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economy. The amount expended cannot be said to 

 be an inordinate sum for a modern University to have 

 spent on scientific buildings and equipment. Yet even 

 this expenditure would have been impossible without 

 external help. 



The cost of the maintenance of the buildings erected 

 and of the very inadequately paid staffs, now presses 

 on the limits of the available income; and it is con- 

 tended that but little more can be attempted for many 

 years, if ever, without external aid. We will proceed, 

 then, to a rough analysis of the resources of the Uni- 

 versity and colleges, and of the allotment of these 

 resources. Before doing so, however, it may be well 

 to state that the colleges provide adequately, but not 

 extravagantly, for the teaching of classics and mathe- 

 matics, for elementary teaching in many other subjects, 

 and for individual assistance to the student and super- 

 vision of his work in the subjects taught in the Uni- 

 versity. The collegiate system also ensures a close 

 contact and intercourse between teacher and student 

 not otherwise or elsewhere attainable. The Uni- 

 versity, in its teaching aspect, may be regarded as 

 an organization for providing instruction in all those 

 branches of knowledge the teaching of which cannot 

 be economically undertaken by the colleges. Thus, 

 for the teaching of science, and for the provision of 

 costly laboratories, the University is responsible ; and 

 the higher and more specialized teaching in most other 

 departments is also provided by the University. The 

 ancient endowments are, in the main, college endow- 

 ments ; but the history of the development of modern 

 subjects is also the history of the development of the 

 University; and it is the University rather than the 

 colleges which is at present in need of substantial 

 financial help. But to suppose that the colleges do 

 not heartily co-operate in the University teaching 

 would be erroneous; at the present time one college 



