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Boston College came into Saturday's game against the Duke Blue Devils having lost its last five games since beating the University of Miami at home on Jan. 15. In four out of those five losses, the margin of defeat was eight points or more. Duke came into the game at the opposite end of the spectrum, having just beaten its arch rival, the No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels, in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Wednesday night.
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Due largely to its location and architecture, the Boston College campus is known affectionately as the "Heights," the "Crowned Hilltop" and "Oxford in America." This last moniker was the title of the original campus master plan and was confirmed by a visiting British journalist in 1915 who famously wrote, "Even in embryo, it is Oxford and Cambridge without their grime."[30]
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Boston College was founded in 1863 to serve the sons of Irish Catholic immigrants who were a large and growing part of Boston’s population. As the city grew, so did Boston College’s scope and ambition. A search for more land prompted a move in 1913 to what is today the University’s 116-acre main campus in Chestnut Hill.
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Boston College is called The Heights, a reference to both its lofty aspirations — the college motto is "Ever to Excel" — and its elevated location on Chestnut Hill, or "University Heights" as the area was initially designated. The name has lent itself to a number of campus organizations — including the principal student newspaper, The Heights — and to those affiliated with the university: BC students were universally called "Heightsmen" until 1925 when Mary C. Mellyn became the first "Heightswoman" to receive a BC degree. Today, the university's legacy includes over 143,000 alumni in over 120 countries around the world.[6]
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