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Colleges In the United States.

'olatiSlFS Oh puOlc schools are to be had
without difficulty. They arc brought for
ward prominently in the animal messages
OF Governors, are condensed continually for
newspapers. and are scattered broadcast over
the nation in essays on education. But the
statistics Of American Colleges are less COM
mon. We shall cndcavor, therefore, par
TALLY to supply the deficiency.
The Auutsr Of Colleges in the ITnitcd
States is one hundred and eighteen, an av-
erage of nearly four for every State. Of
these, fourteclf are in New England, thirty
eight in the Middle States, thirty six in the
South and Southwestern States, and thirty
in the West. The oldest is Harvard, at
Cambridge, Mass, A. d. 1896; the next,
William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Va,
which dates from A. ID. 1902; and the
third, Yale, at New Haven, Connecticut,
which was established A. ID. 1900. Ofthc
principle Colleges in the Middle States, that
ut Princeton, New jersey, originated A. D.
l745; the University Of Pennsylvania, A..
ID. 1856; Jefferson College, at Cannons-
burg, Pennsylvania, A. d. 1902; Mount ST.
Mary's, at Emmetsburg, Maryland, A. d,
1890; and the University of Virginia, A..
D. 1870. In the West, the most flourish
ing College is the University of St. Louis,
founded A. d. 1882.
The number Of Students in these one
hundred and eighteen Colleges is about
twelve thousand. The largest number on
the roll of any one College in s5t was 466,
the number attending the University of Vir-
glnia. The number at Yale, however, was
nearly as great, being 433. Harvard had
$50, Princeton 225, the University of North
Carolina 27O, and Brown University, at
Providence, Rhode Island, 252. The larc-
est library belongs to Harvard, which Col
lege has $4,000 volumes Yale has the
next largest, containing $4,000; and Brown
University the next, $4,000 Bowdoin, at
brunswick, Maine, has $4,000 ;eDartmouth,
Hanover, New Hampshire, 81, 900; George
town College, at Georgetown, District Of Co
lumbia, $4,000; and the South Carolina
College, lat Columbia, South Carolina, o.
900. sevorM of the Western Colleges,
considering their youth, have splendid IL
brafics. Thus Marietta College, in Ohio,
has $4,000 volumes, and the University ol
st. Louis, $4,000. In these estimates, the
volumes in the students libraries.,as we'll as
those in the college library proper, are in
cludcd.
The cost of education varies at different
Colleges. At Harvard, the total expenses
of room rent and tuition are ninety dollars
annually; and the cost Of board is from
seventy to ninety dollars inFaddition; ma
king an average, with washing, wood and
lights, of two hundred dollars. The ex-
penses at Yale, averaged in similar man.
ner, may be estimated at about the same
sum, as may also those atPripceton. Bow.
doin, Dartmouth, Brown University, Am.
herst and Williams, are cheaper, ranging
from one hundred and twenty-five to one
hundred and fifty dollars. The University
of Virginia costs each student about one
hundred and twenty-five dollars; while that
of the Western Reserve costs less than half
or only about one hundred. In these esti.
mates, clothing, books and pocket money
are not included. *. -
Besides these one hundred and eighteen
colleges proper, there are forty four theolog
ical schools in the United States, about sew
kenteen law schools and about forty medical
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