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Utah 150,000 



Wisconsin 1,103,029 



Wyoming 84,000 



The same table gives among the man}- private benefactions to 

 those state-aided universities : 



California 566,000 



Nevada 1 50,000 



Cornell 1.307,111 



The records of these 87 state-aided institutions confirm the beHef 

 that private benefactions will continue to supplement in generous 

 measure the state-aided institutions just as these show by their re- 

 sults that they are entitled to individual as well as state help. 



Pennsylvania expended in 1912 for — - 



Department expenses $ 4.972.538.34 



Expense of government 5.390,798.00 



Commissions 407,900.00 



State institutions 3.342,348.33 



Penitentiaries and reformatories 544,378.69 



Semi state institutions 685,750.00 



Educational 8,737,600.00 



Hospitals 2.683,650.00 



Homes and other charitable institutions 368,300.00 



Miscellaneous 1,059,500.00 



$28,192,763.36 



If the appropriations for education were made by the college and 

 university council and those for forestry, mining, etc., by boards or 

 commissions on which were the best experts from the universities 

 and colleges and technical schools and museums, men of scientific 

 attainments, the result would be economy in cost and increased effi- 

 ciency. 



It ought not to be difficult to fix a mill tax for higher education 

 and to devise a plan by which it should be automatically collected 

 and set apart and distributed by the college and university council 

 in such a way as to do the greatest good to the greatest numbers, and 

 at the same time invite a continuance and increase of the indi- 

 vidual mimificence so characteristic of Pennsylvania. 



A bill was presented to the Legislature of Pennsylvania in March 



