精东影业 Chronology
1847 | Father John McElroy and 4 other Jesuits arrive in Boston to assume duties in St. Mary鈥檚 church, North End; begin planning to open school聽 |
1853 | McElroy purchases land in North End for school; building blocked by anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic political sentiment; site abandoned 4 years later |
1857 | McElroy purchases land in South End for school and church; ground broken 1858 |
1860 | College building completed; used as Jesuit seminary with Father John Bapst as rector |
1861 | Immaculate Conception church, adjacent to college building, completed and dedicated |
1863 | Massachusetts legislature passes bill granting charter to Boston College; Governor John Andrew signs charter, April 1; trustees meet for first time, July 8; Bapst chosen president |
1864 | Classes open, September 5; 22 students enrolled on first day; Father Robert Fulton 鈥減refect of studies鈥 (dean) |
1865 | First 鈥渆xhibition鈥 of student accomplishments at end of school year; no graduates |
1868 | Debating teams organized; senior team named Fulton Debating Society 1890; dramatic scenes from Shakespeare presented as part of annual exhibition |
1869 | Father Robert Brady succeeds Bapst as president; serves only one year |
1870 | Fulton succeeds Brady as president; militia company formed for physical training of students |
1875 | Fulton organizes Young Men鈥檚 Catholic Association to help support school |
1877 | First commencement ceremony, June 28; undergraduate degrees awarded to 12 students |
1880 | Father Jeremiah O鈥機onnor succeeds Fulton as president |
1883 | Boston College Athletic Club formed to support baseball team; Stylus appears as first student publication, combining school news and literary essays |
1884 | Father Edward Boursaud succeeds O鈥機onnor as president |
1885 | Maroon and gold adopted as school colors |
1886 | Boston College alumni organize and hold first annual banquet |
1887 | Father Thomas Stack appointed president; dies after only 3 weeks in office; succeeded by Father Nicholas Russo as interim president |
1888 | Fulton returns for second term as president |
1889 | School building in South End expanded |
1891 | Father Edward Devitt succeeds Fulton as president |
1893 | First intercollegiate football game: Boston College loses to Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1894 | Father Timothy Brosnahan succeeds Devitt as president; beginning of dispute with Harvard over admission of Boston College graduates to Harvard Law School |
1895 | First intercollegiate debate: Boston College loses to Georgetown |
1896 | Beginning of football rivalry with Holy Cross |
1898 | Father Read Mullan succeeds Brosnahan as president; begins planning for enhancement of collegiate program |
1903 | Father William Gannon succeeds Mullan as president |
1904 | Separation of college and high school divisions; Boston College High School holds separate graduation for first time |
1907 | Father Thomas Gasson succeeds Gannon as president; purchases site in Chestnut Hill for new college campus |
1909 | Ground broken for 鈥淩ecitation Building,鈥 later to be called Gasson Hall |
1913 | Senior class rides trolleys to new campus and takes possession of new building, March 28; cornerstone laid in June; graduation at Chestnut Hill for first time; all college classes held there beginning that fall; first issue of yearbook, Sub Turri |
1914 | Father Charles Lyons succeeds Gasson as president |
1915 | Philomatheia Club formed to organize local women in support of Boston College |
1917 | Construction of St. Mary鈥檚 Hall as house for Jesuit faculty |
1918 | Students鈥 Army Training Corps organized to prepare students for service in World War I; temporary barracks constructed on campus to house them; program continues after war as Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) |
1919 | Father William Devlin succeeds Lyons as president; first issue of student newspaper, The Heights, November 17; first education classes offered |
1920 | Adoption of eagle as school mascot |
1921 | Fundraising campaign to support construction of new buildings; ground broken for science building, later named Devlin Hall; building completed 1924 |
1922 | Ground broken for Bapst Library; Weston College, the Jesuit seminary, opens |
1924 | Summer school classes begin; these are first classes on campus to admit women |
1925 | Father James Dolan succeeds Devlin as president; organization of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
1928 | Bapst Library opened; Weston seismological observatory opened |
1929 | Opening of Law School; classes held in Lawyers鈥 Building in downtown Boston; undergraduate evening 鈥渆xtension鈥 classes begin at original South End site |
1932 | Father Louis Gallagher succeeds Dolan as president; bleachers installed in angle formed by College Road and Beacon Street, called 鈥淎lumni Field鈥 |
1935 | Greek requirement for undergraduates dropped |
1936 | Graduate School of Social Work opened at Intown Center on Newbury Street, Boston; school moves to McGuinn Hall on campus 1968 |
1937 | Father William McGarry succeeds Gallagher as president |
1938 | College of Business Administration opens at Intown Center; later renamed School of Management; college entrance examinations (SAT) become requirement for all undergraduates |
1939 | Father William Murphy succeeds McGarry as president; Order of the Cross and Crown established as student honor society |
1940 | Football team wins national championship |
1941 | Acquisition of estate adjacent to campus, renamed O鈥機onnell Hall; enrollment shrinks as students leave for military service in World War II |
1945 | Father William Keleher succeeds Murphy as president |
1946 | Student body swells with returning veterans, assisted by G. I. Bill; Newton College of the Sacred Heart established, will consolidate with Boston College, 1974 |
1947 | School of Nursing opened; classes are held at Intown Center; will move to Cushing Hall on campus, 1960; annual Candlemas Lecture begun |
1948 | Fulton Hall opened as home for business school |
1950 | Standards for faculty promotion and tenure formalized |
1951 | Father Joseph Maxwell succeeds Keleher as president; Lyons Hall constructed |
1952 | School of Education established; building for school, Campion Hall, completed 1955 |
1954 | More Hall opened as home of law school; beginnings of Boston College Citizen Seminars, part of planning for urban renewal in Boston |
1955 | First upper campus dormitories (Claver, Loyola, Xavier) opened for resident students |
1957 | Patricia Goler and Sister Josephena Concannon become first women to receive Ph.D. from Boston College; new Alumni Stadium constructed |
1958 | Father Michael Walsh succeeds Maxwell as president; Humanities Series begins; Arts and Sciences Honors Program begins; Latin requirement for undergraduates dropped |
1959 | Six women students admitted to School of Education but take classes in College of Arts and Sciences: first women in A&S |
1961 | McElroy Commons opens as student center |
1962 | Bob Cousy, former star of the Boston Celtics, hired as basketball coach |
1963 | Centennial celebration; President John Kennedy addresses convocation in April |
1964 | Carney Hall opened as classroom and faculty office building |
1965 | Higgins Hall built to expand science facilities; building renovated 1997-1998 |
1967 | Four Boston College undergraduates win championship on 鈥淕.E. College Bowl,鈥澛爐elevision quiz show; student government reorganized as Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UG精东影业) |
1968 | Father Seavey Joyce succeeds Walsh as president; dispute over tenure of Prof. Mary Daly of theology department; establishment of Black Talent Program, precursor to AHANA Student Programs |
1970 | Students go out on strike in April in response to proposed 25% increase in tuition; in September, women admitted for first time as freshmen in A&S and business school; Mods housing opened |
1971 | Phi Beta Kappa chapter established; student RecPlex opens |
1972 | Father Donald Monan succeeds Joyce as president; board of trustees reorganized include lay and Jesuit members |
1973 | New academic calendar adopted, with first semester exams before Christmas; Boston College Women鈥檚 Center opens |
1974 | Merger of Boston College and Newton College of the Sacred Heart |
1976 | Applications top 10,000 for the first time; New Heights Advancement Campaign raises record $25 million |
1979 | Vice President Walter Mondale commencement speaker; Vice President George H. W. Bush will be speaker in 1982 |
1980 | Gasson Chair established for distinguished visiting Jesuit scholar |
1981 | Robsham Theater opens |
1982 | Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Scholarship established; Father William Neenan begins annual 鈥淒ean鈥檚 List鈥 of recommended reading |
1984 | O鈥橬eill Library opens |
1986 | Bapst Library renovated; Burns Library for Rare Books and Special Collections opens |
1987 | Jesuit Institute established |
1988 | Conte Forum replaces former basketball (Roberts Center) and hockey (McHugh Forum) facilities; McMullen Museum of Art opens |
1991 | Merkert Chemistry Center opens |
1996 | Father William Leahy succeeds Monan as president |
1998 | Center for Retirement Research opens |
1999 | First annual Arts Festival; Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life opens |
2001 | Center for Christian-Jewish Learning opens |
2002 | Church in the Twenty-First Century initiative begins; becomes permanent Center, 2004; Council for Women of Boston College established |
2004 | Acquisition of Brighton Campus from Archdiocese of Boston |
2005 | Undergraduate research journal, Elements, begins publication; Connors Family Retreat Center, Dover, opens |
2006 | Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics established; Clough Colloquium inaugurated; author and historian David McCullough gives first lecture; McCullough commencement speaker |
2008 | School of Theology and Ministry established |
2012-2013 | University celebrates sesquicentennial |