The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11
FRATERNITY BUILDING, CORNELL.

strong. numerically, as the entire army
of the United STATES. While the $4,000
business college students. ranking
next, would set up juvenile Omaha
of their own. Behind them are 1900
normal school pupils--mostly girls
who Will learn the trade OF bending
the twig as should the tree incline.
They could establish suffragette
heaven as populous as Peoria or Mo-
bile. And You viii not stand agape at
their numbers when you stop to con-
slider that half million teachers
three-fourths of them marms-will be
needed to mold the young American
idea in our common schools alone.
The relative popularity OF IT, pro-
fessions we can measure by the
brtSades following: Twenty-six thou
sand student nurses, $4,000 medical
students, $4,000 pupils OF law schools
10000 theological students. $500
would be dentists, $500 pupils going
to schools of pharmacy.
Nine-Tenths Going to Public Schools.
For every one bound for private
school there are more than ten on
their way to public school, All told,
the line of private school pupils
stretches only halfway across the
continent, while the public school
three al.u a quarter times.
To give his children a college edu-
cation the American parent Will spend
in tuition fees alone enough money
during the coming year to make Ihir-
teen millionaires. and during 1910 our
colleges will have taken In about
million dollars every six days. In other
words. their total income is now about
s60.000.000 a year. If you owned all
of their buildings you would be worth
s215, 00oOOO; If merely their scientific
apparatus, s2S,0oo,o00; it their libraries
alone, s12,O00,000. 1..e total amount
Of money now invested in American
colleges is s260,oo0,ooO II they were
all wiped off the map a tax of So
on each man. woman and child in the
nation would about pay for their
restoration.
Our army of college professors and
instructors is now $4,000 strong, and
includes seven times as many men as
women If all of our colleges were
equally distributed among the COM
monwealths of the Union there would
be more than ten for each State.
Greatest College state-Whnte
What is our greatest college State?
No. not Massachusetts by a jugrul!
Guess again! Give it up? Well. 1t
will knock you down to hear it
!, Kansas. massachusetts,, with her hal
| lowed hub of culture is nearly twice
as populous as Kansas, yet the latter
has $4,000 college students to Massa-
! chusetts' 10000. One out of every
| 122 residents of Kansas is In college,
| while in Iowa the average is one in
III: Illinois, one in 900; Ohio, one In
244; New York. one In 27s; Massa-
| chusetts, one in ESQ; Pennsylvania, one
/! in 21S Thaca n ho1,
more than 10000 college boys and
| girls. This year there are more than
twice al many colleges in the North
! Central as in the North Atlantic
States.
Our $1,000 College Girls.
Our army OF college girls now num-
bers 71,00O-a force OF Amazons about
half again as great In numbers as
the personnel of our navy. Their sex
now constitutes more than third cas-
per cent? of the entire college enrol
ment Of the country, and the North
Central States contribute 10000,
whereas all the other States put to-
gether give only $1,000. Illinois has
| 400 Of thcm: Ohio. 6,7o0; Iowa, $500;
! Kansas, 500; New York, 4,400; Penn
sylvania, 300; California 5000; Mas
sachusetts only 600. In kansas col
| leges there are five girls for every
seven boys; Iowa, two girls for every
three boys; OHIO, seven girls FOR each
eleven boys. And compare with these
figures those of New York, where there
| are sixteen boys to every girl. In col
lege There are eleven times as many
college girls in Ohio as In Massa-
| chusetts.
About one in every fifty of our girls
and one In each twenty Of our boys
of college age Will be in college this
fall
What College Costs To-day.
Out of the entire list of AGA col
leges, universities and schools OF
| technology. only eleven charge as high