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The Forum was founded in February 1908 by George W. Coleman, a Boston businessman and then leader of the Boston Baptist Social Union. The first public lectures were held in the Union's meeting place, the Ford Building on Ashburton Place, Beacon Hill, from which the Forum's name originates. The building was named after Daniel Sharp Ford ...
The Lowell Institute is a United States educational foundation located in Boston, Massachusetts, providing both free public lectures, and also advanced lectures. [1] It was endowed by a bequest of $250,000 left by John Lowell Jr., [2] who died in 1836. The Institute began work in the winter of 1839/40, [3] and an inaugural lecture was given on ...
Heather Cox Richardson (born October 8, 1962) [ 1 ] is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. [ 2 ] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
e. Peter John Kreeft (/ kreɪft /; [3] born March 16, 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. A convert to Catholicism, he is the author of over eighty books [4] on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God ...
Website. www.bc.edu /bc-web /schools /cson.html. The William F. Connell School of Nursing (CSON) is the professional nursing school at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The Connell School of Nursing awards undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, while offering a continuing education program for practitioners in the field.
Dana L. Robert. Dana Lee Robert (born 1956) is an American historian of Christianity and a missiologist. [1] She is a professor at Boston University, where she has worked since 1984. She was the co-founder of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission in 2001, one of the first university-based Centers on World Christianity in North America ...
The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million items, [ 7 ] making it the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. In 2014, the library held more than 10,000 programs, all free to the public, and lent 3.7 million materials.
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, the university has more than 15,000 total students. [ 8 ] The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees through its eight colleges and schools.