NOTE. THE design of the following chapters is to present, in a compact yet readable form, material for a sufficiently full knowledge of the history, resources, and aims of the several institutions described, as understood by their officers and friends. Considerable freedom has been given to the various writers; it being more desirable to present a picture of each institution as known to its own graduates and undergraduates, than to conform all the accounts to a uniform style of narration. The authorship of the several chapters is as follows: Harvard University, Professor James Barr Ames; Yale College, William L. Kingsley; College of New Jersey, Frederick Vinton; University of Pennsylvania, Provost C. J. Stillé; Brown University, Reuben A. Guild; Rutgers College, Professor T. S. Doolittle; Williams College, the Rev. Washington Gladden; Union College, Professor William Wells; Bowdoin College, the Rev. G. T. Packard; Hamilton College, Professor Edward North; Trinity College, William C. Brocklesby; Wesleyan University, Professor C. T. Winchester; Lafayette College, Professor F. A. March; Oberlin College, President James H. Fairchild; University of Michigan, Professor Charles K. Adams; Vassar College, Professor Truman J. Backus. The following chapters were prepared by the editors: William and Mary College, Columbia College, Dartmouth College, the Military Academy, Amherst College, the University of Virginia, the Naval Academy, and Cornell University. Special use was made, by permission of their authors, of President B. S. Ewell's history of William and Mary, Professor J. H. Van Amringe's history of Columbia; Professor J. K. Lord's manuscript history of Dartmouth, Professor W. S. Tyler's history of Amherst, and Professor J. R. Soley's history of the Naval Academy. |