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Answer.—According to the report of the Bureau of Education for 1880, these institutions compare, as regards wealth, as follows:
| Productive | Income | Income | |
| Colleges— | funds. | from funds. | fr. tuition. |
| Harvard | $3,959,556 | $236,889 | $122,835 |
| Yale | 1,293,078 | 79,943 | 102,912 |
| Columbia | 4,816,257 | 320,565 | 24,200 |
Besides the above, there is a scientific school connected with each of the above colleges with property, as follows:
| Prod’tive | Income | Income | |
| Scientific Dept.— | funds | fr. funds | fr. tuit’n |
| Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) | $729,623 | $46,482 | $2,505 |
| Sheffield Scientific School (Yale) | 265,775 | 28,157 | 15,850 |
| School of Mines (Columbia) | 36,500 |
As respects students enrolled and graduates of all departments, in the year above given, these institutions compared as in the totals below:
| Number of | Number of | Degrees |
| Colleges— | Students. | conferred. |
| Harvard | 974 | 264 |
| Yale | 952 | 232 |
| Columbia | 577 | 415 |
The degrees enumerated were all conferred “in course,” honorary degrees being omitted from this statement.
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