Excerpt from Resources and Standards of Colleges of Arts and Sciences: Report of a Committee Representing the Associations of Higher Educational Institutions Department or the interior, bureau or education, Washington, August 17, Sm: An accurate and comprehensive study of college standards mud resources has been needed for many years. Such a study should jaelp cenega ofiicers in one part of the country to evaluate. Credentials presented by students from institutions in other parts. It should amist parents to select wisely the institutions to which they shall send their children. Above all, it should enable college authorities to compare their own institutions with others and to strive for the most necessary improvements. In 1915, the Bureau of Education secured the cooperation of a committee repmenfing higher educa tional associations for the purpose of making such a study. The results are presented in the accompanying document, which has been prepared by Dr. S. P. Capen, specialist in higher education in this, bureau, who acted as secretary of the committee. They are less complete than could be desired, but nevertheless I believe they will accomplish, in a measure, the object in view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.