700 THE STATE AND HIGHER EDUCATION. 



I'be original university-establishuient cost the State about $400,000. 

 The people of Virginia are proud of their university, and it would be 

 suicide for* any political patty to cut off the yearly appropriation from 

 the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. The State of South Caro. 

 lina was Jeflferson^s model for generous appropriations to the cause of 

 Soilnd learning. She lias given $2,800,000 to that object. Georgia has 

 given $938,000 for the same purpose. Louisiana has given $794,000 

 from her State treasury for the higher education in recent years, and 

 according to the testimony of her own authorities, has distributed over 

 $2,000,000 among schools, academies, and colleges. Texas has spent 

 upon college education $382,000, and has given for higher education 

 2,250,000 acres of laud. The educational foundations, both academic 

 and popular, in the Lone Star State, are among the richest in America. 



Turning now to the Great West, we find that Michigan has given 

 over $2,000,000 to higher education, She supports a university which 

 is as conspicuous in the Northwest as the tJniversity of Virginia is in 

 the South, upon one-twentieth of a mill tax on every dollar of taxable 

 property in the State. That means half a cent on every hundred dol- 

 lars. T'his university tax-rate yielded last year $47,272. Wisconsin 

 pays oue-eighth of a mill tax for her university, and that yields $74,000 

 per annum. Wisconsin has given for higher education $1,200,000. 

 Nebraska is even more generous to her State university. She grants 

 three-eighths of a mill tax, yielding about $60,000 a year. The State of 

 California grants one-tenth of a mill tax, which yielded last year over 

 $76,000. Besides this, the University of California has a permanent 

 State endowment of $811,000, yielding an annual income of $52,000, 

 making a total of $128,000 which the State gives annually to its highest 

 institution of learning. Altogether California has expended upon 

 higher education $2,500,000. The State of Kansas, the central empire 

 of the Great West, gives already its rising university at Lawrence 

 $75,000 a year, <' levied and collected in the same manner as are other 

 taxes." 



It is needless to give further illustrations of State aid to American 

 universities. These statistics have been carefully collected from origi- 

 nal documents by historical students, who are making important con- 

 tributions to American educational history, to be published by the 

 United States Bureau of Education. The principle of State aid to at 

 least one leading institution in each commonwealth is established in 

 every one of the Southern and Western States. In New England 

 Harvard, and Yale, and other foundations of higher learning appear 

 now to flourish upon individual endowments and private philanthropy; 

 but almost every one of these collegiate institutions, at one time or 

 another, has received S*ate aid. Harvard was really a State institution. 

 She inherited only £800 and three hundred and twenty books from 

 John Harvard. She was brought up in the arms of her Massachusetts 

 nurse, with the bottle always in her mouth. The towns were taxed in 



