TABLE 2.-Distribution of college students in the regular degree courses from 1886-87 to 1889-90-Continued. 1888-89. reported in in regular courses Per cent of students 1889-90. lar courses reported inPer cent of students in regu No. of colleges reporting. No. of undergraduates. Per cent in regular courses. A. B. course. B. S. course. B. L. course. Ph. B. course. C. E. course. Other first-degree courses. States. Indiana. M. L. Litt. D. L. H. D. C. E. LL. B. LL. D. D. C. L. M. D. D. D. S. T. D. Mrs D Degrees conferred in 1889-90.-The following table presents the summary, by States, of the number of different degrees conferred by 415 colleges and universities during the year 1889-90. TABLE 3.-Summary of degrees conferred by colleges and universities in 1889–90. Degrees conferred in course or on examination. Honorary degrees. B. Paint. LL. B. LL. M. D. C. L. M. D. D. D. S. D. V. M. Ph. G. B. D. cocoko-ut | Total No. 28 2 A. B. A. Total number 9, 017 3, 128 809 1,071 42 5516 24 125 313 9 2 170 73 47 310 4 124 54 71, 046 35 31,062 198 32 117 123 727 11 223 423 3 5 39 111 9 2 18 21 4 1114 41 274 States. Total No. A. B. A. M. B. S. M. S. D. Sc. Ph. B. Ph. M. Ph. D. B. L. M. L. Alabama. 119 71 7 14 100 a 98 15 215 110 37 40 17 11 26 105 25 : 4 7 94 368 2 1 07 3 27 291231 7 IV. ENDOWMENT FUNDS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Although the number of colleges and universities in the United States is constantly increasing, both by the foundation of new institutions and by the development of institutions from secondary schools to colleges, this increase in the number of institutions has not thus far affected to any perceptible degree the increase in the endowment funds of the older institutions of the country. The gifts of the people to higher institutions have been large and numerous and seem to be keeping pace with the increase in the population and wealth of the country. During the past few years a number of rich bequests have been made to old institutions, and also in not a few cases for the foundation of new institutions. The most notable of the latter are Clark University, Worcester, Mass., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Catholic University, Washington, D. C., and Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal. On account of the failure of a number of institutions to report to the Bureau from year to year a comparison between the total amounts of productive funds in 1880 and in 1890 would not show the true rate of increase in the funds during the last ten years. The following tabular statement includes, first, only the institutions that reported on this subject in both 1880 and in 1890, and, second, all the institutions that reported in either year. From the first showing the average rate of increase may be inferred. |