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