416 Report of the Regents of the Univ. of the State of N. York. 
93 students, and a fund nearly completed (by donation) of 440,000 
as a foundation for professorships; Geneva College with 45. stu- 
dents and a clear fund of about $70,000; Union College at Schenee- 
tady with 223 students; the last class gave 76 graduates; and the 
new university in the city of N. York, with a fund of $100,000. 
The college of physicians and surgeons in the former place, had 
182 students, during the last year, and the college of physicians and 
surgeons of the Western District at Fairfield, had at the last session 
20% students. ‘There are now in the State 59 academies under the 
Regents, with 4188 pupils, and receiving from the literature fund 
$10,000, shared among 2,399 students; whereas in 1819 there were 
but 30 academies that reported themselves; they contained 2,218 stu- 
dents and received but $2,500 of the literature fund distributed 
among 638 students. ‘The mathematical and physical sciences are 
more fully cultivated in the academies than literature and the moral 
sciences; this is -attributed to the actual condition and wants of the 
country, but the state government is impartial on this subject, for the 
public money is distributed equally to pupils in all the branches of 
learning whether classical, moral or physical. It is a most interest- 
ing fact that there are at school 500,000 children, one fourth of the 
population of the state, including all between 5 and 16 years of age, 
except only 7,428. ' 
This state has, wisely, made it an indispensable condition of afford- 
ing its aid to common schools, that those interested shall aid them- 
selves. In Connecticut, where the interest of a million and a quar- 
ter of dollars is distributed among the children of a population of 
about 300,000 persons, no such condition is annexed to the recep- 
tion of the public money, which is consequently much less beneficial 
than it ought to be. 
The academies of Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, and of Can- 
andaigua prepare instructors for the common schools; the former 
furnished, last year, 80 teachers, and itis thought that the academies 
of the state might furnish 1000 teachers annually. The academies 
have “convenient edifices, in some cases large permanent funds, 
valuable libraries and philosophical apparatus, worth, in the whole 
$500,000.” The buildings are worth from $1000 to $90,000 for 
each establishment. ‘The meteorological results obtained at these 
academies scattered over a territory which touches at once the At- 
lantic, the great lakes, and the St. Lawrence, are valuable, and must, 
in time, present the most important results, of which we may hereaf- 
ter give some specimens. 
