NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1912

Copyright, 1912, by
The Century Co.

Published, October, 1912

WITH GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY
COLLEGE TEACHER AND FRIEND
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
IGeneral Characteristics[3]
IIEducation à la Carte[51]
IIIThe College Campus[93]
IVReasons for Going to College[135]
VThe College Man and the World[173]
Index[203]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Chapel at West Point as seen from an Entrance to the Area of the Cadet Barracks[Frontispiece]
PAGE
Old South Middle, Yale University[8]
A Protest against Prosiness[21]
University Hall, University of Michigan[37]
The Serpentine Dance after a Foot-ball Game[45]
Johnston Gate from the Yard, Harvard University[55]
The Library, Columbia University[66]
A Popular Professor of Chemistry and his Crowded Lecture-Room[80]
Student Waiters in the Dining-Hall of an American College[97]
Amateur College Theatricals[112]
The Main Hall, University of Wisconsin[122]
Blair Arch, Princeton University[143]
Editors of the Harvard Lampoon making up the “Dummy” of a Number[154]
The Library and the Thomas Jefferson Statue, University of Virginia[164]
Harper Memorial Building and the Law Building, University of Chicago[178]
The Arch between the Dormitory Quadrangle and the Triangle, University of Pennsylvania[192]

PREFACE