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if Increased work necessitates increased \iuP n< d ? - ' quipment. Bui in spite of that fact, it city. A found necessary to cul the equipment bud it has b D s] < (Ihampaign-Urbana to approximate! Lent improi $70,000 less than it was last year. and Chi

Will t h e PeoDle Format Thoir n . « i w « H V o Endowed institutions ill the c o u n t r y ar

raising additional funds for increased salaries. Harvard has

Massachusetts " T e c h " has raised $13,000,000;

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1 rinceton, C o r n e l l , Northwestern and oth-

for research will get the best teachers and inResearch Ma vestigators. If liarvard needs the annual income from $15,000,Great as is th i)00 in addition to what >RGE HUFF it now lias, the Univor- Igamzation, it :> a eil ot r m Director of Athletics s j t y 0 f Illinois needs an | 8" 9' 1 .. . , Irnnnhmn* at teaching .it oil One of the I it know animal appropriation priatio of the alumni and faculty tade t members. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ greater than that in- of its research < come, because it does so to give a monej many more lii s of work. work, but it is The average approximate per capita cash appropriations c expenditure for instruction at the University time it was es .1 of Illinois in 1913 was $259. This year it is Some o( the i approximately $223, a decrease due to the tions which hav fact that the stall' is being strained beyond welfare of the ! reason. Bui if we remember that the dollar conservation id of L913 is worth 57 cents today, the value ex- of the soil; the pended for instruction this year per capita, discoveries in tli is $ 1 2 7 j that is, the S t a t e is p a y i n g loss than of using rein for* half in value this y e a r what it paid six years ^ ^ ^an r o i J all of l i a » for what, ought to be the same or better seven or eight i Service. T h e money gain is taken out of men now in use in tl and quality of work. current of high

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