This proceedings document contains papers presented at the 25th anniversary meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States (CGS); information on the CGS business meeting, notices of awards presentations, copies of the CGS constitution and bylaws, and a CGS membership list. Topics and presenters are as follows: "Current Issues in Scholarship and Graduate Education in Languages and Literature" (Theodore Ziolkowski, Victoria A. Fromkin, and John M. Ellis); "Financing and Managing University Research Equipment" (Keith Kennedy; Ruben Lorenz); "Graduate Education for Teachers (Report of the Wingspread Conference Sponsored by CGS and AACTE)" (Mary Ann Carroll; Dale R. Comstock); "Off-Campus Graduate Education" (Lionel Baldwin); "Data Needs in Graduate Education" (Arthur M. Hauptman); "The Politics of Having Less" (Robert M. Rosenzweig); "Graduate Education In Retrospect" (John C. Weaver; Bryce Crawford); "Graduate Education Now" (Leslie B. McLemore; Elizabeth C.Traugott); "Minorities in Graduate Education--Past-Present-Future" (Sarah Melendez); "International Aspects of Graduate Education" (Victor Li; Norman Peterson); "State and Regional Initiatives in Graduate Education and Research" (William E. Davis; Ann Spruill); "Preparation of the Professoriate: Role of Graduate School" (John D. Kemper; Robert T. Voelkl); "Issues in Animal Research" (Richard C. Simmonds); "The Revised PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" (Charles R. McCarthy); "Redefining the President or Chancellor's Role in Graduate Education" (Charles Young); and "The Role of the Graduate School in Strengthening Undergraduate Education" (James H. Zumberge). Also included is an extract from the proceedings of the 1961 CGS annual meeting entitled "The Establishment of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States." (LPT)