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Week of 14 November 1997 Vol. I, No. 12 BU Yesterday This schoolhouse-like building at the corner of Boylston and Clarendon streets near Copley Square is long gone, but it played a key role in Boston University's move to the Charles River Campus. It was originally part of MIT, and when that institution moved to Cambridge, BU rented 525 Boylston and moved in the College of Business Administration (now SMG) and other departments. Dean George Makechnie recalls that when plans were made in the 1930s to raze the building for the construction of the New England Life headquarters, BU received an eviction notice. President Daniel Marsh saw this as a unique moment to push hard for his dream of moving BU west of Kenmore Square. "Only the stubbornness and audacity of Dan Marsh -- in the Depression! -- made it possible for the school to come out here," says Makechnie. "And Marsh had to fight the CBA dean, E. Everett Lord, who said, 'It is ridiculous to take a school of business out into the country.'" To the country it did come, with the first new building on the Charles River Campus opening its doors in June 1939. Photo from the 1924 Syllabus yearbook.