List of Institutions for the Superior Instruction of Women from which no Information has been Received. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES OF LIBERAL ARTS. The provision for science instruction and for a high order of technical training and the development of university foundations are the most noticeable features in the progress of superior instruction during the past decade. The latter movement manifests itself in two directions, namely, the grouping of undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools under one charter and the extension of university courses of instruction. For the purpose of showing the present status of this movement and of facilitating future comparative studies, Tables 45 and 46 have been added to the statistical scheme for collegiate and professional schools. REMARKS ON TABLES 45 AND 46. A Table 45 presents in a convenient form for study the statistics of twelve foundations, comprising groups of related faculties, schools, or colleges, or engaged chiefly in the work of post-graduate instruction. Their professors number one thousand one hundred and twenty-five, and their students eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-four. small proportion of the students (3 per cent.) are in preparatory departments, reported by two of the institutions. Of the remaining students, 56 per cent. are undergraduates, 6 per cent. in graduate departments, and 38 per cent. in professional schools. In respect to teaching staff, libraries, and all material appliances, these institutions are well equipped. The comparison of Columns 11 and 12 shows an average of one professor to ten students or less in seven cases, while in none does the number of students to a professor exceed seventeen. These ratios can not, of course, be taken as an exact measure of the available teaching force, which depends also upon the character of the instruction as determined by the subject treated and the maturity of the students. Still the numerical relation is an accepted basis for the comparison of institutions, and its favorable indications should not be overlooked. As regards endowed professorships, the eight institutions here tabulated, which report under this head, comprise 19 per cent. of the entire number reported from all colleges of liberal arts. (Vide Table 47, p. 628.) The total income of eleven of these foundations amounts to $2,939,073, derived as follows: From productive funds, 49 per cent.; from tuition fees, 29 per cent; not specified, 22 per cent. These foundations were favored with benefactions to the amount of $934,232. Table 46 presents the statistics of twenty-four State universities. These report a total of nine thousand four hundred and one students and seven hundred and twenty-nine professors. The students are distributed as follows: In preparatory departments, 10 per cent.; in undergraduate departments, 55 per cent.; in graduate departments, 2 per cent., and in professional schools, 27 per cent., leaving 6 per cent. not distributed. The comparison of Columns 10 and 11 shows the relative strength of the universities with respect to teaching staff. In fourteen out of the twenty-four the average of students to one professor ranges from twelve to sixteen; in seven the average is less than twelve, and in three it is more than sixteen, the highest average being twenty-one students to one professor. Omitting the University of Nevada, which makes no report under this head, the total income of the remaining State universities, twenty-three in number, amounted, so far as reported, to $1,974,840. This sum was derived as follows: From productive funds, 36 per cent.; from tuition fees, 10 per cent.; from State appropriations, 38 per cent.; from other sources, 15 per cent. It should be observed that the departments of the universities included in Tables 45 and 46 are tabulated also in the tables to which they respectively belong. In the case of seven of the institutions in Table 45 and sixteen in Table 46, the financial particulars are identical with those reported in connection with the collegiate departments, Table 49. In the case of the remaining universities', the financial particulars represent the total of items distributed in Tables 49, 55, 57, 65, 67, 69. The Tables before us show a total of eight hundred and sixteen resident graduate students2 not in professional schools reported from twenty institutions. They form 91 per cent. of all such students reported in colleges of liberal arts. As regards professional schools, theology has no representation in Table 46; five schools with three hundred and seventy-two students are included in Table 45. Of forty-nine schools of law reported from the entire country (vide Table 67) twentythree are included in the two Tables before us. Their students numbered two thousand four hundred and thirteen, or 66 per cent. of all law students. Of one hundred and twenty schools of medicine (vide Table 69) nineteen are included in the two Tables before us. Their students numbered three thousand and ninety, or 22 per cent. of all medical students reported. The remaining professional students included in Tables 45 and 46 are distributed in dental, pharmaceutical, and veterinary schools. STATE AID FOR STATE UNIVERSITIES. State appropriations, which form the chief source of income for State universities, are affected by many conditions entirely apart from the necessities of the universities and the interests of higher education. For this reason strenuous efforts are made from time to time, by those upon whom the conduct of the universities devolves, to secure legislation that shall put the appropriations upon a fixed basis. The following universities have the benefit of a fixed tax: University of California, a tax of one cent on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation; University of Colorado, tax of one-fifth of a mill on the taxable property of the State; University of Michigan, tax of one-twentieth of a mill; University of Nevada, tax of one-half of a mill on the dollar of taxable property. "The General Assembly of Indiana passed an act in 1883 providing for the permanent endowment of the university by the levy of a tax of one-half per cent, on each one hundred dollars of taxable property, to be collected annually for thirteen years. This fund, it is estimated, will amount to about three-quarters of a million dollars at the end of thirteen years, producing an annual income equal to that now received from all other The regents of the University of Iowa urge the Legislature to cause a tax of half a mill to be levied on the taxable property of the State for the creation of a permanent fund for the university. The board of curators of the University of Missouri are seeking permanent provision in order that the university may be removed from the "pale of politics" and the Legislatures relieved from "constant importunity." The trustees of Ohio State University ask for a tax of "one-twentieth of a mill on the grand duplicate of the State." Viz: Boston University, Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, De Pauw University; and the following State universities: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin. The number does not include eighteen post-seniors and twelve students in the post-graduate course in law at the University of Pennsylvania. In this estimate seventy-five post-graduate students who do not appear to be pursuing courses in advance of the usual college curriculum have been omitted from the sum total. |