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UNITED STATES : — MASSACHUSETTS

Within the State there are 17 colleges and universities, of which 14 are non-sectarian and 3 are sectarian (2 Catholic and 1 Methodist). Of these 17 institutions, 5 are exclusively for women. These institutions, with the year of foundation, incorporation, or charter and the numbers of members of the teaching staff and students (October, 1912), are : —

Tear of origin

1636 1793 1825 1837 1843 1850 186] 1868 1863 1865 1869 1870 1871 1882 1887 1899 1902

Name and Location of College

Harvard Univ.,i Cambridge Williams Coll., Williamstown. Amherst Coll. , Amherst .... Mount Holyoke Coll. ,3 South Hadley College of the Holy Cross, Worcester

Tufts Coll., 4 Medford

Massachusetts Instit. of Technology, 4 Boston

Boston Coll. , Boston

Massachusetts Agrie. Coll., * Amherst Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester.

Boston Univ.,-* Boston

Wellesley Coll.,3 Wellesley.

Smith Coll., 3 Northampton

Radcliffe Coll.,3 Cambridge

Clark Univ., 4 Worcester. ..

Simmons Coll.,3 Boston ....

Clark Coll., Worcester ...

Totals — 17 Institutions

2,282

Professors

and other

Students

Instructors

771

4, 265 2

56

518

49

431

126

757

30

494

231

1,096

217

1,500

20 6

3556

57

549

5.3

550

149

1,424

127

1,421

110

1,523

[134 5]

562

24

90

96

929

32

163

16,627

1 Includes Radcliffe College for women, which is affiliated with, but not legally a part of Harvard University.

2 Not including students in Radcliffe College, nor students in the summer school.

3 For women only.

4 For men and women.

5 Instructors in Harvard University offering instruction to students in Radclifi'e College.

(> Does not include 20 members of the Staff or 870 students in the High School (preparatory department).

Charity and Correction.— On October 1, 1911, there were in the state eleven public institutions strictly for the insane, two for the feeble- minded, one for inebriates, and one for epileptics, and in addition to these, there were one large priA^ate institution for the insane and 26 smaller institutions for one or more of the above classes of patients. The whole numberof insane in institutions in the State on October 1, 1911, was 12,914, of which number 12,287 were in the public institutions. Of the total number, 6,285 were males and 6,629 were females. The total number of feeble-minded in the State was 2,034, of whom 1,192 were males and 842 were females.

Each city and town must support the indigent poor lawfully settled therein, settlement of adults being acquired in general by residence for 5 consecutive years. Elected or appointed overseers of the poor in towns and cities provide for the poor by out-door relief, or by boarding them (under contract and State inspection) with other families, or in almshouses. Liability for support of relatives extends to parents, grandparents, children and grand- children. It is an offence to bring a pauper into a place where he has no legal settlement. The State provides for paupers who haA'^e no settlement, and the State Board of Charity visits and reports on almshouses.

On September 1, 1912, there were 12 institiitions under the supervision of the State Board of Cliarity, consisting of the State Farm with 2,517 inmates, the State infirmary with 2,167 inmates, three industrial schools with 877 inmates, a hospital school for crippled children with 224 inmates, four sana- toria for consumptives with 881 inmates, the Norfolk State Hospital with 47 inmates, and Penikese Hospital (for lejiers) with 15 inmates. In addition to