Bureau of Postsecondary Education (DHEW /OE),

ir-4 This history of the higher education activities of the Office of Education falls into seven clearly defined periods discussed in five chapters as follows: pre-1911; 1911 to World War I; World War I and the 1920's; the Cepression years and World War II; and the.post-Wcrld War II years. Various names and assignments of the Office of Education, names and dates of the Commissioners of Education, the chiefs of the Division of Higher Education, and various locations of the 04ice of Education from 1867 to the present are all listed. (Authcr/KE) * Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort'* * to obtain the'best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * Higher Education and th