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Jefferson,  State,  Franklin  &  Marshall  and  other  colleges  and  other 
institutions,  the  members. 
Third. — To  give  that  board  power  to  distribute  the  state  educa- 
tional fund  among  the  state  universities,  colleges,  technical  schools 
and  other  institutions  of  learning,  science  and  art,  on  such  terms 
as  to  numbers  of  teachers  and  students,  standards,  and  other  con- 
ditions as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  college  and  university  council. 
Fourth. — To  make  all  universities,  colleges,  technical  schools  and 
institutions  for  higher  education,  branches  of  the  university  of  the 
state,  retaining  their  names,  organization,  endowments,  etc.,  but 
requiring  annual  returns  of  all  the  details  of  numbers,  income,  work, 
etc.,  on  a  uniform  basis,  with  provision  for  inspection,  audit,  exam- 
ination, so  thorough  that  the  highest  standard  of  efficiency  may  be 
secured  and  maintained,  under  the  penalty  of  losing  any  claim  to 
the  income  from  the  state  education  fund;  the  council  to  have  the 
right  and  privilege  of  approving  and  recommending  the  degrees  in 
course  conferred  by  the  university  and  other  universities  and  col- 
leges of  the  state,  with  power  to  revoke  or  modify  charters  of  any 
affiliated  institution  for  cause. 
Fifth. — The  college  and  university  council  to  have  power  to  con- 
solidate existing  institutions  working  in  one  district  or  multiplying 
the  work  that  could  be  better  done  by  one  strong  institution,  thus 
giving  to  the  state  one  or  more  medical,  legal,  technical  or  other 
schools,  in  lieu  of  an  unnecessarily  large  number  of  small  schools, 
weakened  by  competition,  lessening  standards,  and  not  really  serv- 
ing the  state,  owing  to  insufficient  means  and  inefficient  methods. 
Sixth. — Uniting  with  the  state  university,  libraries,  university 
extension  work,  scientific  and  art  and  technical  schools  and 
museums,  in  such  a  way  that  all  unnecessary  duplication  may  be 
prevented,  and  higher  education  ensured  through  uniform  grants 
form  the  state  educational  fund. 
Seventh. — The  college  and  university  council  to  have  the  inspec- 
tion of  the  normal  schools,  in  such  a  way  as  to  unite  in  close 
sequence  the  methods  of  education,  from  the  public  and  private 
schools,  the  normal  schools,  etc.,  through  the  colleges  and  technical 
schools  and  up  to  the  university. 
Twenty  states  have  made  provision  in  their  constitutions  for 
automatic  collection  and  distribution  of  a  small  part  of  the  revenue 
of  the  State  to  aid  in  the  work  of  education  of  its  people,  and  Penn- 
sylvania should  make  similar  provision  in  its  new  constitution.  It 
