PREFACE. INE N the selection and rejection of material for this book, the Editor has been guided by the standards established by the Federal Bureau of Education at Washington. Thus many schools conferring degrees or bearing the name of college have been omitted because they are not recognized as such by the Commissioner of Education. Other institutions of higher learning have suffered omission by reason of the limitations of their charters or the obvious restriction of their training. All theological seminaries, law schools, musical conservatories, academies of art, or colleges of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry; all trade and business schools; all normal and teachers' institutes; schools of languages; summer and night schools, as well as most women's colleges, unless forming an integral part of some recognized university or institute of general learning, have been excluded, notwithstanding their educational merit or reputation. By the same rule, all requests to be included in this issue of the book, that were made by Canadian and other foreign universities, or by colleges conducted under American charters abroad, have reluctantly been denied by the Editor. The reason for this will be readily understood when it is recalled that the schools coming under the above classifications number thousands. In all other cases strenuous efforts have been made to do justice to every school, college, institute, or university authorized to confer collegiate degrees. In pursuance of this aim, the Editor endeavored to enter into correspondence with the presidents, secretaries, or other responsible officers of all American schools of higher learning enumerated in the official reports of the Bureau of Education, or in the lists of colleges printed in the annual summaries of metropolitan journals. Where such efforts failed, recourse was had to the various existing State Reports of Education, to cyclopedias and other available publications. It is to be hoped that future issues of the book will afford an opportunity to atone for all insufficiencies and for any errors of fact or conception. The Editor takes pleasure in returning thanks for the courteous aid rendered him by many college officers and graduates, and in acknowledging his indebtedness to the editors and publishers of the German year-book "Minerva," — to those of the almanacs issued by the New York World and Tribune, — of the "Spirit of the Times"; to the author of "American College Fraternities," and to George H. Emerson, his invaluable helpmate. STONE HOUSE, October, 1896. EDWIN EMERSON, JR., LIVINGSTON, STATEN ISLAND. CONTENTS. PAGE Degrees, 443; College Fraternities, 448; College Colors, 451; Col- lege Cheers and Yells, 453; College Publications, 458; Old Univer- sities, 462; College Politics, 463; University Extension, 464; Statistics of Education, 466; Statistics of Illiteracy, 471. Track and Field, 472; General Records, 476; Games between Col- leges, 482; Intercollegiate Relay Races, 486; Open Intercollegiate Games, 487; Fall Games, 489; International Athletic Contests, 496; Rowing, 497; Lacrosse, 508; Fencing, 508; Intercollegiate Chess, 509; Wheeling, 510; Cricket, 513, Lawn Tennis, 516; Golf, 518; 472 |