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nate education from the primary school to the highest technical and 

 scientific and classical and collegiate and professional training. 



Such an example and that of twenty other States all point to 

 the best way of meeting the general demand for a more regular 

 and thorough public provision for advanced education, not through 

 appeals to legislatures, to be subject to all the risks of overtaxed 

 public bodies, but by a constitutional provision for a fixed, though 

 small, percentage of the income of the State to be set apart for 

 higher education and for all branches of education that ought to be 

 maintained at the public expense, to be expended through the college 

 and university council, made up of state officials and representa- 

 tives of universities and colleges and institutions of advanced scien- 

 tific and technical education. Established by law in 1895, it only 

 needs increased power to do its best work. 



Well directed public bounty, as President White says, stimulates 

 private bounty. Generous men and women, seeing that the cur- 

 rent needs of such institutions were provided by state revenue, would 

 gladly give freely and largely for such special additions as ma}' 

 appeal to them. The alumni of universities will find new inspira- 

 tion for their activity in giving, advising, and encouraging the 

 growth and prosperity and advancement of their alma mater. 

 Thus, nation, state, alumni and individual grants and gifts would 

 be united to strengthen state institutions and enable them to give 

 the highest literary, scientific and industrial instruction. 



The same trend of educated opinion is found in other publication 

 of the highest authority. In the 44th annual report of the Smith- 

 sonian Institute, that for 1889, Professor Herbert B. Adams's paper 

 on the state and higher education gives the strongest facts and 

 arguments in support of state aid. He points out that in colonial 

 days Maryland began her educational history by paying a tobacco 

 tax for the support of William and Mary College in A'irginia. \'er- 

 mont appropriated a township of land for Dartmouth College in Xew 

 Hampshire. New Haven sent corn to the support of Harvard. In 

 later times Michigan gave to the university one twentieth of a mill 

 tax on every dollar of taxable property: Wisconsin one eighth of a 

 mill; Nebraska three eighths of a mill; California one tenth of a 



