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be upon them, to swarm in such numbers. They must be a cloud of 

 mosquitoes, instead of eagles as they profess; and this becomes evident 

 on further analysis. About one-third aspire to the name of university; 

 and I note one called by that name which has two professors and 

 eighteen students, and another having three teachers and twelve stu- 

 dents! These instances are not unique, for the number of small insti- 

 tutions and schools which call themselves universities is very great. It 

 is difficult to decide from the statistics alone the exact standing of these 

 institutions. The extremes are easy to manage. "Who can doubt 

 that an institution with over eight hundred students, and a faculty of 

 seventy is of a higher grade than those above cited having ten or twenty 

 students and two or three in the faculty? Yet this is not always true; 

 for I note one institution with over five hundred students which is 

 known to me personally as of the grade of a high school. The statistics 

 are more or less defective, and it would much weaken the force of my 

 remarks if I went too much into detail. I append the following tables, 

 however, of 330 so-called colleges and universities: 



218 had from to 100 students. 

 88 had from 100 to 200 students. 

 12 had from 200 to 300 students. 



6 had from 300 to 500 students. 



6 had over 500 students. 



Of 322 so-called colleges and universities: 



206 had to 10 in the faculty. 

 99 had 10 to 20 in the faculty. 

 17 had 20 or over in the faculty. 



If the statistics were forthcoming, and possibly they may exist, 

 we might also get an idea of the standing of these institutions and their 

 approach to the true university idea, by the average age of the scholars. 

 Possibly also the ratio of number of scholars to teachers might be of 

 some help. All these methods give an approximation to the present 

 standing of the institutions. But there is another method of attacking 

 the problem, which is very exact, yet it only gives us the possibilities in 

 the case of the institutions. I refer to the wealth of the institution. 

 In estimating the wealth, I have not included the value of grounds and 

 buildings, for this is of little importance, either to the present or future 

 standing of the institution, as good work can be done in a hovel as in a 



