Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-01-13
Poor Pay, Poor Preach.

In an admirable article in the
/ A0rth 1merican Reuiew for October
entitled, The Idea of the Univer.
sIty." DIR. Daniel G. Gilman, presi
dent of Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, ably and forcibly sets
forth the propriety of raising profes.
Sional men, as far as possible, above
the need Of anxious cares and strug.
giles Tor the support of their families,
so that they devote their best powers
to the work they have undertaken.
DIR. Gilman put the case so clearly
that We hope his argument may have
some effect i'll reducing the burden
laid on the shoulders Of some men
who would be glad to dedicate them
selves wholly to this work, and who
feel with sorrow the need of distract
| ing and conflicting duties. DR.. Gill
man says:
"ln addition to leisure, duties, in
struments and means Of publication, a
professor needs pay. Social position
he is sure to win; academic honors,
IN the form Of titles and the member
ship of learned bodies, are likely to be
his lot; but more SUBSTANTIAL rewards
are also his due. People are apt to
forget that scholars are susceptible to
the same motives as other men; money
rs just as useful to them as to any
body. a sense of duty, responsibility,
obligation, will indeed make them
faithful; the love of knowledge will
lead them to severe and protracted la
bor, the responses of their pupils will
be rich reward ; but they are enti-
tied to more than this-to emolu-
Inents increasing with their attain
ments and reputation, like those of
the successful lawyer, physician, cler-
gyman, and man of affairs. A cler-
gyman of Boston, referring not long
ago to an increased salary that was
offered him, said, in substance: "To
me, money means books, leisure,
health, freedom from anxiety, greater
power to work" That is what it
means to University professor. In
teIlectual forces expended in writing
"potboilers,' in lccturing under ad-
verse circumstances to winter lyceums
in the country: or an undue anxiety
about domestic economy, is force
Withdrawn from higher labors. 1t is
bad educational economy, justified, in
deed, by necessity but not to be re-
commended. The classical scholar
who can occasionally 90 to Italy or
Greece; the geologist or botanist who
can, at his pleasure, take the field +;
the historian who can command the
libraries OF London and Paris; the as
troGomer who can look through other
glasses aud other atmospheres than
his own, has by those opportunities.
advantages which do not supercede
but enhance the value of his quiet and
nnobServed hours of thought and
81. .aT t. i.sGe. It Is not
pr.sei 'si,h tie certainty sven Of
probability that IA missionary is any
better servant of the church when
kept on spare diet or prevented
from seeking the relaxation which is
essential to health, but it is absolutely
-ure that scholar cannot maintain
his brightness, his enthusiasm, his
susceptibility to good influence, his
fertility, if he is oppressed by anxiety
as to how to pay his grocer's bill.
Plant in two fields two measures of
the same corn; and if you " ish to be
disappointed, look for your rich har-
vest ON the thin soil or granite hill
side where SHOWS linger late in spring
and the rains run rapidly off in sum
mer."