Variant titles: The Forester of Lake Forest College; The ... Forester of Lake Forest College; The ... Forester. The Stentor did a special double issue v.34, nos. 28-29, June, 1919 to substitute for the Forester yearbook. The 1969 and 1970 Foresters were published as a yearbox. In 1974,the yearbook was titled The last hurrah; in 1975, Waiting for Szabó, in 1976, The enchanted forest, and in 1977, Lake Forest College. The 1978 Forester has volume numbering: v.86 (i.e. 80).

"Lake Forest University ... [is comprised of] six distinct schools as follows: 1. Lake Forest Academy - for boys, 2. Ferry Hall Seminary - for young ladies, Lake Forest College - co-educational at Lake Forest, Ill., 4. Rush Medical College, 5. Chicago College of Dental Surgery, 6. Chicago College of Law at Chicago, Ill."--Colophon, v.2. The yearbook included all the schools from 1892-1897. From 1897, the yearbook did not include the Rush Medical College. After 1902, the Dental School and College of Law were not included in the yearbook. Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy were not included in the yearbook after 1911.

In 1902, the law school became known as Chicago-Kent College of Law. Between 1901 and 1903, Lake Forest Academy became known as Lake Forest School for Boys; 1904 through 1905 called Lake Forest School.

Volumes not published for 1893, 1898, 1904, 1919 and 1920.

Volume designation was used from v.1 (1892)-v.34 (1932); resumed with v.88 (1987).

V.1 (1892) published by the Athenaean and Zeta Epsilon Literary Societies of Lake Forest College; v.2 (1895) published by the Class of '95; v.3 (1896), published by the Junior class of the College Department, [v.4], (1901) published by the class of '01; v.8 (1905)-v.11 (1908), v.15 (1912)-v.23 (1922), v.25 (1924)-v.31 (1930) published by the Junior class of Lake Forest College; v.12 (1909)-v.14 (1911) published by the Junior classes of Lake Forest College, Ferry Hall and Lake Forest Academy; v.24 (1923) published by the students of Lake Forest College.