INTRODUCTION
My Dear Boys: This is a complete story in itself, but forms the fourteenth volume of the "Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."
I started this series eleven years ago with the publication of the first three volumes, called "The Rover Boys at School," "On the Ocean" and "In the Jungle." I hoped the stories would be liked by the young folks, but I did not anticipate such a tremendously enthusiastic welcome as was accorded them. The publication of the third volume called for a fourth, "The Rover Boys Out West," and then followed "On the Great Lakes," "In the Mountains," "In Camp," "On Land and Sea," "On the River," "On the Plains," "In Southern Waters," "On the Farm" and then "On Treasure Isle."
For years the three brothers, Dick, Tom and Sam, had attended a military academy called Putnam Hall. But now their school days at that place were at an end, and in the present volume we find them going to college to finish their edu-
