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44 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1929)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry44 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume XLIV] POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY THE ECONOMICS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN BRITISH professors have their own opinion as to aca- demic standards in America; in fact, they quite gen- erally believe that the American collegian at the age of twenty is about two years behind his contemporary in the old country. They shake their heads in friendly disapproval of the complexity of the American curriculum, the public school atmosphere of American undergraduate life both in the classroom and outside, and the limitation of academic free- dom to which, in their understanding, the American professor is subjected. In such respects, whatever be the amount and quality of their information, they confess little envy of their American cousins across the sea. But there are certain mani- festations of deep and real enthusiasm for education in the United States that strike them into admiration. Public support of higher education by taxation, such as that provided for our state universities, they can understand, for the beginnings of like support have been made in Great Britain. Before the War the nation divided about one hundred and fifty thousand pounds annually in recurrent grants among all its institutions of higher learning, a sum considerably smaller than that which the state of Utah appropriates for its university and agricultural college. Since then the Government's patronage has greatly expanded and now the annual allotment from national and local treasuries for the twelve institutions in Eng- land, counting the multipartite University of London as a unit, together with those for the four colleges of the University of I Marck, r1a2 [Number z

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