In schools for the negro race there were (two colleges failing to report). The students of the colleges were engaged in studies which may be classed under the following heads (Colorado and Kansas schools not definitely reporting the number of students in agriculture, and the North Carolina Agricultural College and the University of Arizona1 both failing to reply to the repeated requests for the statistics for the year 1896-97, made in compliance with the law of August 30, 1890): The financial reports of the presidents of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts (excluding the institutions for the colored race, except in the case of the State of Maryland) for 1896-97 show the following facts, two colleges (the North Carolina Agricultural College and the University of Arizona1) failing to report: Federal aid: (a) Income from land grant of 1862 (as far as reported by presidents).. (b) Income from act of August 30, 1890 (from treasurers' reports). State aid: 2 $568, 651 3 948, 818 Total (omitting colored schools, except Maryland and the State aid and fees to the 4,925, 166 Of these sums there were expended during the year For instruction in the subjects mentioned in the act of August 30, 1890, including facilities for teaching those subjects $2, 166, 844 For instruction in other subjects.. For administrative expenses (presidents', secretaries', etc., salaries). $519,377 1,611, 939 Total.... 3,778,783 It is to be stated that the amount of money carried over to the year 1897-98 is unknown to this Bureau, except in the case of the funds received from the Federal Government. In the report for last year it was assumed that the amount received from the Government was expended during the course of twelve months, more or fewer, irrespective of the beginning of the fiscal year of each State and the date at 1 The delayed report of the president of the University of Arizona shows a professional corps of 14, 64 men and 53 women in the preparatory department and 27 men and 8 women in the collegiate department. Not including that of several States which fail to report. 3 The total disbursement was $1,056,000, of which $107,182 went to institutions for colored race, as follows: Alabama, $9,988; Arkansas, $6,000; Delaware, $4,400; Florida, $11,000; Georgia, $7,333; Kentucky, $3,190: Louisiana, $11.346; Maryland, $4,400; Mississippi, $11,783; Missouri. $1,196; North Carolina, $7,713; South Carolina, $11,000; Texas, $5,500; Virginia, $7,333; West Virginia, $5,000. which the Federal money was received. With the information at hand it was impossible for the Bureau to do otherwise. It can now be stated that of the amount received from the Federal Treasury by the States and Territories in the course of the latter half of the year 1896, or previously, the sum of $173,080 appears by the treasurers' reports to have been on hand at the date of July 1, 1897, considering the white schools apart from the colored. The colored schools report $25,421 of Federal money on hand on July 1, 1897, one institution reporting $15,141 to its credit. The difficulty appears to be that the practice of asking for an account for the school year closing June 30, by the Federal Government, is at variance with the bookkeeping of several States whose fiscal year is different from the school year. Including all accounts-Federal, State, or corporate-the presidents' reports for 1896-97 show that there was on hand on July 1, 1896, over and above all indebtedness (excluding funded debt, if any), the sum of $606,853, with two institutions not reporting. The institutions for the colored race report the following facts: Statistics for 1896-97 of institutions endowed by the acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both. Michigan State Agricultural College, Agricultural University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, Mont State University of Nevada (agricultural and me- New Hampshire College of Agricultural and Me- Rutgers Scientific School, New Brunswick, N. J.... North Carolina Agricultural College, Raleigh, N. C.. Oklahoma Agricultural College, Stillwater, Okla... Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa.. Clemson Agricultural College, Fort Hill, S. C.... University of Tennessee (agricultural and mechan- Agricultural College, Logan, Utah... Washington Agricultural College Experiment Sta- a These statistics are not included in summary. 69 12 25 36 10 21 37 28 14 0 397 12 5 33 39 48 11 0 0 0 181 126 4 35 0 11 17 4 45 19 82 00 47 221 62 11 4 238 19 0 288 0 0 218 50 000 100 94 48 117 48 0 0 170 b This may include some 32 students classed as "agricultural." Statistics for 1896-97 of institutions endowed by the acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both-Continued. Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Ala.. Branch Normal College of Arkansas Industrial State College for College Students, Dover, Del. Georgia Industrial College for Colored Youths, Col- State Normal School for Colored Persons, Frank- Southern University and Agricultural and Me- Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, West- Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo... Colored Normal Industrial and Agricultural and Prairie View State Normal School, Prairie View, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va. West Virginia Colored Institute, Farm, West Vir |