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North Carolina and its citizens, made grants to its Univer-
sity at Chapel Hill, out of which wag realized a productive
endowment of $150,000, and expended about the same amount
on its building, library, apparatus, &c.

Mississippi, endowed her State University with large tracts
of public lands, besides an annuity of $15,000, but failing to
fulfil all the requisitions of the endowment, that State subse-
quently made an additional appropriation of $2(7,000 a year
for five years.

Massachusetts, has given to her colleges within five years
more than $300,000, besides contributions from its citizens of
more than a million of dollars.

How far short Maryland has come to the standard of these
States, will be more apparent when we consider that its pri-
vate citizens and not the State, have paid for the buildings,
library, &c., of St. John's, the State merely contributing as
before stated, the annuity for some years to pay the salaries
of its professors.

These State contributions are required to establish perma-
nently institutions of learning; when they are once so estab-
lished, their own alumni, the generosity of private citizens,
and their own means of extending the blessings of education,
are generally found sufficient for their continuance. This may
be seen from what has been done in other States by individual
donations 'or such colleges when permanently established.
Within comparatively a few years the sums given to colleges
in this country from private sources have been almost beyond
belief. Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, has re-
ceived $250,000; Lehigh College, in Lehigb, Pennsylvania,
$600,000; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $100,-
000, of which a large sum has been the contributions of Mary-
landers, and they are seeking with a prospect of success to
make up another like sum. Princeton and Rutgers Colleges,
New Jersey, have received about $300,000; Brown Univer-
sity, Rhode Island, within the last ten years has received over
$250,000; Yale and the other colleges in Connecticut, have
received within the last five years $800,000; we need not add
the magnificent and magnanimous donations of George Pea-
body, now the admiration of the whole country.

It may be confidently stated that if these colleges had not
been so permanently endowed, as to give assurance to these
donors that their contributions would be faithfully applied for
the extension of collegiate education, they never would have
been made.

Maryland, since the year 1805, when St. John's was de-
prived of t|e means of educating her citizens, although she
has had many respectable institutions of learning within her