The Splendid Example of the United States.

If we consider the private benefactions given yearly to higher education in the United Statee we will see how little wo have done to help University education. Taking the throe past years, I find that the benefactions were in 1907 £4,764,412, in 1908 £5,087,694, in 1909 £3,709,817. But in 1909 there wore large gift, bestowed of which the returns had not been received by the Commissioner of Education when the amount was made up, and which are therefore not included in the amount put down for that year. The average, you will see, for the last three years is nearly four millions—namely, £5,853,974. If we had given at the same rate, according to our population, our average would have been over £40,000. We have not only not got £40,000 each year, but we have not got £40,000 altogether in the thirty-nine years since our first University was opened. I have not included in these benefactions the sums granted to Normal Schools, Dental Colleges, and other educational institutions, nor grants to libraries, museums, etc. There is much need for the development of the enthusiasm for higher education in our midst, and it is to the students of the University that we must look to call that enthusiasm into being.