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money may conveniently be deferred for the moment ; 

 but it may be stated that the sum spent on scholar- 

 ships finds, inside the University at least, many critics. 

 The expenditure on scholarships is undoubtedly, how- 

 ever, in the main, a fulfilment of the intentions of their 

 founders, and, if we may judge by the recent expendi- 

 ture of County Councils, is in accordance with public 

 feeling. After deduction of fellowships and scholar- 

 ships, there is left of the corporate income a sum of 

 70,000. Of this sum, 32,000,* or nearly one-half, is 

 paid as a direct contribution to the University; but, 

 as will be seen immediately, the colleges contribute to 

 the University in many other ways. Of the 38,000 

 remaining, 4,000 goes to supplement the Tuition 

 Fund of 52,000 received from the students as fees; 

 the sum of 56,000 so obtained is applied to the 

 provision of college and University lecturers. A 

 large proportion of these fees is paid to the scientific 

 departments of the University ; and of the fees 

 so paid the greater part is assigned as a contribu- 

 tion to the maintenance of the several depart- 

 ments, and not, directly at least, to the payment of 

 lecturers. 



Deducting the sum of 4,000, contributed by the 

 colleges to the Tuition Fund, we have left over of the 

 corporate income a sum of 34,000, or about 2,000 

 per college, available for the payment of college 

 officers and servants, the expenses of the college 

 libraries, printing, and other expenses. If, then, 

 it can be shown that the 78,000 spent on the 

 fellowships is not extravagantly allotted and of this 

 more below it is clear that the colleges can contribute 

 but little more than they do at present to the Uni- 

 versity teaching. 



An idea of the serious effect of the fall of agricultural 

 rent on the college incomes may be gathered from 

 * Including about 10,000 capitation tax. 



