ABSTRACT
The history of the professional schools for lawyers, ministers, teachers, and physicians in America is by no means the history of the universities. In the larger universities the student is, in matters of his daily life, as free as the German; but dwelling in college dormitories still remains the most popular mode of living, since it lends a social attraction to academic life. For the American the attraction of academic life is wholly centred in the college; the college student is the only one who lives the true student life. The graduate student always works industriously through the year, but the college student may be one of various types. A college of the higher type will not be a school with a rigid curriculum, but will adapt itself more or less to the individuality of its students. The higher the college stands in the matter of scholarship, so much the more its lecture programme approaches that of a university.
