Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-09-19
PAY OF BRAINS.
The Salaries Of College Professors
In This Country.
President Eliot, of Harvard, Gets $4,000
a Year for His Work-Poorly Paid
Instructors Who Are the
Real Teachers.

drawn, except where man IS an
officer of the university besides be-
ing professor, like the dean, and
where a particular chair is endowed
with the express provision that the
incumbent shall be paid so much, of
which there are only one or two
instances.
Up to 1889 the professors got 81
900, but the large increase in at
tendance, with it's resulting increase
in income and the help of the rents
from Hastings hall, which had just
been finished at a cost of $243, 900,
fifteen of the professors, and four of
the law school professors wereraised
to So, 600, the highest salaried depart
ment in the university.
The assistant professors were
raised at the same time from 81, 500
to So, 900.
And then there came the instruc-
tors.
The students under an instructor
do not regard him as a teacher-he
is rather regarded as a. fellow
student, who has studied the sub
ject little more thoroughly than
the rest.
His salary is usually under a
thousand-muchl less than he could
get outside, but the precedence he
gets by being, even in the smallest
way, connected with Harvard, is
really more to him than the shekels.
Harvard runs close up to the wind
on expenses, and couple of thou
sand dollars either way would turn
the scales, and if a man can be kept
at Harvard upon $1,000 a year,
the present regime is not one that
will pay him "a, 500, and this is only
one instance, and not the only one
Chicago university pays her pro-
fessors $4,000, but she could not get
single one of Harvard's facul'- 20
accept an increase of 50, 800, over ~
per cent. Not a man left the univer-
sity city.
Forty five hundred at Cambridge
was to be preferred to seventy hun
dred at Chicago, mainly because of
the surroundings.
Cambridge and it's neighbors
make up the greatest literary center
in the new world. Men whose
names are worldwide, historians,
poets, authors, naturalists and men
of letters, are met every day on the
streets, and the charm Of their So
ciety, the incentive and the being in
world where brains is the entree,
and where money knocks in vain for
it, all these things keep those who
live in it, like Longfellow and
Lowell, till their journey is done
even on a starvation salary.
AS a general thing, there are
little cliques of these Instructors
those who have grown old in her
service bond Of sympathy
between them; their lot seems to
wear about the same air. They go
to the theaters together, they lunch
together and play whist together,
and some are inclined to assert that
Harvard is an absolute monarchy.
But in the cases of the older and
better known, there is a good deal
of balm in the sentiments of the
students. AS a general thing, in
structors are thought much more of
| by students than the professors.
The Instructor seems somewhere
near the earth, whereas full pro-
| lessor can't be touched with ten
| foot pole.
The students spend evenings in
their rooms-they have smoke talks
together, and often an old gray
head gathers his class around him
] for an evening, and as the smoke
thickens aud the little refreshments
disappear, there grows up a real
| friendship between them.
And when these men become
graduates and come back to college
to see the old elms once more, it is
the hearty grasp of the instructors
hand that makes them feel that they
are not entirely forgotten.
AS for the professors-well,
there's no shaking hands there
although the visitor took Prof.
IS course for four years, still
there is not the slightest nod or
sign of recognition between the two.
So an instructor gets the good
will, the honest thanks and the
grateful appreciation that the helped
always bears toward the helper
and poor salary-but more than all
these men are esteemed as true men
men who do what is set before
them, do it well and never murmur
the aim and the type of the true
man.
THE LETTER OF THE LAW.
a Clever Forger Meets Still More