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money may conveniently be deferred for the moment ; 

 but it may be stated that the sum spent on scholar- 

 ships finds, inside the University at least, many critics. 

 The expenditure on scholarships is undoubtedly, how- 

 ever, in the main, a fulfilment of the intentions of their 

 founders, and, if we may judge by the recent expendi- 

 ture of County Councils, is in accordance with public 

 feeling. After deduction of fellowships and scholar- 

 ships, there is left of the corporate income a sum of 

 ;^7o,ooo. Of this sum, ;^32,ooo,* or nearly one-half, is 

 paid as a direct contribution to the University; but, 

 as will be seen immediately, the colleges contribute to 

 the University in many other ways. Of the ;^38,ooo 

 remaining, ;£'4,ooo goes to supplement the Tuition 

 Fund of ;^S2,ooo received from the students as fees ; 

 the sum of ;^56,ooo so obtained is applied to the 

 provision of college and University lecturers. A 

 large proportion of these fees is paid to the scientific 

 departments of the University ; and of the fees 

 so paid the greater part is assigned as a contribu- 

 tion to the maintenance of the several depart- 

 ments, and not, directly at least, to the payment of 

 lecturers. 



Deducting the sum of ;£'4,ooo, contributed by the 

 colleges to the Tuition Fund, we have left over of the 

 corporate income a sum of ;£'34,ooo, or about ;^2,ooo 

 per college, available for the payment of college 

 officers and servants, the expenses of the college 

 libraries, printing, and other expenses. If, then, 

 it can be shown that the ;£'78,ooo spent on the 

 fellowships is not extravagantly allotted — and of this 

 more below — it is clear that the colleges can contribute 

 but little more than they do at present to the Uni- 

 versity teaching. 



An idea of the serious effect of the fall of agricultural 

 rent on the college incomes may be gathered from 

 * Including about ;^i 0,000 capitation tax. 



