GENERAL INFORMATION 5

regents, faculty, legislature, and state had united to ensure the future of
the University. Other results of his administration, which helped to ini-
tiate the post-war development of the University, were: the securing of a
modest but promising annual research fund; the enlargement of the med-
ical course to the full four years; the erection of the Wisconsin General
Hospital, which is administered by the Medical School; and the resump-
tion of building operations in the University, made possible by the legis-
lature of 1925.

Glenn Frank, editor of The Century Magazine, succeeded Dr. Birge
upon the retirement of the latter in 1925.

PLACE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM—The University of Wisconsin is
the culmination of the free educational system of the state. In the educa-
tional policy of the state, the University is related to the high schools as
are the high schools to the primary and grammar schools. It is not expect-
ed that all pupils who complete the grammar grade will advance to the high
school; nor is it expected that all who complete a high-school course will
go forward to the University. But the school system of the state has been
so arranged as to make advancement from one step to another as easy and
natural as possible. The University encourages in its teachers and ad-
vanced students research, including learning, investigation, and the applica-
tion of scientific knowledge to the arts of life. Its largest work is to dis-
seminate knowledge through the systematic discipline of organized courses
to resident students, both in liberal and professional study. In addition,
the University, through an extension division organized upon the broad-
est basis, assists those who for any reason cannot become resident students
to enjoy the benefits of its facilities and equipment, with the fewest pos-
sible restrictions.

SUPPORT—The University is supported partly by the income of federal
grants, partly by taxation of the people of the state, partly by student
fees, and to a slight extent by private gifts. There have been several fed-
eral grants, namely: The Two-Township Grant of 1848; the Supplemen-
tary Two-Township Grant of 1854; the Morrill Grant of 1862; the Supple-
mentary Morrill Grant of 1890, and the Nelson Grant of 1907 for the sup-
port of teaching in agriculture and mechanic arts; the Hatch Grant of
1887, the Adams Grant of 1906, and the Purnell Grant of 1925 for the sup-
port of agricultural experiment stations; the Smith-Lever Grants of 1914
and 1924, and the Capper-Ketcham Grant of 1928 for the support of exten-
sion work in agriculture and home economics.

In addition to numerous and large appropriations for buildings and
other scientific purposes, the state of Wisconsin has made a number of con-
tinuing grants. The first was the one-tenth mill tax of 1876. The princi-
ple of this tax was once temporarily abandoned, but has been recurred to
by the legislature, the present ratio being three-eighths of a mill on the
dollar.

The more important gifts that have come to the University are from
Dane County for the purchase of lands for the University farm; from
the late Governor C. C. Washburn for the founding of Washburn Observ-
atory; from the late Judge Mortimer M. Jackson for the establishment
of the Mortimer M. Jackson Professorship of Law; from the late Dr. C.
K. Adams and Mrs. Adams for the foundation of fellowships; from the
late Mrs. Fannie P. Lewis for the foundation of scholarships for women;
from the late Anna Marston for the establishment of the Anna
Marston Fellowship; from the late Calvin K, Jayne, the residue of whose