The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-24
THE eERMAN Professors Par.
To he Increased 20 $1,000 . Year n Bsvs
Mn-Others Who Get Much Less.

To he Iucre ased 81 600 . Year n Dsvs
nn-Others who Get Much Less.
Prussia is about to increase the total amount
that she pays her officials by almost 5000, 900
q year. Part of The increase will benefit the
university professors, who are Prussian State
officials The regular professors in Berlin UNI
verslty. for instance. will have their salaries
raised about 5000 each year; tho average pro-
fessorial salary will then be 900 year In
Berlin and sl.4oo year In other PrussiAu uni
versity towns. That seems q rather low figure
when one remembers that Berlin Univsr-
sity has had In the last twenty years such
Instructors as Preitschke, Virchow, Heimholtx,
Bergmann. Wagner and Dubois. Raymond. and
n dozen others whose names are rs familiar to
the educated in Toxic. Cairo. and Cape Toion
AS they are to the students of San Francisco,
Chicago and New York. To be sure. q profes.
sor has nifty to one hundred attendants At each
OF his lecture courses, and from every ono. with
AN occasional exception, he collects from IS TO
$50 lecture money a term but no 10 allowed 70
earned Probably only very famous and .
very popular professor is able TO profit more
than 900 year from the student foes In his
Yet a regular professors chair in q German
university is n much coveted place. Thousands
of men strive for the salaries that appear so
mcagre even TO the eyes of the American used to
German conditions Of life. Young men OF many
talents and international reputation cling to the
wrotched earnings that fail to tutors, in the mere
hope OF some time reaching that haven and
heaven Of honor anu dignity known as a regular
professionally. A tutor OF this turn of mind livee
lifo OF Self.denial without many parallels
among men Of his class. He has ono room.
takes only un bu uttered rolls and coffee for break
fast, only coffee for luncheon. and only Q slice
OF meat and n taste OF vegetables and coffee for
dinner; He crowds his daily wants down to the
point Just this side OF absolute want, rarely
spending moro than 5000 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 suit u year. a slice of meat
with his luncheon and two slices with dinner.
but not much more, bave that he moves into .
little fiat and puts brass plate on tho door.
Asa full. fled Ccd professor his ideal Of luxury 10
realized in all cight-room fiat and all he cares
to eat OF his favorite dishes, which. with tho
training he has had in his tutor days, 1t
Is safe to say are never expensive. He never
aspires To kceping horse or taking his family
or himself to the seashore or mountains. that Is.
IL he he dependent on his own resources, some
professors, who gain their dignity when young,
marry rich wives, and then the wide, wide
world. with all its luxurles, yawns for them as II
does Tor men with rich wives anywhere else on
abe globe. For the ordinary professor stud ylng
and walking ana lecturing are the glad diver
sons OF II life that has reached the acme or hui
man COntentmCnt.