72U KKPOUT OK OFFICE OF PLXI'KKIMKNT STATIONS. 



Institute, ami the siuiillcst (!i^'J,(»(»5.4!») by the Delawure State (\)llogG 

 for Colored Students. The average total income per student was $88; 

 that of the white eolleoi's was $178 — nearly twice as nuich. 



The ecpiipmont of these institutions is \alued at neaily |>2, 000,000, 

 of which ()7 per cent is represented l)y ])uildin»is. 'I'he approximate 

 total value of farms and o-i-ounds is ^yiH), ()(»(); of apjjaratus, >i^41,4(>(); 

 of mai'hinery, $83,300; of libraries, $80,400, and of live stock, $27,()00. 

 More than half of the live stock is owned by one institution — the 

 Jlanipton Institute. That these institutions are oainino* in wealth is 

 shown by the fact that more than 8 per cent of their total e((uipm(Mit 

 has been added during- the past fiscal year. And j^et, with two-thirds 

 as many students as the land-grant colleges for whites, these insti- 

 tutions have an ecpiipmcnt valued at less than one-third that in the 

 colleges for whites. 



The total iniml)er of students in the colleges and schools for negroes 

 in 1902-8 was (5,080; the mim))er of graduates, 422; the number of 

 degrees conferred, 119; the number of instructors, 846. There were 

 14,4 students for each graduate;, 51 students for each graduate from a 

 degree course; 17.6 students for each instructor. In the colleges for 

 whites in these States there were 9,171 students; 608 graduates; 608 

 degrees; 15 students for each graduate; 15 students for each gradimte 

 from a degree course, and 14.4 students for each instructor. In material 

 equipment then — income, buildings, land, apparatus, machinery, and 

 number of instructors — the colleges for whites are relatively much 

 ])etter off than those for negroes. On the other hand, the latter insti- 

 tutions graduate a larger percentage of those enrolled than do the 

 former. 



The statistics show that 71 per cent of the students in the negro 

 institutions were in the preparatory courses and only 12 per cent in 

 the collegiate courses. But of the graduates of these institutions only 

 28 per cent received bachelors' degrees, and, furthermore, 269 (nearly 

 86 per cent) of the students reported as being in collegiate courses 

 were in attendance at an institution which is admittedly a secondary 

 school and grants no degrees; so it is safe to assume that not more 

 than three or four per cent of the students in the land-grant colleges 

 for negroes were in four-j^ear courses leading to bachelors' degrees. 

 This, in itself, is not to be taken as an unfavorable criticism of the 

 institutions, except in so far as the figures are slightl}^ misleading, for 

 it is known that much of the most useful work done by them is done 

 in the secondary and special courses; but it is an indication of the 

 grade of instruction that must be provided for nearly all of the people 

 served in these colleges and schools. 



INlost of these institutions are doing their utmost to meet the real, 

 most urgent, and most immediate needs of the young people within 



