The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-18
(The End.)
GERMAN PROFESSORS PAY.
To Be Increased to $1,000 n Year in
Berlin.-nthers Who Cot ycsS

Prussia is about to increase the total
amount that she pays her officials by
almost $5,OOO,O0O a year. Part of the
increase will benefit the university
professors, who are Prussian state Of
ficials. The regular professors in Ber
lin university, for instance, will have
their salaries raised about 5000 each
year; the average professional salary
will then be $1,000 year in Berlin and
$1,400 a year in other Prussian univer-
sity towns. That seems a rather low
figures when one remembers that Ber-
lin university has had in the last twen-
ty years such instructors as Preitschke,
Virchow, Helmholtz, Bergman, Wag-
ner and Dubois Raymond, and dozen
others whose names are as familiar to
the educated in Toxic Cairo and Cape
Town as they are to the students of San
Francisco, Chicago and New York. To
be sure, professor has fifty to one
hundred attendants at each of his lee
ture courses, and from every one. with
an occasional exception, he collects
from So to 500 lecture money a term,
but he is allowed to keep but little
more than half the money thus earned.
Probably only a very famous and a
very popular professor is able to profit
more than $1,000 year from the stu
| dent fees in his own lecture courses.
Yet regular professors chair in a
| German university is a much coveted
| place. Thousands of men strive for
salaries that apepar so meagre, even
to the eyes of the American used to
| German conditions of life. Young men
of many talents and international
reputation cling to the universities for
| ,t.1, 4
earnings that fall to tutors, in the mere
hope of some time reaching that haven
and heaven of honor and dignity
! known as a regular professorship. A
tutor of this turn of mind lives life
of sef-denial without any parallels
among men of his class. He has one
room, takes only unbuttered rolls and
coffee for breakfast, only coffee for
| luncheon. and only a slice of meat and
| q taste of vegetables and coffee for
| dinner. He crowds his daily wants
| down TO the point just this side of
absolute want, rarely spending more
| than 5000 a year, and wearing, season
| after season, the same suit of clothes,
| with the same amazing style of hat.
When the tutor becomes an extra
professor he may afford a suit year,
| a slice of meat with his luncheon and
| two slices with dinner, but not much
more, save that he moves into little
flat and puts a brass plate on the door.
| AS a full-hedged professor his ideal of
luxury is realized in an eight-room
fiat and all he cares to eat of his IA
! vorite dishes, which. with the training
| he has had in his tutor days, it is safe
| to say are never expensive. He never
aspires to keeping a horse or taking
his family or himself to the seashore
| or mountains, that is, If he be depend
| ent on his own resources. Some pro-
| fessors, who gain their dignity when
| young, marry rich wives, and then the
| wide, wide, world, with all its luXuries,
yawns for them as it does for men
with rich wives anyhere else on the
| globe. For the ordinary professor
studying and walking and lecturng
are the glad diversions Of "A life that
has reached the acme of human con-
! tentment