BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Boston, Ma ., founded in 1869, under a charter from the Commonwealth of Ma a-. chusetts. JTts many departments comprise a College of Liberal Arts, a College of Busine Administration, a School of Theology, a School of Law, a School of Medicine and a Graduate School. The University bestows the usual academic and profe ional degrees, but differs from most institutions in not conferring honorary degrees. The institution is co-educational in all its departments.| In 1923 the enrollment of students was 8,104 and the members of the faculty numbered 362. author; s. of Alexander B. of Auchinleck, who subsequently became judge of the ro aang Court, and a umed the title of Lord Auchinleck; ed. at the High School and Univ. of Edinburgh; called to the Eng. and Scot. Bar, and practiced with little succe as an advocate. ery, and, after succeeding to his j.’s estate, was enabled to live in independence. In character he was weak, foolish, vain, incontinent, and addicted to drunkenne . Yet for all his folly he po e ed a distinct genius for hunt i down celebrities, and had, as Goldsmit said, ‘the faculty of sticking.’ As the biographer of Samuel Johnson, he produced a work which is unique in its kind, and is indisputably one of the masterpieces of Eng. lit. His first meeting with Dr. Johnson took place in 1763, at Davies’ bookshop in = don, when the great lexicographer was after they met frequently. ‘Bozzy’ was elected a member of the Literary Club; and traveled with Johnson in Scotland, the result being the Journal of a Tour in the He brides (pub. 1786). His magnum opus, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., was first published in 1791, and met with instantaneous succe . During his earlier continental travels he became acquainted with Pascal di Paoli, the Corsican chief, and pub. his Account of Corsica, in 1768,