University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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been able since 1880 to ap])r()priatc enouj li for its needs, even by voting at tlircc different times a special additional amount At the present time a deficiency is throwing its shadow across the path of the Regents. The total of all current ex- penses from 1867 to the close of the year 1895-6, a ])eriod of thirty years, will not be far from if 2,700,000. The total yearly enrollment for the same time will reach 19,139. The average cost per student, jier ;innnm, to the State is, therefore, $14-1.12. If the ' ear 1884- again be taken as a dividing line between two groups of figures, we shall have: Current expenses of the University, 1867-188 ... $ 65fi.s3;).r.5 Total yearly enrollment, 1867-1884 . ' j.lfin Average annual eost per student 126.4-4- Current expenses, 1885-1896 2, 043, 777. HO Total yearly enrollment, 1885-1896 13,976 Average a tinual eost per student 146.27 The ' ji ' jn ' jt University of Minnesota dt The Students ' Christian Association Building. It may properly ))e mentioned that over forty-two per cent of the total enroll- ment up to 1884 consisted of preparatory students. Absolute accuracy in the above calculations is impossible, because some of the early current expenses were mingled with building and repair accounts, and some of the Geological and Nat- ural History Survey expenses cannot be separated from University items. Again, many students are here for only a portion, great or small, of the University vear. In 1851, when the University was first thought of as a possible power in the development of the future commonwealth, the size and cost of such an institution were not dreamed of State universities were .scarcely known at that time, and none of them were expensive. Michigan was only a few years old and thus seemed chiefly a jjromise. Ouaiitiim tenipora miitavcrunt. ' The Universitj- was originally

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The University of Minnesota

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The University of Minnesota