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vi PREFACE

of shorter but more accurate information. The writer has had to work nearly a thousand miles from the University, and to depend npon the courtesy of correspondents for much that one on the spot would easily have obtained. But it is to be hoped that the volume will inspire further labor in the same field. To a number of friends who have offered assistance, and especially to President James, Deans Clark, Greene, Kinley, and Davenport, Mr. George Huff, Mr. P. L. Windsor, Drs. Powell and Phelps, Professors Forbes, Talbot, Rolfe, Ricker, Alvord, Zeitlin, White, and Scott, to three former Trustees, Judge Cunningham, Mr. S. A. Bullard, and Mr. F. M. McKay, to a number of graduates, as Mr. H. M. Dunlap, Mr. C. A. Kiler, and Mr. W. A. Heath, and to the editor of this series, the author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness. Professors Baker and Stoek have, with many of those named above, read parts of the proofs; Dr. Phelps has furnished much material for the appendices, and Assistant Dean Warnock, Mr. H. H. Horner, Miss L. 0. White, and Mr. Lewis Omer have transmitted other material. The author has not, partly in deference to practice in other volumes in the series partly from his sense of the needlessness of it, burdened his pages with many footnote references to sources. In many instances the text itself indicates that the source lies in the reports of the Board of Trustees, the University catalogues, or the reports to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The files of the Alumni Quarterly, of the Ittini and other student publications, those of Twin City and Chicago newspapers, and the Journals of the Legislature, have also been drawn upon. It would usually be undesirable to indicate oral sources of material.