256 ROSENGARTEN— A COUNSEL OF PERFECTION. [April 17, 



a mill tax for higher education and with and through it to reorganize 

 its institutions of higher education so that they may grow with the 

 growth of the state and with its income and make return in increased 

 work for the state and its people. 



In the college and university council of Pennsylvania the state 

 has a capital piece of machinery for the distribution of the proceeds 

 of a state mill tax for higher education. In that council there are 

 the representatives of the state, the governor, the attorney general, 

 and the superintendent of public instruction, and of the universities, 

 Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Lehigh and Bucknell, and of the colleges, 

 Washington-Jefferson, State, Franklin & Marshall, and an eminent 

 citizen representing the Catholic institutions of higher education. 

 With such men that council could be safely entrusted with power 

 to make a distribution of any sum raised by a mill tax, so that it can 

 be distributed to the greatest advantage of all the institutions of 

 higher education in Pennsylvania. 



The last report of the Superintendent of Education gives a list 

 of six universities, twenty-nine colleges, four law schools, four 

 dental schools, three pharmacy schools, thirteen normal schools and 

 seven technical schools in Pennsylvania. 



The state has created many examining boards for law, medi- 

 cine, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary candidates, osteopathy, account- 

 ants, and boards for the geological and topographic survey, vaccina- 

 tion, health, mining, etc., and all of them might well be affiliated with 

 the college and university council, which could designate university 

 and college experts to carry on the work. 



