TABLE 44.-Statistics of State universities for 1886-87. Professional schools. 3 0 1 3 0 0 48 651 25 13: 98 22 292 22 32 3 30 10 139 9 : 0 343 22 369 14 11 95 : 11 33, 170 9 10 16 11 15 212 528 35 12 13 14 : 63,500 100,000 7,000 13, 089 20, 089 0 0 87,593 169 0 10,000 500,000 175,000 9,000 4, 012 33, 700 46,712 34 18, 083 318, 313 13,244 7,250 20, 494 4 72, 811 948,000 544, 152 29, 58164, 076 51, 500 55, 141 200, 298 338 Total receipts from other sources. Total income. Total amount of benefactions. Total number of degrees conferred in course at last commencement. COLLEGES OR COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENTS. Table 45 presents the summarized statistics of 361 colleges or collegiate departments. Of these, 248 report distinct preparatory departments with 26,550 students. There are, in addition, 21 colleges known to have preparatory departments, but which have not made separate reports of the same. The total of students in these is 3,507, or less than 9 per cent. of the sum total (viz, 43,474) reported in all collegiate departments. The value of grounds, buildings, and apparatus is reported from 304 colleges, the amount being $45,948,778; 206 colleges report productive funds to the amount of $44,416,188. Of this sum, $1,136,946 is not included in the reported income from productive funds, viz, $2,655,081. On the other hand, a very small proportion of the income, viz, $15,500, is realized from funds not stated. The comparison of Tables 47 and 48, and the tables of professional schools, viz, 58, 61, and 63, with the one before us, will show that distinction is not always made between the funds of separate departments of the same institution. This is true also of State appropriations (Column 20). The larger proportion, however, of both these amounts is devoted to the service of the undergraduate work. The number of institutions richly endowed is small; only 29, or about 14 per cent. of those reporting the item, have income from funds aimounting to $25,000 or upwards. Of this number, 14 are either State universities or are included in the universities (Table 43), while of the remaining 15 all but 7 comprise one or more professional schools. The State appropriations reported for the year amount to $911,124. Of this sum, $678,907 went to State and Territorial universities, and the balance, $232,217, was divided between thirteen colleges. The total income reported from 275 colleges was $7,475,200. Of this sum, 36 per cent. was derived from productive funds, 26 per cent. from tuition fees, 12 per cent. from State appropriations, and 26 per cent. from all other sources. The numerical strength of the teaching force and the number and classification of students are shown in Columns 9-14. As an index of power and resources, these numbers must be relatively considered. In a new country, in a sparsely settled or a poor country, a few professors and a small body of eager students may be the sign of high purpose and the promise of large results. In any community a college, small as to the number of its students, but well equipped as to teachers and material resources, is a power which cannot be spared and which cannot be supplied by more imposing institutions. The full discussion of the statistics in the columns indicated requires a consideration of details that cannot be attempted here; it may be noted, as indicating the lines within which the discussion might be pursued, that 192 of the colleges tabulated report less than 100 collegiate students. Of the remaining 169, there are 145 colleges reporting from 100 to 300 students, 20 from 300 to 500, 3 from 500 to 800, and one above 800. Comparisons between colleges with respect to the ratio of professors to students are apt to be misleading, since many colleges that report preparatory departments or affiliated professional schools have a combined faculty for all. The number of colleges reporting only college work is less than 20 per cent. of the total number. The number of endowed professorships tabulated (Column 11, Table 45) emphasizes the need of increased funds for this important purpose. The 421 reported are distributed among 96 colleges. As to their value, which is the matter of chief importance, it is difficult to secure information, although it might naturally be supposed that the published statement would be the means of inducing larger contributions for this purpose. Some idea of the sum necessary to put the highest order of teaching service upon a free and secure footing may be gathered from the statement of the endowment funds of Harvard University, for which the Office is indebted to the president, Dr. C. W. Eliot. At the request of Dr. Edward Mussoy Hartwell, associate in physical training, Johns Hopkins University, an inquiry as to the provision for physical training was included in the form addressed to colleges of arts and sciences. The replies show great variety of provision and widely different views as to the purposes and the importance of the training. The colleges and universities reporting a gymnasium for the use of students, or military training as a part of their course, or both of these provisions, are presented in the following table:* 1 See p. 667. Yale University was accidentally omitted. In his report for 1887 President Dwight calls attention to the movement for the erection of a new gymnasium. |