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