Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees.

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.