Another fine travel guide to the Cambridge colleges.

A story of character, prejudice, and determination at Caius College, Cambridge, in the early 20th century.

One of Cambridge University's great gifts to the world, this service is internationally broadcast from King's College every year at Christmastime.

A charming window into the history of Cambridge collegiate life by a Classicist and fellow of Emmanuel College.

The definitive scholarly history of the origin of the Oxford colleges. Ridiculously expensive.

Harvard University established the first American residential colleges in the 1930s, and a number of other universites (public and private, large and small) have since followed along.

The penultimate chapter of this pictorial history covers the rise of Princeton's residential colleges. It was Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who first proposed the collegiate system in America.

For your college: Light emphasizes the importance of informal student-faculty contact, especially in a residential setting.

Tried and true (well, at least tried) collegiate recipies from the Middle Ages to the present.

Your college should without fail have a record of its birds. (And these are excellent for star gazing, too.)

And the more birds you attract, the more you will have to watch.

Your college's website should be an ever-growing archive of your members' lives.

A college without history is not redeemed from time.