Campus digest

Abuzz

The apiary at Fulton Hall

Real problems

A course in development, from the ground up

Heartstrings

Composer Ralf Gawlick opens memories

High fly

Eagle baseball's improbable postseason run

World views

Four research journals written and edited by students at Boston College in 2015–16

Close-up

BIG time

Step by step

Faculty and staff rack up the miles

Elegy for Edmond’s

Rough at the edges, it was still home

Assigned reading

HIST 2020—Japanese Cultural Icons through Modern Times

From the McMullen Museum

Heavy Weather

Quotable

From Children and AIDS: Sub-Saharan Africa

Modest beginnings

Tracing a strain of humility in American public speaking

On the cover: During a campus tour, Victoria DiMillo ’17 leads a group of parents and prospective students down Linden Lane. Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

June 28, 2016

Seven and a half hours, 20 tours, four information sessions, and 580 visitors (from 27 states and six countries)

Zachary Jason / Photographs by Lee Pellegrini

Mystery man

How the insurance executive Wallace Stevens came to stand as one of America's greatest poets

by Paul Mariani

Foundational

'Massive and elegant,' according to the New York Times, the granite church in Boston's South End was the early Boston College's religious and community anchor. A working Jesuit parish until 2007, the building will soon be developed as condominiums

by Seth Meehan, Ph.D'14

War-torn

The emotional toll of 19th-century combat

Best friend

Animal rights lawyer Justin Marceau '00

"Early Risers," "The Irish Church," "Life Lines," "Words to Live By," "Campaign Notes," "Value Added," "Well-Versed," "Father Figure"

Early admission