December 20, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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167 for current expense, whereas the State 

 University of Michigan, the State College 

 of Agriculture and the State School of 

 Mines, three institutions which correspond 

 to Minnesota's State University, had $1,- 

 314,928 available in 1905. Wisconsin and 

 Illinois in 1905 and Iowa and Missouri in 

 1906 had available the following amounts: 

 Iowa, $376,000 to be expended in educating 

 1,815 students; Missouri, $571,776 to edu- 

 cate 2,139 students; Wisconsin, $714,138 

 to educate 3,151 students, and Illinois, 

 $737,527 to educate 4,100 students. 



The cost of educating a student in the 

 various state institutions varied from $139 

 to $267. 



Columbia, Chicago and Pennsylvania 

 spent during 1905 or 1906, as the case 

 might be, between $1,150,000 and $1,766,- 

 000 per annum, whilst Harvard for 1905 

 spent over $3,000,000 for all purposes. 



During the legislative sessions of 1905-6 

 the various state universities became very 

 active and their alumni and other inter- 

 ested individuals brought pressure to bear 

 upon legislatures with very gratifying re- 

 sults. Not all of the exact figures can be 

 obtained but by correspondence, and from 

 other sources some approximate ideas of 

 moneys available have been gained. 



Illinois.— li will be seen that a total state 

 appropriation of $2,207,790 was made to 

 cover the biennial period beginning July 1, 

 1907. This does not include funds derived 

 from the federal grant of $25,000 per an- 

 num, receipts from students' fees and 

 sources other than state grants. 



lotva, which is a strictly agricultural 

 community, and whose population is ap- 

 proximately 2,210,000, had available for the 

 year 1906 a total of $550,000 derived from 

 building tax, permanent fund, interest on 

 endowment, fees and state appropriation. 

 Its enrollment for the year was 2,100 stu- 

 dents. Its permanent endowment fund, 

 realized from the sale of land grants, 



amounts only to $2,240,500. The figures 

 for 1907-8 were not yet available. 



Wisconsin. — G&visln particulars concern- 

 ing state university expenditures in 1905 

 have already been quoted and later ap- 

 proximate statistics have been furnished by 

 prominent members of the faculty. She 

 has a two sevenths of a mill tax, which is 

 expected for the years 1907-8 to bring in 

 over $600,000 per annum, which, with other 

 funds, will make available for university 

 expenditures" for the next biennial period 

 over one million dollars per annum. This 

 includes a building fund yielding $100,000 

 per year for the next five years. 



Nebraska has a population of approxi- 

 mately one and one half millions, with 

 available state university funds amounting 

 to $590,000 for the coming year. Figures 

 for 1906 you have already considered. 



Michigan has no state university which is 

 comparable with that in Minnesota or Wis- 

 consin, since her school of mines and school 

 of agriculture are separate state institu- 

 tions. The exact figures for the coming 

 biennial period are not available, but for 

 the university proper in 1906 the total ex- 

 penditure was given as $735,464.52, which 

 included appropriations of one fourth mill 

 tax for general university purposes. The 

 students' fees for 1906 amounted to $233,- 

 207.79. For the coming biennial period 

 funds of over $969,000 per annum will 

 be available, owing to the increase of the 

 state tax for university purposes from one 

 fourth to three eighths of a mill. 



Minnesota, whose population is now in 

 excess of two million, has recently received 

 much more generous financial support, for 

 which the alumni association deserves much 

 credit. The university has just completed 

 during the last biennial period (1905-6, 

 1906-7) $874,000 worth of new buildings 

 and equipment which does not include 

 other permanent improvements. She has 

 available for the coming biennial period an 



