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TABLE IX — continued 

 Data concerning Partial List of Institutions in which Annual Expenditure for Instructing Salaries 



-" Interest at 5 per cent, on $500,000 additional endowment will be available in 1909. 

 -' Entitled " associate professors." 

 == Catalogue for 1906-7. 

 ^ Exclusively in college. 



^ Including payments of students for board. 

 ^ Entitled " adjunct professors." 



'^ Catalogue does not separate the students in the department of music, of art and of physical 

 culture from the students in the college. 



^ Including Bexley Hall, the theological seminary. 

 ^ Also board, apartments and laundry. 



find mucli better instruction in near-by col- 

 leges, or high schools, where the teaching 

 staff is stronger, the facilities better, and 

 the temptations to low standards are not 

 present. In some parts of the union, col- 

 leges which are only high schools are ful- 

 filling a most useful educational function. 

 It might well be considered by these latter 

 colleges, however, whether it would not be 

 better for education in general, and more 

 dignified on their part, for them to dis- 

 continue granting the college degrees, and 

 frankly call themselves high schools or 

 academies or junior colleges. 



At an early date the foundation hopes 

 to present a thorough study of the institu- 

 tions of higher learning in several states 

 from the point of view of the area, popula- 

 tion, material resources and probable ex- 

 pansion of each state. There are states 



whose territorj^ is so great or which are so 

 divided by natural barriers that duplicate 

 institutions may be justified, just as there 

 are states whose citizens are justified in 

 thinking more in terms of the future than 

 of the present. All these things should be 

 taken into account in estimating the field 

 of higher education within a single state. 

 Occasionally in this paper figures will 

 be given and comparisons made which 

 might be considered to imply criticism of 

 the internal administration of institutions. 

 It must be remembered in this connection 

 that there has been but little study in com- 

 parative college economies. It would seem 

 that colleges and universities have man- 

 aged their finances and drawn up their 

 budgets with slight knowledge of similar 

 problems in other colleges and universi- 

 ties. Data on this subject were not easily 



