Our country and its resources; . ,103 95, 15, 8,403,150 8,653,700 4,168,787 2,477,248 8,753,495 3,817,863 ,000 4, 2,,000,000 $ $794,459,968 law schools, $1,405,773 for medicalschools. $607,431 for public normalschools, $116,283 for private normalschools, ami $706,546 for private sec-ondary schools. The following tableshows the annual amount of giftsand bequests to education since 1894 : GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO EDUCATION, 1894-191 1 1894 $10,855,365 1895 8,240,87fi 1896 11,677,048 1897 1898 1899 1900 15.
Our country and its resources; . ,103 95, 15, 8,403,150 8,653,700 4,168,787 2,477,248 8,753,495 3,817,863 ,000 4, 2,,000,000 $ $794,459,968 law schools, $1,405,773 for medicalschools. $607,431 for public normalschools, $116,283 for private normalschools, ami $706,546 for private sec-ondary schools. The following tableshows the annual amount of giftsand bequests to education since 1894 : GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO EDUCATION, 1894-191 1 1894 $10,855,365 1895 8,240,87fi 1896 11,677,048 1897 1898 1899 1900 ,561 1901 ,400 1902 20,348,739 1903 1904 :::75 1905 ,875 ; ,070 1907 28,585,780 1908 ,421 1909 1910 1911 27,634,029 1912 ,310 1913 ,879 1914 31,357 398 X. LIBRARIES There were over regularlyestablished libraries io the roiledstates in L913, containing more than75,000,000 volumes. The number of volumes is an increase of 20,000,000since READING K00M. CONGRESSIONALLIBRARY EDUCATION 261 Of the 2,S4!) libraries containing5,000 volumes or over, 1;844 areclassified as public and society li-braries, and 1,005 are school andcollege libraries. Public and societylibraries have an aggregate of overfifty million volumes, with sevenmillion borrowers cards in force;1,446 of these libraries were entire-ly free to the public-Libraries reporting from 1,000 to5,000 volumes numbered , ofwhich 2,188 were public and societylibraries, and 3,265 school libraries contained 11,689,942volumes. Another group of libraries,comprising those that reported from300 to volumes, increased thetotal by 2,961,007 volumes. Of the 1,844 public and societylibraries with over 5,000 volumesreported for the entire UnitedStates, more than half were in theNorth Atlantic States, and theycontained 24, volumes outof the total of fifty millions; andof the three million volumes addedto library collec
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