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sity,  now  of  Swarthmore,  gave  a  sketch  of  the  history  of  the  pro- 
motion of  higher  education  by  the  state  from  early  times  until  the 
present.  He  gives  forty-five  as  the  number  of  colleges  and  univer- 
sities supported  by  the  state,  and  points  to  seven  representative 
state  universities — California,  Illinois,  Kansas,  Michigan,  Minne- 
sota, Nebraska,  Wisconsin. 
President  Beardshear  of  Iowa  State  College  of  Agriculture, 
said  there  were  64  colleges  or  departments  inaugurated  by  the  Act 
of  Congress  of  1862,  making  land  grants  for  the  establishment  of 
schools  for  mechanical  and  agricultural  instruction. 
Again  at  the  National  Education  Association  meeting  of  July, 
1901,  President  Jesse  of  the  State  University  of  Wisconsin,  read  a 
paper  on  the  "  Function  of  the  State  University."  He  points  out 
the  opportunities  for  collaboration  with  state  boards,  bureaus  and 
commissions,  with  a  view  to  serious  study  of  social  and  economic 
conditions. 
To-day  and  in  and  by  our  own  university  much  is  done  for  the 
state  and  the  city,  but  as  a  matter  of  grace;  make  it  the  university 
of  the  state,  and  state  and  city  would  ask  for  help  as  a  matter  of 
right.  Social  and  economical  and  legal  problems  would  be  attacked 
and  solved.  By  cooperation  with  boards  of  education  and  state  and 
local  superintendents,  the  university  would  help  to  build  up  schools, 
from  primary  to  normal,  by  trained  inspectors,  skilled  examiners, 
lecturers,  practical  teachers.  Colleges  and  higher  technical  schools 
should  be  brought  into  union  with  the  university,  all  working 
towards  the  common  end  and  aim,  the  best  education  of  the  largest 
number. 
The  university  of  the  state  should  be  in  close  touch  with  all  the 
state  boards,  bureaus  and  commissions,  the  geological  survey,  the 
bureaus  of  health,  education,  forestry,  mines,  industries,  all  the 
innumerable  functions  and  activities  of  the  state.  The  university 
should  help  in  the  preparation  of  laws  governing  taxation,  every 
day  growing  more  complex,  and  in  every  form  of  economic  instruc- 
tion, for  the  benefit  of  the  state  in  its  legislation,  and  of  the  plain 
people.  In  Pennsylvania,  mining,  metallurgy,  manufacturing,  for- 
estry, light,  heat  and  power,  are  among  the  living  issues  that  require 
sound  legislation  and  to  prepare  it  should  be  one  of  the  functions  of 
the  university  of  the  state. 
The  United  States  Bureau  of  Education  publishes  annually  a 
Bulletin  of  Statistics  of  State  Universities.    These  include  a  direc- 
