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UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION.

CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION NO. 3, 1900.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.

EDITED BY HERBERT B. ADAMS.

No. 28.

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK:

HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

BY

SIDNEY SHERWOOD, PH. D.,

Associate Professor of Political Economy in Johns Hopkins University.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., July 2, 1900.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit for publication the twenty-eighth number in the series of Contributions to American Educational History, edited by Prof. H. B. Adams. The present volume deals with the University of the State of New York and was prepared by Prof. Sidney Sherwood, of Johns Hopkins University, a native of the State and a graduate of Princeton University, who had the assistance of a number of teachers and officers connected with the various institutions described. Part I of this monograph deals with the origin, history, and present organization of the University of the State of New York, which is an executive and not a teaching body, and hence unlike any other American educational institution. This part has been prepared by Professor Sherwood in person, whose official connection with a university and whose careful and scholarly methods well fit him for the task. After the University itself has been described, come a series of chapters dealing with the institutions comprised within it. These chapters have been prepared generally by persons connected with those institutions. A chapter is devoted also to women's colleges, one to professional and technical schools, while an appendix containing an account of the original development of the common schools, by Dr. Andrew S. Draper, is added.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. E. A. HITCHCOCK,

Secretary of the Interior.

W. T. HARRIS,

Commissioner.

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