The present study traces the influences of women students, and the "woman question," on Western Reserve College during its most critical period of transformation during the Gilded Age. In addition, I also aim to build a second, parallel story: the creation of one of the pioneer coordinate colleges for women in the United States: the…

Chapter XXI of volume 2 covers St. Louis Exposition presentations by U.S. colleges and universities, while Chapter XXII includes foreign countries' presentations. Subsequent chapters provide discussion and statistics on length of teachers' service; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical…

Volume 2 addresses German school courses of study, a report on the Chilean Education Congress and Exhibit, U.S. and foreign education necrology for 1902, and profiles of education benefactors and others who have devoted their lives to education. Chapter XXX's miscellaneous educational topics include remarks on education in America, a good urban…