Why go to College?

by Clayton Sedgwick Cooper

INDEX

• A
• Action the Gospel of the Undergraduate, [130]
• Agricultural Colleges, Attendance at, [56]
• Alden, Henry M., [40]
• Alien Influences in College Life, [101]
• American Undergraduate Life, [8]
• Amherst College honor system, [109]
• Amherst College, value of fraternity property, [117]
• Amherst College, plan proposed to abolish the B. S. degree, [52]
• Analysis of attitude of the Undergraduate, [6]
• Anecdotes, humorous, [19-20]
• Anecdotes of the working of college honor systems, [110-111]
• Appleton Chapel, [16]
• Arnold, Matthew, quoted, [4], [84]
• Athletics fifty years ago, [38]
• Athletics in colleges, [31]
• Athletics over-emphasized in American colleges, [33]
• Attendance of students at state and representative universities, [56]
• B
• Bacchic element among undergraduates, [26]
• Barrie, James, [135]
• Base-ball game, an exhibition of honor, [146]
• Bennett, Arnold, [105]
• Benson, A. C., [74]
• Bible classes, attendance, [25]
• Bible study, great organizations for, [125]
• Bible teaching, inadequacy of, [85]
• Billings, Josh, quoted, [78]
• Bismarck, quoted, [154]
• Book-binding as a relaxation, [184]
• Book-life in college, [158]
• Books and the undergraduate, [159]
• Books, influence of, [164]
• Boston University, [139]
• Branford, Conn., [159]
• Bryce, James, quoted, [72]
• Bushnell, Horace, [40]
• C
• Cambridge, old life at, [102]
• Campus and schoolroom, [98]
• Carnegie Foundation, [143], [188]
• Carlyle, Thomas, [4], [89], [169]
• Chesterton, Gilbert K., [122]
• Chief end of an American college, [58-62]
• Choosing a college, [140]
• Church history, inadequately taught, [85]
• Church membership, [25]
• Classroom presentation of the professor, [77]
• Clay, Henry, [144]
• College, a means to the larger life, [169]
• College and the immigrant question, [186]
• College clubs responsible for large part of undergraduate life, [117]
• College, constructive action of, [191]
• College develops individual initiative, [147]
• College fraternities, dangers of, [120]
• College graduates in the missionary field, [26]
• College graduates of fifty years ago versus those of to-day, [71]
• College journalism, [154]
• College men and the world, [173]
• College men as leaders of reform movements, [29]
• College men should be makers of public sentiment, [60]
• College slang, [15]
• College spirit, [39]
• College teachers, what they lack, [75]
• College traditions, [102]
• College work and college relaxation, [93]
• College Y. M. C. A., [25]
• Colleges and the requirement of modern business life, [174]
• Colleges, dates of founding, [153]
• Colorado School of Mines, [139]
• Columbia University, [31]
• Columbia University, financial statistics, [57]
• Columbia University, report of plan to establish the university system, [66]
• Columbia University, value of fraternity property, [117]
• Commercialism in American universities, [58]
• Cornell University, financial statistics, [57]
• Cosmopolitan life at college, [100]
• Courses of study, tendency towards the practical, [51]
• Criticisms of American colleges, [3]
• D
• Dangers of modern college fraternities, [120]
• Degrees, radical plan proposed at Amherst college, [52]
• Dickinson, L. Lowes, [178]
• Discipline emphasized by athletics, [39]
• Disraeli, quoted, [168]
• Dodge, Cleveland H., [125]
• Dodge, W. Earl, [125]
• Drummond, Henry, quoted, [16]
• Dyke, Henry van, [24]
• E
• East Indian student’s description of his daily routine, [101]
• Eastern universities, attendance at, [56]
• Editors of The Rake suspended, [105]
• Education the secret of American success, [153]
• Education to meet popular demands, [65]
• Elective studies, [63]
• Eliot, President of Yale, [154]
• Emerson, Ralph W., [40], [46], [181], [190]
• English literature, inadequately taught, [85]
• Enrollment in agricultural and mechanical colleges, [56];
• in Johns Hopkins University, [56]
• F
• Faculties’ attitude towards fraternities, [118]
• Faunce, President of Brown University, [118]
• Fish-hatching as a relaxation, [184]
• Financial statistics of various colleges, [57]
• Foot-ball in colleges, [37]
• Foot-ball, instance at a Harvard-Yale game, [131]
• Foreign students in American colleges, [100]
• Forms of relaxation, [183]
• Fraternities, membership, [116]
• Fraternity alumni, coöperation of, sought, [119]
• Fraternity houses, [117]
• Fraternity houses, problems connected with, [118]
• Fraternity life in college, [116]
• G
• Garfield, James H., [144]
• German universities, research work in, [70]
• Gilman, Daniel Coit, President Johns Hopkins, [73]
• Gosse, Edmund, [189]
• Government by Undergraduates, [150]
• Graduate testimony concerning college, [138]
• Grant, Gen. U. S., [147]
• Greek-letter societies, [116]
• Growth of practical education, [55]
• H
• Hadley, Arthur Twining, President of Yale, [146]
• Harkness, Albert, [75]
• Harper, Dr. William R., [55]
• Harvard University, date founded, [153]
• Harvard faculty authorized to inflict corporal punishment, [149]
• Harvard University, financial statistics, [57]
• “Hasty Pudding, The,” of Harvard, [117]
• Heine, Heinrich, [18]
• Hibben, John G., [187]
• History, two ways of teaching, [79]
• Honor and square dealing, [145]
• Honor of the college men, [108-112]
• Honor systems, [13], [109]
• Hopkins, Mark, [144]
• Humor of the collegian, [105-107]
• Humor, sense of in undergraduate, [17]
• Humorous anecdotes, [19-20]
• I
• Ideals joined to action, [145]
• Immigrant question, the, [186]
• Individual character, the need of, [62]
• Individual training, [146]
• Influence of professors with students, [87]
• Influences on student life, [99]
• Irving, Washington, [27]
• J
• Johns Hopkins University, [139]
• Johns Hopkins University, financial statistics, [57]
• Johnson, Owen, [4]
• K
• Kipling, Rudyard, [93], [131], [163]
• L
• Lawlessness in college, [108]
• Learning and investigation, [196]
• Learning to think, [152]
• Lectures, making interesting, [78]
• Literature, new realism in, [159]
• Locke, John, [153]
• Longfellow, Henry W., [40]
• Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, President of Harvard, [31]
• Lowell, James Russell, [46]
• Loyalty to leadership, [150]
• M
• McLean, President of Princeton, [144]
• McKinley, William, [147]
• Mabie, Dr. Hamilton Wright, [152]
• “Mask and Wig, The,” of University of Pennsylvania, [117]
• Mechanical colleges, enrollment in, [56]
• Membership of Greek letter societies, [116]
• Mental resourcefulness, [187]
• Micah, quoted, [127]
• Mission contributions, [25]
• Mission of the university system, [66]
• Missions, origin of the student volunteer movement, [126]
• Missionaries, college graduates as, [26]
• Monroe, James, [147]
• Mount Hermon, Mass., conference resulting in organization of The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, [126]
• N
• Naturalness of the undergraduate, [14-17]
• Need of leaders in the world, [59]
• New college officer needed, [195]
• Northrup, Cyrus, ex-president of University of Minnesota, [76], [121]
• O
• Oxford University, opened to American students by Cecil Rhodes, [70]
• P
• Palmer, Professor George H., [152]
• Parallel courses, first conceded, [69]
• Parental sacrifices, [8]
• Paulding, James K., [27]
• Personality of great teachers, [73]
• Philadelphia, U. of P. settlement house, [128]
• Pierpont, James, [159]
• Pioneer spirit, [167]
• Practical courses of study the tendency, [51]
• Practical education, growth of, [55]
• Pranks of college undergraduates, [106]
• Predominant traits of college man, [11]
• Presidents who were college men, [147]
• Princeton University, date founded, [153]
• Princeton University, financial statistics, [57]
• Princeton honor system, [109]
• Princeton inception of World’s Student Christian Federation, [125]
• Princeton-Yale foot-ball anecdote, [45]
• Professor in the lecture room, [77]
• Provincialism as a result of college traditions, [103]
• Puritan influence on American college life, [149]
• R
• Reasons for going to college, [135-169]
• Reform movements, led by college men, [29]
• Relaxation, the art of, [177]
• Religion and the college man, [23-26]
• Research work in German universities, [70]
• Responsibilities of college fraternities, [119]
• Rhetoric versus ideas, [13]
• Rhodes, Cecil, [70]
• Rossetti, D. G., [161]
• Rules of a New England athletic leader, [14]
• Ruskin, John, [176]
• S
• Settlement house of the University of Pennsylvania, [128]
• “Silence” insubordination at West Point, [94]
• Slang in college, [15]
• Slosson, Professor Elwin E., [32], [57]
• Social organizations in colleges, [112]
• Social service, promotion of, [128]
• Society life among undergraduates, [112]
• Soldiers’ Field, Cambridge, memorial shaft, [45]
• Specialistic training, [63]
• Spencer, Herbert, [178]
• Spirit of college play life, [41]
• Stanford University, financial statistics, [57]
• State institutions, growth of, [57]
• State universities, attendance at, [56]
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, [157], [160], [168]
• Student individualism, [151]
• Student, the “for popular” reasons class, [99]
• Student Volunteer Movement of Foreign Missions, origin of, [126]
• Students, and their relationship to teachers, [74]
• Students’ passion for reality, [12]
• Studies, choice of, [64]
• Studies, elective, [63]
• Systems of learning too bookish, [190]
• T
• Tablet-talk in Columbia commons, [101]
• Taft, William H., [29]
• Teachers, for undergraduates, how to train, [85]
• Teachers, need of, [73]
• Teachers’ relationship to students, [74]
• Teaching a calling, not a means of livelihood, [88]
• Technical institutions, growth of, [55]
• Tennyson, quoted, [76], [164]
• Thackeray, W. M., quoted, [160]
• Town versus gown, [5]
• Training of the Individual, [146]
• U
• Undergraduate life of a century ago, [148]
• Undergraduate life, two divisions of, [93]
• Undergraduate, perversity of, [4-11]
• Undergraduate philosophy, three stages of, [126]
• Undergraduate—his naturalness, [14-17]
• Undergraduate, his passion for reality, [11-14]
• Undergraduate, his sense of humor, [17-20]
• Undergraduate life, influences on, [99]
• Undergraduates and the temperance question, [27]
• Undergraduates as readers, [161]
• Undergraduates, book-life of, [158]
• Undergraduates, gaiety of, [105]
• Undergraduate’s philosophy of life, [122]
• Undergraduate’s philosophy of serviceableness, [130]
• Undergraduates, play life of, [29]
• Uninteresting lectures, [78]
• University of California, Chinese students at, [101]
• University of California, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Chicago, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Georgia, [139]
• University of Illinois, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Iowa, faculty discussion, [86]
• University of Louisiana, [139]
• University of Michigan, chapter houses, [117]
• University of Michigan, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Minnesota, anecdote of ex-President Northrup, [76]
• University of Minnesota, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Pennsylvania, settlement house in Philadelphia, [128]
• University of Pennsylvania, financial statistics, [57]
• University of Virginia honor system, [109]
• University of Wisconsin, financial statistics, [57]
• University system, its mission, [66]
• V
• Value, Prof. Washington, anecdote of, [15]
• Vanderbilt University, [139]
• Vocational versus classical education, [55]
• W
• Walking as a relaxation, [183]
• Ward, Artemus, [31]
• Washington and Lee University Mission students, [26]
• Wesleyan University, [146]
• West Point, an incident at, [94]
• William and Mary College, date founded, [153]
• Williams College, [146]
• Wilson, Woodrow, [32], [77], [121]
• Wishard, Luther D., [125]
• Wister, Owen, [189]
• Wright, Dean Henry P., [115]
• World’s Student Christian Federation, organization of, [125]
• Y
• Yale anecdote, [12]
• Yale Mission in China, [26]
• Yale University, date founded, [153]
• Yale, early foundation of, [159]
• Yale University, financial statistics, [57]

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Many words with hyphens, or without them, have been silently adjusted to be more consistent. For example, instances of ‘Football’ have been changed to ‘Foot-ball’.

Pg [xi]: ‘Aften ten years’ replaced by ‘After ten years’.

Pg [33]: ‘unforgetable sensation’ replaced by ‘unforgettable sensation’.