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and Johns Hopkins?^* Again there is a 

 difference of opinion of 500 per cent. 



Or, looking at the expenditure per stu- 

 dent per year for instructional salaries; 

 which are right, Syracuse and Minnesota 

 at $63 and $68 or Columbia and Johns 

 Hopkins at $280 and $325, respectively?" 

 Again 500 per cent, difference. 



In fact, the only uniformity appears to 

 he in the difference of 500 per cent. 

 Surely, our institutions can not vary as 



" Data for Stanford appear to need modification. 

 $365,000 includes appropriation for administra- 

 tion, library and instructional staffs, 1907-8. 

 Annual register gives 1,751 students and 218 staff, 

 1907-8. Excluding assistants, average salary 

 $2,367; including assistants (as above), about 

 $1,500. 



"The figure of $510 for Stanford includes ex- 

 traordinary rebuilding expenses as well as sinking 

 fund. 



"In the Transactions of the Commonwealth 

 Club of California, October, 1907, Assistant Treas- 

 urer Crothers, of Stanford, gives the instructional 

 salary expenditure per student, 1907-8, as $176.51. 



much as these figures seem to indicate— or 

 do they? 



Coming to the last column of our table, 

 obtained by dividing the instructional 

 salary expenditure reported, by the re- 

 ported number of members of the staff, is 

 an average salary of $274 per year, as 

 given by Temple College (by the way, 

 what is Temple College?) about right? 

 Are Northwestern, Minnesota, Toronto, 

 Syracuse, Cornell right at $835, $867, 

 $881, $904 or $1,007, respectively? Or 

 are Columbia and Chicago, at $2,050 and 

 $2,400, more near a proper standard? 



It is such inquiries as these which are 

 inevitably raised by the interesting and 

 valuable data given in the reports of the 

 Cai-negie Foundation. And along this 

 line of interesting and valuable data 

 should be included the following table 

 from the annual report of the treasurer 

 of Yale University. 



We are just at the beginning of making 

 a real study of the economics of our higher 



