STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Mr. OWEN, from the Committee on Education, submitted a report as to the condition and needs of the State Educational Institutions. Purdue University has at present 220 students matriculated, representing forty-fve Counties, against 203 students last year. Of this number twenty-eight reside in Lafayette. The future yearly revenues of Purdue, independent of State aid, include $17,000, the interest on the endowment fund, and $2,000 income from students. The University asks for a $20,000 annual appropriation. The State Normal School at Terre Haute has 259 students enrolled, 243 of whom were present when the report was called for, and of this number 226 represent sixty-five different Counties and seventeen are from other States, and forty-one live in Terre Haute, and nine others in Vigo County. The schoo1 has no endowment fund or independent sources of revenue, and is dependent altogether on State aid. The State University at Bloomington has 169 students in the Collegiate and 128 in the Academic Department. Of the former, thirty-six are from Bloomington and Monroe County, and forty six other Counties are represented; in the latter fifty are from other Counties than Monroe. The University has a revenue of $10,000 independent of State aid, and asks for an appropriation of $97,000 for buildings, books, etc.
