acts of 1871.] AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE THE BOSTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO UNITE.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. The Boston Theological Seminary is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer to the Trustees of Boston University, upon such terms and conditions as shall be fixed and agreed upon by said corporations, the school hitherto maintained by said Boston Theological Seminary, and
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all the powers, rights, privileges, franchises, property, claims, trusts, and estates appertaining in law or in equity to said Boston Theological Seminary.
SECT. 2. When such transfer shall have been agreed upon by the two corporations aforesaid, in meetings duly called to act upon that subject, and a certificate thereof signed by the presidents of such corporations shall have been filed in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, the Trustees of Boston University shall thereupon take and enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges, franchises, property, claims, trusts, and estates appertaining in law or in equity to said Boston Theological Seminary, subject to all duties, restrictions, and liabilities belonging thereto, and said Boston Theological Seminary shall thereafter remain a corporation only for the purpose of executing all such transfers, assignments, and conveyances as may be deemed necessary to vest all such rights, property, claims, and estates in the Trustees of Boston University, and for the purpose also of receiving any gifts, devises, and bequests that may have been made to it by will or otherwise, and transferring the same as aforesaid.
SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 30, 1871.
[Chap. 276, Acts of 1874.] AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE THE NEW ENGLAND FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE AND THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO UNITE.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. The New England Female Medical College may transfer to the Trustees of Boston University, upon such terms and conditions as shall be fixed and agreed upon by said corporations, the school hitherto main- tained by said New England Female Medical College, and all the powers, rights, privileges, franchises, property, claims, trusts, and estates apper- taining in law or in equity to said New England Female Medical College.
SECT. 2. When such transfer has been agreed upon by the two corpo- rations aforesaid, in meetings duly called to act upon that subject, and duly executed, and a certificate thereof signed by the presidents of such corpora- tions has been filed in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth, the Trustees of Boston University shall thereupon take and enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges, franchises, property, claims, trusts, and estates apper- taining in law or in equity to said New England Female Medical College, subject to all duties, restrictions, and liabilities belonging thereto, and said New England Female Medical College shall thereafter remain a corporation only for the purpose of executing all such transfers, assignments, and con- veyances as are deemed necessary to vest all such rights, property, claims, and estates in the Trustees of Boston University, and for the purpose also of receiving any gifts, devises, and bequests that may have been made to it by will or otherwise, and transferring the same as aforesaid.
SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved May 29, 1874.
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[Chap. 304.]
AN ACT
TO ENABLE THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO TAKE AND HOLD LANDS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY DEVISE.
[Passed April 24, 1883.]
The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :
SECTION 1. The Trustees of the Boston University, a corporation organ- ized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Massachu- setts, are hereby authorized and empowered to take and hold lands in this State, by devise, or under the provisions of any will, in the same manner and under the same limitations applicable to benevolent and scientific cor- porations organized under the laws of this State.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
AN ACT
TO ENLARGE THE POWER OF THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD PROPERTY WITHOUT ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION.
Be it enacted, etc .:
SECTION 1. Section third of the act to incorporate the Trustees of Bos- ton University [Acts of 1869, Chapter 322) is hereby altercd and amended by substituting for the words, " but the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars," the following, to wit: "pro- vided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to give the said corporation any claim to greater cxemption from taxation than it now has under the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth."
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
THE CORPORATION.
ELECTED A.D.
PRESIDENTS.
LEFT OFFICE A.D.
1869
*ISAAC RICH .
1872
1872
*JACOB SLEEPER
1872
1872
WILLIAM CLAFLIN.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
1869
WILLIAM CLAFLIN 1872
1872
*GEORGE F. GAVITT
. 1875
1875
*JACOB SLEEPER
1889
1889
ALDEN SPEARE
SECRETARIES.
1869
FRANCIS A. PERRY
1873
1873
*DAVID PATTEN
1879
1879
PLINY NICKERSON 1879
1879
*BRADFORD K. PEIRCE . 1888
1888
WILLIAM R. CLARK 1893
1893
*WM. N. BRODBECK
1898
1898
WILLARD T. PERRIN
TREASURERS.
1869
*JACOB SLEEPER 1873
1873
*ABNER I. BENYON. 1875
1875
RICHARD W. HUSTED
REGISTRARS.
1873
*DAVID PATTEN 1879
1882
THOMAS W. BISHOP 1883
1891
WALDRON H. RAND
.
1894
* Deceased. So throughout the catalogue.
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ELECTED A.D.
TRUSTEES.
LEFT OFFICE A.D.
INCORPORATOR *ISAAC RICII
1827
*LEE CLAFLIN
1871
*JACOB SLEEPER
1889
1869
WILLIAM CLAFLIN
1869
*JOSEPHI B. THOMAS
1891
1869
*HENRY O. HOUGHTON .
1895
1869
*LEONARD WHITNEY, JR.
1881
1869
PLINY NICKERSON
1900
1869
FRANCIS A. PERRY
. 1883
1869
*GILBERT HAVEN
1880
1869
WILLIAM F. WARREN .
1869
*DAVID PATTEN
. 1879
1869
*JOHN H. TWOMBLY
1893
1869
JOHN W. LINDSAY
1882
1870
*WILLIAM G. LINCOLN
1881
1870
*GEORGE F. GAVITT
1879
1871
WILLIAM R. CLARK
1894
1871
*LUCIUS W. POND
1875
1872
*JOSEPH H. CHADWICK
. 1902
1872
*HARVEY ARNOLD .
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