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maintain the Towne Engineering School, and the Wharton School 

 of Finance and Economy, and the Zoological and Dental and Veter- 

 inary Schools, and a long list of endowed Professorships and Fel- 

 lowships and Scholarships and prizes. With all these, and the other 

 resources of the university, there is still an annual deficit which 

 must be met. To do so would require an additional endowment 

 sufficient to provide an income of half a million dollars to meet the 

 needs of the university. How to provide this is a question that taxes 

 the university authorities and exacts time, thought and anxiety of 

 provost, trustees, faculty and alumni, when they ought to be free to 

 give attention to the work of instruction and to raising the standard 

 of education in all its departments. 



Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Montana. Wisconsin, are among the west- 

 ern states which have state universities. In their state constitutions 

 provision is made for an automatic assignment of a small part of 

 the state taxes for their support. Thus all appeal to the state legis- 

 lature for support is made unnecessary. In Wisconsin, and in many 

 other universities, colleges, etc., the United States Land Grant is 

 made part of the endowment of the state university, and for agri- 

 cultural and technical schools. Iowa has recently put all its educa- 

 tional institutions under a single governing board. All the western 

 universities have out of the increasing wealth and revenues of their 

 states provided incomes growing in proportion to their needs, and 

 their activities keep pace with them. University extension lectures 

 carry their teachers to every part of their state, and every branch 

 of education is fostered under intelligent guidance, with university 

 men spreading the influence for higher and better education. 



A constitutional convention is soon to be called in Pennsylvania. 

 There a plan should be formulated, submitted and discussed for a 

 reorganization that may strengthen institutions of higher education 

 in Pennsylvania. The plan and method of securing automatically 

 a portion of the state revenue for the purpose of education are now 

 in force in twenty one states, so that there is little novelty in the 

 idea, for it has been in practical operation in all of them, with vari- 

 ous differences, and yet almost vmiformly successful results. Only 

 recently, in acknowledging a paper on German Universities, that 



