The following list shows the sums received through public donations and bequests by the principal educational institutions of the country during the last year:

American University, $137,000; Amherst College, $10,000; Berea College, $110,000; Brown University, $1,000,000; Barnard College, $15,000; Bowdoin College, $200,000; Beloit College, $230,000; Carnegie Institute, $3,600,000; Cooper Union, $800,000; Columbia College, $192,000; University of Chicago, $2,675,400; Cornell College, $110,000; University of California, $135,000; Colorado College, $50,000; Clark University, $2,350,000; Drake University, $532,500; Dartmouth College, $5,000; Harvard College, $710,500; Hampton Institute, $101,000; Illinois College, $60,000; Lake Forrest University, $79,000; University of Michigan, $27,500; New York University, $125,000; Northwestern University, $116,000; Oberlin College, $360,000; University of Pennsylvania, $74,000; Princeton College, $112,000; Syracuse University, $796,000; Smith College, $32,000; Tufts College, $105,000; Vanderbilt University, $250,000; Vassar College, $100,000; University of Wisconsin, $7,000; Williams College, $40,500; Wellesley College, $310,000; Washington University, $5,000,000; Yale College, $1,341,912.