1888/09 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edward Thring - Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Uppingham. An Ancient School Worked on Modern Ideas by George R. Parkin with illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Irving R. Wiles
  • Edward Thring by Bliss Carman
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. The Mississippi and Shiloh by John G. Nicolay
  • The Industrial Idea in Education by Charles M. Carter
  • The White Cowl by James Lane Allen
  • Star Tears by Eugene Ashton
  • Doves by E. S. Starr
  • Edward Rowland Sill by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The University and the Bible by T. T. Munger
  • Women Who Go To College by Arthur Gilman
  • Bird Music. Yellow-breasted Chat, Bobolink, and Whip-poor-will by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • Exile by Administrative Process by George Kennan
  • Old Age's Lambent Peaks by Walt Whitman - 8-line poem
  • A Mexican Campaign -- Part 2 of 3 -- by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Poems by John Vance Cheney
  • College Fraternities by John Addison Porter
  • Hard Times in the Confederacy by A. C. Gordon
  • The Mountaineers About Monteagle by Martha Colyar Roseboro
  • Sidereal Astronomy: Old and New by Edward S. Holden
  • Waves and Mist by William H. Hayne

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Modern Collegiate Education
  • Individuality in Teaching

    • Open Letters:

  • Twenty-Five Years After Gettysburg by General R. E. Colston
  • A Just Employer
  • Is the Siberian Exile System To Be At Once Abolished? by George Kennan
  • The Canal at Island No. 10 by John Banvard
  • General Grant and Matias Romero by M. Romero
  • Art Education by W. J. Stillman
  • College Fraternities by Julius H. Seelye
  • Notes on "We-uns" and "You-uns" by George D. Scypes

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • His Mother by Helen Gray Cone
  • Uncle Esek's Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • A Confession by W. J. Henderson
  • To a Poet in "Bric-A-Brac" by Annie D. Hanks
  • A Vis-a-Vis by Frank Dempster Sherman