COLLEGES IN NEW YORK STATE. 391 



Professors or Students. 



Instructors. 



3 Episcopalian, there are, . 24 and 301 



1 Baptist, 9 ... 127 



1 Roman Catholic, 16 ... 110 



3 Presbyterian, 34 ... 589 



The popular support and educational strength in the 

 Universities rest chiefly with the Presbyterians, and 

 after them with the Protestant Episcopalians. 



Two new colleges are also projected at Rochester and 

 Buffalo, but only the medical department of the former 

 has yet come into operation. 



All these colleges, with the exception of the Roman 

 Catholic college of St John s, are bound to present an 

 annual report of their condition as to funds, endowments, 

 fees, pupils, tuition, class-books, &c., to a board called the 

 Regents of the University, which has its headquarters 

 at Albany, and are subject to visitation by the members 

 of this Board. Three of the poorest receive grants from 

 the State, of 3000 or 4000 dollars a-year. This Board 

 of Regents has also under its supervision all the regis 

 tered academies and grammar schools, 188 in number, 

 among which the State divides annually, through these 

 regents, according to the number of pupils taught in 

 each, about 40,000 dollars. These academies are sub 

 ject to visitation, and report annually to the Regents. 

 The Board of Regents, out of all the materials thus 

 obtained, presents a condensed annual report on the 

 condition of all the colleges, medical schools, and acade 

 mies to the Legislature, by which the report is printed 

 and widely circulated. 



Of medical schools there are five in the State, contain 

 ing 34 professors and 744 students. Four of these 

 receive grants of money from the State, and report to 

 the Board of Regents. 



To the members of this Board of Regents it had early 

 occurred or been suggested, that their connection with 



