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Running Expenses of Colleges.

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President Coulter of Lake Forest University in a recent address presented the following statistics concerning the expenses of some of the larger institutions of learning. The figures are of interest as showing that nearly every college man is in a certain sense educated by charity.

Annual expenses for each student over and above receipts from students. Average value of equipment for each student.

Colleges. students. student.

Wesleyan, $259 $2,187

Yale, 231 1,500

Amherst, 175 1,453

Harvard, 305 2,705

Williams, 146 1,410

Ann Arbor, 300 1,200

Princeton, 250 1,800

Cornell, 242 1,210

Columbia, 1,400 4,530

Lafayette, 60 2,190

Brown, 210 2,630

Wisconsin, 400 2,800

Lake Forest, 92 678

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