Universities Seek Thirty-Three Million Dollars
THE Chicago Tribune made inquiry of the universities in the United States as to how much they needed, to relieve their wants during the year 1900. The sum of the reply is that they are in pressing need of thirty-three million dollars “for higher education.” On this the Interior justly remarks that “there is no other feeling in the mind of a sensible patriot than of moral contempt for such pretenses. Who is benefited by such vast masses of money?—Not the students, whether they be rich or poor. It costs a student very nearly exactly five times as much in those institutions for matriculation and tuition fees as it cost us boys, fifty years ago. . . . The more money there is piled up in those universities, the less they are worth to the people.”