Expenditures. Financial statistics for 1896-97 of institutions endowed by act of Congress in 1862 and 1890 with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both. Instruc- the sub- in sec- Experi ment station. Instruc tion in all other departments. From act of July 2, 1862. From act of August 30, 1890. For support of experi ment stations. Receipts. Federal aid Expenditures. Financial statistics for 1896-97 of institutions endowed by act of Congress in 1862 and 1890 with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both-Continued. 34,429 22,000 13, 658 506, 068 292, 933 14, 168 a 192, 033 0 22,000 15,000 3.447 22, 216 17,255 32, 952 22,000 0 26,564 80,426 0 2, 134 b48,508 1,046 7,165 22,000 15,000 1,342 23, 267 15, 000 7,268 25, 637 15,000 9,371 35,355 15,000 68,906 1,919 000 15,000 6,000 20, 973 15,000 12,000 Lincoln Instituto. 111 6,000 North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race. 1, 196 0 839 Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College of South Carolina. 10,000 7,713 01 G, 838 1.210 6,838 92 2,824 0 13,000 3,809 11,000 0 1,500 Prairie View Normal School. 13, 116 0 3, 612 Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. 0 0 10,329 West Virginia Colored Institute.. 7,333 0 176, 830 206, 311 4, 025 500 a Other expenditures were $14,842. In great institutions, such as Cornell, it is very difficult to separate what is not covered by the act of August 30, 1890, from what is covered by that act. To oblige this Bureau, however, Cornell and other institutions have endeavored to make the division. b Does not include $200,293 for all other expenses, including as such the cost of a building, for which $148,072.25 had been borrowed. e From treasurer's report. CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Medical schools in the Northern, Western, and some of the Southern States now require attendance upon courses of four years as a condition of graduation. Eleven schools have an annual session of nine months, and nineteen schools have sessions of eight months. In the University of Michigan "the literary student who intends to enter medicine has an opportunity, by electing from the courses of the first two years of the medical curriculum, of shortening from one and one-half to two years his total period of residence at the university." In the medical school of Yale University "graduates in arts, philosophy, or science, who have pursued studies in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, and histology during their undergraduate courses may be admitted to the second-year class, with certain conditions." A large number of medical schools have similar regulations. Upon examination of the diagram showing the percentage of increase in the number of students during the ten years 1887-1897, it will be found that while theological students increased thirty per cent in number, dental students increased 284 per cent, or nearly ten times as fast. While medical students increased 108 per cent, law students increased 228 per cent. DIAGRAM 2.-Percentage of increase in number of students in ten years, 1887-1897. |