The fourteen articles here presented first appeared in four issues of the High School Journal from January through October, 1945, and represent the contribution of the Journal to the series of University of North Carolina Sesquicentennial publications. In the main they are factual accounts of the various aspects of the development of secondary education in the South written by educational leaders from schools and colleges throughout the southern states. Taken individually, the papers present little information that is not already generally known or easily ascertained from other published sources. There is, however, a considerable convenience in having summaries of the various topics presented by persons active in their respective fields and from the point of view of a person writing in the 1940's.