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{{University
|name=Boston University
|image=
|text=white
|background=#CC0000
|type=Private<ref name="CB">{{cite web|work=College Board|url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?match=true&collegeId=39&searchType=college&type=qfs&word=Boston%20University|title=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|size= 32,735<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/info/about/|work=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|title=About BU|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|city=[[Boston, Massachusetts]]
|sports=Basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, wrestling<ref name="sports">{{cite web|url=http://goterriers.cstv.com/|work=Boston University|title=Official Website of the Boston University Department of Athletics|format=HTML|language=English|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|colors=Scarlet, whte<ref name="sfaq">{{cite web|work=Boston University|title=Frequently Asked Questions|format=HTML|language=English|url=http://goterriers.cstv.com/administration/faq.html|accessdate=2009-01-28|publisher=CBS Interactive}}</ref>
|mascot=Rhett the Terrier<ref name="sfaq"/>
|website=http://www.bu.edu/
}}
'''Boston University''' is a four-year [[private schools|private]] [[university]] in Boston, [[Massachusetts]].
==History==
In 1839 LaRoy Sunderland founded the Newbury Biblical Institute, a [[Methodist]] school in [[Vermont]].<ref name="history50">{{cite web|work=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|title=History - The Early Years|accessdte=2009-01-28|url=http://www.bu.edu/dbin/infocenter/content/index.php?pageid=923&topicid=13}}</ref> This was the first [[seminary]] of the United Methodist Church.<ref name="history50"/> In 1846 the school was moved to [[New Hampshire]] and renamed the Methodist General Biblical Institute of Concord.<ref name="history50"/> In 1866 the school's trustees declined an invitation from [[Harvard University]] to relocate to Cambridge, and, instead, they decided to move to Boston. In 1867 the Boston School of Theology was opened.<ref name="history50"/>
The idea for a university came from acting-president William Fairfield Warren; he envisioned a school that took the best from the German and English models - one which would include undergraduate colleges, graduate schools and professional schools.<ref name="history50"/> In 1869 the school was chartered by Lee Claflin, Jacob Sleeper and Isaac Rich; their and Warren's abolitionist ideas led them to create a university that was open to both [[gender]]s and all [[race]]s.<ref name="about"/> Warren is thought to have articulated the first need-blind admissions policy in the United States: "any admitted student would be able to attend; scholarships would take care of financial need".<ref name="history50"/>
==Alumni==
Notable alumni include [[Civil Rights]] leader [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], the first woman to earn a Ph.D. (Helen Magill White), the first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts (Lelia Robinson), the first Native American to graduate with a doctorate in medicine, and the first African-American psychiatrist in the United States (Solomon Carter Fuller).<ref name="about"/>
==References==
<references/>
|name=Boston University
|image=
|text=white
|background=#CC0000
|type=Private<ref name="CB">{{cite web|work=College Board|url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?match=true&collegeId=39&searchType=college&type=qfs&word=Boston%20University|title=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|size= 32,735<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/info/about/|work=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|title=About BU|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|city=[[Boston, Massachusetts]]
|sports=Basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, wrestling<ref name="sports">{{cite web|url=http://goterriers.cstv.com/|work=Boston University|title=Official Website of the Boston University Department of Athletics|format=HTML|language=English|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=2009-01-28}}</ref>
|colors=Scarlet, whte<ref name="sfaq">{{cite web|work=Boston University|title=Frequently Asked Questions|format=HTML|language=English|url=http://goterriers.cstv.com/administration/faq.html|accessdate=2009-01-28|publisher=CBS Interactive}}</ref>
|mascot=Rhett the Terrier<ref name="sfaq"/>
|website=http://www.bu.edu/
}}
'''Boston University''' is a four-year [[private schools|private]] [[university]] in Boston, [[Massachusetts]].
==History==
In 1839 LaRoy Sunderland founded the Newbury Biblical Institute, a [[Methodist]] school in [[Vermont]].<ref name="history50">{{cite web|work=Boston University|format=HTML|language=English|title=History - The Early Years|accessdte=2009-01-28|url=http://www.bu.edu/dbin/infocenter/content/index.php?pageid=923&topicid=13}}</ref> This was the first [[seminary]] of the United Methodist Church.<ref name="history50"/> In 1846 the school was moved to [[New Hampshire]] and renamed the Methodist General Biblical Institute of Concord.<ref name="history50"/> In 1866 the school's trustees declined an invitation from [[Harvard University]] to relocate to Cambridge, and, instead, they decided to move to Boston. In 1867 the Boston School of Theology was opened.<ref name="history50"/>
The idea for a university came from acting-president William Fairfield Warren; he envisioned a school that took the best from the German and English models - one which would include undergraduate colleges, graduate schools and professional schools.<ref name="history50"/> In 1869 the school was chartered by Lee Claflin, Jacob Sleeper and Isaac Rich; their and Warren's abolitionist ideas led them to create a university that was open to both [[gender]]s and all [[race]]s.<ref name="about"/> Warren is thought to have articulated the first need-blind admissions policy in the United States: "any admitted student would be able to attend; scholarships would take care of financial need".<ref name="history50"/>
==Alumni==
Notable alumni include [[Civil Rights]] leader [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], the first woman to earn a Ph.D. (Helen Magill White), the first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts (Lelia Robinson), the first Native American to graduate with a doctorate in medicine, and the first African-American psychiatrist in the United States (Solomon Carter Fuller).<ref name="about"/>
==References==
<references/>