Universities and their sons
Subtitle: history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees.
By: Editor-in-chief, General Joshua L. Chamberlain ... Introduction by W. T. Harris...
Contributors: Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923, joint ed.; Smith, Charles Henry, 1842-1933, joint ed.; De Witt, John, 1842-1923, joint ed.; Williams, Jesse Lynch, 1871-1929, joint ed.; Van Amringe, John Howard, joint ed.; Wingate, Charles E. L. b. 1861, joint ed.; Lee, Albert, 1868-1946, joint ed.; Paine, Henry Gallup., 1859- joint ed.
Publisher: R. Herndon company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Harvard University -- History.; Yale University -- History.; Princeton University -- History.; Columbia University -- History.; Universities and colleges -- United States.
Notes: Special editors approved by authorities of the respective universities: Harvard, William Roscoe Thayer, Yale, Charles Henry Smith: Princeton, John De Witt, Jesse Lynch Williams: Columbia, J. Howard Van Amringe. Biographical editors, Charles E. L. Wingate, Albert Lee, Jesse Lynch Williams and Henry G. Paine.
Table of contents: title: I. Preface. Introduction. Universities of learning. Harvard university, 1636-1898. Yale university, 1700-1893. Princeton university, 1746-1898. Columbia university, 1754-1898.; title: II. Administrators and instructors, founders and benefactors.; title: III-V. University sons.