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A GREATER GETTYSBURG Granville told the trustees in June 1922, "was really the first agency which succeeded in a large measure in establishing a rating of colleges which was generally recognized." In 1915, after the Association of American Universities twice failed in its efforts to get the United States Bureau of Education on its own authority to publish a classified list of colleges, the bureau agreed to appoint a committee, whose eleven members represented the four regional agencies, the Association of American Universities, the American Medical Association, the Bureau of Education, and several other bodies. The bureau instructed the committee to determine whether it was advisable to establish a national classification of colleges and universities and, if so, to suggest ways to proceed in accomplishing that end. In 1918, after reviewing questionnaires returned by some 250 institutions (including Gettysburg College), this committee (known as the Committee on Higher Educational Statistics) published a list of thirteen suggested requirements for what it called a successful college of arts and sciences. Included were a minimum annual income of at least $40,000; a minimum productive endowment of $250,000; at least fifteen full-time faculty, one-fourth or more with the Ph.D. or equivalent degree; a maximum teaching load of fifteen hours per week; and minimum annual expenditures of $1,000 each for books and periodicals, and for laboratory equipment. One could take these suggested requirements, apply them to the data submitted by the colleges, and do one's own accrediting.427 A year following the publication of this report, the Middle States Association began entering the field of accrediting by adopting its own set of eleven requirements for an acceptable institution of higher learning and establishing a commission to apply them to schools within its geographical area.428 Two years later, in November 1921, but only after encountering vigorous opposition from several quarters, the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education issued its first list of fifty-nine accredited institutions in the Middle States. Selection was made, not following visits by evalua- 427Resources and Standards (1918), pp. 15-17. 428i,wo of the twelve members of the first commission were Gettysburg alumni. Augustus S. Downing (1856-1936) of the class of 1874 was deputy commissioner of education of New York and Luther P. Eisenhart of the class of 1896 was a Princeton professor. 71