"I could go on and on about the personal, professional and familial connections I have to Temple — a cost-efficient, highly respected institution," said Robert Leiter in reviewing Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World by Temple historian James W. Hilty. "The work qualifies as one of the new breed of coffee-table books — filled with images, but chock-full of text as well. Temple President Ann Weaver Hart states in her foreword that Temple is a quintessential American success story — 'a tutorial exercise that has grown into the 27th-largest university in the nation and the fifth-largest provider of professional education in the United States.'"