Excerpt from Colleges North and Colleges South: An Address Before the Department of Higher Instruction of the National Educational Association at Topeka, Kansas, July 16, 1886 Massachusetts exceeds by the assessed valuation of Vir ginia, Kentucky, Georgia, and Texas. It has twenty-six times as muci property to the square mile as Virginia. Connecticut, less than one-eighth the area of Virginia, more than equal that state in wealth. Rhode Island, que forty-seventh of Georgia, more than equals tha state in wealth. New York City nearly equals Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, and Texas the four wealthiest Southern States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.