Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Boston College, Boston, Mass., 1900-1901 This institution, controlled and directed by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, was chartered May 25, 1863, by the State of Massachusetts, under the corporate title of the trustees OF the boston college IN boston, with power and authority to confer such degrees as are usually conferred by colleges in this Commonwealth, except medical degrees. Under the act of incorporation, schools were Opened September 5, 1864. The same act of incorporation provides that no student of said College shall be refused admission to, or denied any of the privileges, honors, or degrees of said College on account of the religious opinions he may entertain. Students' who are not Catholics will not be required to participate in any distinctively Catholic exercise, nor will' any undue influence be exerted to induce a change of religious belief, but evidence will be demanded of the candidate to prove good moral character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.