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
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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
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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
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Undergraduate life of a century ago, 148
Undergraduate life, two divisions of, 93
Undergraduate, perversity of, 4-11
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