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receipts of over three million dollars with a 

 net income available for current expenses of 

 about a million and a half. Several other 

 state-aided institutions are in the million- 

 dollar income class. These include the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, which had an income of 

 $1,343,057; Ohio State University, with $1,- 

 011,571; and the University of California, 

 with $1,711,393. The latter had an additional 

 half million from private benefactions. The 

 state of Iowa supports several institutions of 

 college and university rank with a combined 

 income of over two million dollars. Some of 

 the states are exceedingly generous to their 

 colleges and universities, and in such cases 

 the national government's contribution is only 

 a small fraction of the total. Elinois meets 

 the government's $80,000 with nearly two 

 million dollars from state funds, and there are 

 several other states that are similarly liberal. 

 Most of the states give to higher education a 

 greater sum than they receive from the United 

 States government. On the other hand, a few 

 states depend to a considerable extent upon 

 Uncle Sam's bounty. The state of Delaware 

 provided $22,000 last year for Delaware Col- 

 lege, to accompany the $70,000 received from 

 federal funds; in Maryland the state itself 

 furnished $36,000 for the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, against $80,000 received from the federal 

 government; New Hampshire's contribution 

 to the State College was $20,955; and the 

 state of Vermont gave only $26,000 out of a 

 total income of $277,815 reported by the state 

 university, while $80,000 was derived from 

 the United States government and $60,958 

 from private benefactions. In some of the 

 larger state-aided universities, tuition fees 

 from students have become an important fac- 

 tor in the annual income; and others that are 

 to a certain extent public institutions have 

 private benefactions that yield a permanent 

 working revenue. Thus the University of 

 Vermont has considerable endowment; Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, though aided 

 somewhat by state and national government, 

 depends for the bulk of its income upon the 

 students' fees and private funds; and Cornell 

 University received nearly half a million from 



each of three sources, namely, students' fees, 

 productive funds and state appropriations. 



VNIVESSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The legislature of Missouri, at its biennial 

 session, has appropriated for the support and 

 buildings of the University of Missouri dur- 

 ing 1913-14 $1,417,500. Included in this are 

 appropriations of $200,000 towards a library 

 building; $100,000 for a biological laboratory, 

 and $25,000 for a live stock judging pavilion. 

 In addition to the above the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, which is a part of the university, re- 

 ceives $142,000. Of this appropriation $60,- 

 000 is for hog cholera serum; Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, $30,000; county farm 

 advisers, $25,000; soil experiment fields, $20,- 

 000; state soil survey, $12,000, and Corn 

 Growers' Association, $5,000. 



Messrs. Andrew W. Mellon and Eichard 

 B. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, have announced 

 their purpose to erect on the campus of the 

 University of Pittsburgh a laboratory for the 

 department of industrial research to cost not 

 less than $150,000, to equip the same, and 

 provide a fund of $40,000 per annum for the 

 coming five years for its maintenance. This 

 department of the university is under the im- 

 mediate care and oversight of Dr. Robert 

 Kennedy Duncan, the well-known leader in 

 industrial research. 



A HOLDING trust has been formed in Massa- 

 chusetts called the Harvard Mutual Founda- 

 tion. It wiU receive gifts from those desir- 

 ing to leave money to Harvard University, 

 pay 5 per cent, interest to the donor or his 

 immediate heirs during their lives, and at 

 their deaths turn over the principal to the 

 university. The fund starts with $250,000. 

 The foundation is controlled by the univer- 

 sity, in that its trustees will be named by the 

 corporation, and that body will have a cer- 

 tain voice in the management of the trust. 

 The first trustees are the foUovring: Charles 

 Francis Adams, 2d, '88, treasurer of the uni- 

 versity; T. N. Perkins, '91; Arthur Lyman, 

 '83; George U. Crocker, '84; John C. Cobb, 

 Jr., '00; Alexander H. Ladd, '97, and C. H. 

 W. Foster, '81. 



