The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-22
FIRING LINE DRILL. CAMPAIGN UNIFORM

the great results OF this impulse has
been the advanced position the United
States has taken and holds in scientific
agriculture.
IL Is twenty-five years since the gov
ernment bureau of education for the
gathering Of statistics and generally
promoting the cause of education was
established. and incalculsble good has
resulted, especially under the wise
guidance of DIR. Harris, the present
commissioner. Thus II will be noted
that there have been many influences
al work. some of them governmental in
character for the strengthening and
unifying OF the cause OF higher educa-
ton I'm the United States. Among the
most important were those by which,
when the great northwest Was opened
20 settlement the different states ns-
slowed their names and generous en-
GowMSlts upon universities founded at
the outset of their statehood. Many OF
these colleges now rank among the
highest I'm the land and have been an
uplifting influence for the national
good ever since their foundation. IL
might seem somewhat invidious to
specify any particular college or uni
versity that has forged to the forefront
cannot be ignored. But whether they
belong TO the early New England group
which was founded at the cost of 80
much hardship. TO the great state
group" so wisely planned alb initio TO
the personally endowed group. like Cor
nell Johns Hopkins. Leland Stanford.
etc. or 10 the ecclesiastical group. like
Chicago. Evanston. Brown, ETC., all
have combined 10 make for the highest
and best I'm our national life.
coLLEGEs IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH
MORE THAN 1000 STUDENTS JANUARY. 1902
Students
Founded. (abouO.
lSy3-Armour institute. Chicago. ....... l. 000
lSGy--Boston university. Boston........ ], $50
Central university. Danville. KY. $50
lS47-ColiSge City of New York.. 2. .i2G
lI54-Columbia university. New York. 1896
lS2l-Columbian university, Washing
ton ..,.......,........,....... 4l5
| lS6S-Cornell university. Ithaca, N. Y. 2.9SO
lS9l-Drake university, Des Moines.
Ia ..'.................... i, t6i
1S4S-Girard college. Philadelphia 49,. 1.693
lS6s-Hampton institute, Virginia. -. LOCI
l6S6-Harvard university. Cambridge,
Mass. Observation-Disclosures. 5.l2i
lSj0-lllinois Wesleyan university.
Bloomington, III ................ fi2l
lS20-Indiana university. Bloomington.
Ind. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Ils7
lS6S--lowa state college, Ames. Ia, 1,l60
lS5S--kentucky university, Lexington.
Ky. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1, los
lS9l-Leland Stanford university, Palo
Alto. cai....................,. 1873
lS65-Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
nology. Boston .................. / ,430
lS3l--New York university. New York
city ,...."..................... 1921
lS5l-Northwestern university. Evans
ton. III. ...s................... 629
lSS3-Oberlin college. oberlin. O........ 1851
H12-ohio State university. colum-
bus. o.. ...,.....,............... l.4s5
iAi-ohio Wesleyan university, Del
aware, O. ........................1. !. s5s
lSSi-Pratt institute. Brooklyn,........ 3.l2l
lI46-Princeton university Princeton.
n. j. ......................., 1,340
lS1f-Purdue university. Lafayette
Ind. ........,.......,. .,.......,..,.. 1866
IS75-smith female) college. North
ampton, Mass. .,.,..,.......,.... LOi3
lSi7-State University OF Iowa. Iowa
city .................. ................. i.5i2
lSn-Syracuse university, Syracuse,
n. Y. ........................... 1900
lS34-Tulane university. New Orleans. i.lIj
lSsl-Tuskegee institute, Tuskegoe.
Ala. ............. ................ 1853
ley Cal..,..,.,,............ 293s
iS9i-Unversity OF Chicago. Chicago. $500
1879 University of Cincinnati. Ohio. I,2S7
lS0l--Cniversity OF Georgia, Athens. q. J. 994
1863 University Of Illinois. Urbana . g. 900
1S6G-Unversity of Kansas. Lawrence l. $50
lS37-Universty of Michigan. Ann Ar
-. Dor 49,. .,............,..:,...,. asOo
iS6S-Unversity OF Minnesota. Mime
apolis ..................o....... 1850
1870 University of Missouri Columbia /, ,02l
l7S5-Unversity of Nashville. Nash
vile, Tenn. .,........,,.,......... $50
iS6o-University Of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2.25s