The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-03
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INCOMES OF STATE COLLEGES.
Total of s3s,ooo,ooo Received in 1912 by
81 Institutions.


A total working income of approx.
mately $35,000,000 was received BY "
state universities and other state aid.
ed institutions OF higher education dur
Ing the past year, as shown by bul-
letin just issued by the United States
bureau Of education. OF this amount the
| United States government contributed
about S5000000 and the state Sls000-
| 600. Most OF these Institutions do not
have large endowment funds. as many
private colleges and universities, have,
but their regular current income from
public appropriations represents a def
mite capitalization OF about $400 000,-
| 900.
The years income passed the two mill
lion mark in the case of three state
| universities. The University of Hi.
nois had an ineoide during lgll-l2 Of
$2,363,7ll the University OF Minnesota
" ,6S2, AGO. and the University of Wis
consin $2,l22,297 Cornell university,
Ithaca, N, T., which is technically a
private institution but receives state and
federal aid, reported total receipts Of
over three million dollars with net IN.
come available for current expenses Of
dDDHt UliliUil anu HaIIt
Several other state aided institutions
are in the million-doIIar income class.
These include the University of Mich
gan, which had an income of sl,343,057;
Ohio State university, with sl,0ll ,57l;
and. the University of California, with
Skill 1913 The latter had an additional
half million from private benefactions.
The state of Iowa supports several i'm
stitutions Of college and university rank
with a combined income Of over two
million dollars
Some OF the states are exceedingly
generous to their colleges and nniyer-
stiles. and in such cases. the national
governments contribution IL only 4
small fraction of the total. Illinois
meets the governments $4,000 with
nearly two million dollars from state
funds, and there are several other states
that are similarly open handed. Most
OF the states give to higher education a
greater sum than they receive from the
United States government.
On the other hand, few states de-
pend to considerable extent upon Tn
Gle Sans bounty. The state OF Dela-
ware provided $4,000 last year for
DeidNdic CuleRes W accompany btle CO. 1
600 received from federal funds; in
Maryland the state itself furnished S38-
900 for the agricultural college. against
$4,000 received from the federal GOV
eminent; New Hampshire's contribution
to the state college was S2os955 ard
the state Of Vermont gave only $4,000
out Of total income OF S2T7 SIS re, /
ported by the state university, while /
$4,000 was derived from the lfnitei I
States government and s60,95s from pri- /
vate benefactions.
In some Of the larger state aided uni |
versities, tuition fees from students have I
become an important factor in the an
nual income; and others that are to A
certain extent public institutions have
private benefactions that yield Ter
nanent working revenue. Thus the Uni
tersitg Of Vermont has considerable en-
lowment, Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. though aided somewhat by
'tate and national government, depenls
'or the bulk OF its income upon the
Students fees and private funds; and
Cornell university received nearly haH L
. million from each Of three sources,
namely, students fees, productive funds.
md state anpropria tions !