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BU Yesterday
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Week of 25 September 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 7 |
BU Yesterday
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Camp Campus: Boston University's campuses aren't all accessible by MBTA. In southern New Hampshire is BU's 850-acre Sargent Camp, founded in 1912 Dr. Dudley Sargent, the same man who established what is now Sargent College. Run as a summer camp by Sargent until 1924, Sargent Camp became part of the University in 1932. In 1946 Dean George Makechnie "proposed a development plan so that Sargent and other University students could have year-round educational and recreational experiences. When President Daniel L. Marsh accepted my proposal, we began the four-year process of winterization and started summer sessions as part of the University's formal summer program." The Sargent College program ended in 1964, when the college's curricula required experience in hospitals and other health clinics. Today Metropolitan College operates the camp. Our photograph dates from the early 1920s. |
