AMERICAN AND ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7808, 12 September 1903, Page 3

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.

- (BofMttyo -tmerican.) Jjar iEncli-b contemporary, " Nature," in ftseoanb Lwtkle, makes a statistical comE^oa <£ the prevision for university eduLption in Gx^a* Britain and the. United Bt-*e«, in yhich some truiy remarkable Jesuits are shewn. It seems that in the United Kingdom, with a population of ftI,OOO^KIO, there toe 25^00 universily or nnlverfflty college students, or, say, five to fetch 10,000 irAabitants, while in the United States, with 74,000,060 inhabitants, pen are 97,100 students, er 12.76 for each 15,000 inhabitanta After commenting on tha important bearing which these facts taurt have upon the Struggle for industrial kupremacy, our contemporary proceeds td ©oint out that the amount donated by private ind-viduads for higher education in the period from ', lfffa to 1901 was eight times greater in the United States than that given for ■"i'lrl 1 ""' purposes in Great pritah&i whits, te say nothing of the income from State land grants, the amount provided by the State for higher education p_ the United States is six times as much aa the Government grants in Great Britain. In the older country there are but thirfieen uirmisitiee and twenty university colleges, whereaA in the United States there pre 'l7o colleges with an endowment of over ; J.00,000d01, and forty-nine of these have endowments of over 500,000d01, while three of them have an- endowment of over 10,000,000d0L The total number of professors and instructors in universities and Colleges! iaokided in the list of the United (States Commission of Education is 17,000, ■whereas the number of day students in the toniverstoes and university colleges of tixeai {Britain is only about 20,600, ko that there are almost as many university teacheis in the United! States as there are tniverarty students in Great Britain. Even in Germanyi of whose educational advantages we have lately heard so much, teereare only 7.87 university students to A/ach 10,000 inhaljitants, as compared with 12.76 in the United States,