This history of the University of Rochester at Rochester, New York, has been prepared by Jesse Leonard Rosenberger primarily for those who are in one way or another interested in the university and who wish to know somewhat in detail concerning its peculiar origin; the sound, liberal principles on which it was founded and has been conducted and its development physically and educationally through the first seventy-seven years of its existence. Other persons for whom the volume may have a value are historians and students of higher educational history in America. The index will make the contents readily available for reference purposes.