Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-18

pharmacal students, are these: Four hun
dred and eighty-two are engineers. 400
are teachers, about one-fifth of them in
college positions; 227 are LAWYERS. 1o6
nprarlans, II draughtsmen. 115 architects
~ are merchants. SO physicians, 81 far
mers. u chemists railway superin-
tendents, Z artists, 6 Judges. cierpv-
men. II are in manufactures, 81 in
banking, 26 In editorial or publishing
work. are authors and the rest are scat.
tering. Sixty-nine occupations In all are
represented.
-. While. Of course far the largest num-
Der have settled in Illinois, they have
scattered through forty-eight states and
territories and twenty foreign countries:
erica, Brazil. British Columbia, Canada
Panama, China. Cuba. Cyprus, England,
germany italy. Japan, Korea, Mexico,
and Turkey ~
ne graduates are, as a rule, success
1ui: The engineering men have no diff
culty IN finding places at once at s65 and
40 month: AS rule they gradually
progress until they occupy, in the course
OF few years. places yielding salaries of
s2,'oo or $1,000 year, and in some cases
much more.
The agricultural graduates, those of
the law school and of the liberal arts
departments are in most cases in posi-
tons OF dignity and influence as teach
ers, investigators, scientific experts farm
ers or managers of estates representa-
yves OF the commercial side of agricul-
ture or in business"
rs the universities influence going to
make the next generation of citizens any
better?"
1T is. of course. impossible to give a
categorical answer to such a question
That is, we cannot specify the points in
which 1t is to be better, although no one
who knows the university and it's work
can nave any doubt that its influence is
making the world better. In the first
place. the university's influence in techni-
cal lines is increasing the wealth of the
state. This is notably true in the i'm
proVement of soils, in the betterment of
crops and in the many lines of study
In which the representatives of the uni
versity nave shown better ways Of pro-
auction, or marketing, or better utilization
OF natural resources. We believe, more
over. that the university is setting higher
ideals of life. which. through its gradu-
ates who go into teaching or political
life, will make a better community. we
believe that our graduates make better
citizens; make better use of their oppor-
tunities, and are developing the re-
sources of the state to better advantage. -
What does the institution cost?'
The Cost Of the University.
1.-The total expenditure for the twelve
months ending June 80, 1908, is est.
mated at 81. SAG. 500. OF this amount about
| 100000 will be expended for salaries.
$4,000 on the United States agricultural
experiment station. about $1O2 600 on the
state agricultural experiment station.
about 100000 on the College of Medicine
| and School of Pharmacy in Chicago,
about 500. 600 for building and something
over 5000. 900 on special subjects Of inves-
| tigation and instruction, the pursuit of
which Is laid upon the university by the
legislature. Such. for example, is the
| technical study Of clays laid upon the de-
partment Of geology with reference to the
| Industrial u+ilization and the state water
survey.
"Of the whole amount above noted the
| sum of $45O, 200 comes from the state ap-
D.! propT1ations for salaries and similar pur-