Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-02-09

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. IAN at
tempt is quietly making this winter
to secure better fund for paying bet
ter salaries to professors and instruc-
tors Of Harvard college. The present
situation is generally admitted to be
bad-not so bad as perhaps as at some
other colleges where highgrade work
is done by men who receive ridiculous
~ inadequate compensation but bad
enough TO occasion concern among
friends OF Harvard who believe that a
college teacher should be paid at least
an adequate living salary. Despite the
general advance in standards OF living
in American cities, It is a fact that
the average instructor In the Oldest
American institution OF higher learn.
ing is worse off financially in 1905 than
was the average instructor In 1868.
There are to be sure q number OF
teachers now In the service OF the
college who get the larger compensa'
ton than any instructor received
thirty.fiye years ago. New professor
ships have been endowed and the In
come from old foundations has been
increased. The average OF cOmpcnsa-
ton, however. has not gone up while
the expense Of living has risen
steadily. Nor have the incomes OF
oven the head professors In any way
kept pace with the development Of
compensation In other professions,
Probably ut no period In the history
of Harvard has the college teacher
been at such n disadvantage, In
financial sense, in comparison with the
class OF people amongst whom he has
to live. A professor In 1889 on salary
OF $4,000 or in 1868 when the normal
stipend was $4,000, could certainly hold
his own better In the matter of occu'
plying house In the same street with
lawyers. physicians, bankers and book
publishers than now, when n man who
has risen by dlnt OF years OF scholastic
accomplishment to full professorshlp
may expect q salary OF about $4,000.
A reasonable income for an instruc,
tor, this last may seem, in a country
III "lliih thuNhtotb i'NpiNS i'"Sl phJ
for their services than any other class
OF skilled workers; where there are
presidents receive much less But only
small contingent OF tho aggregate
body Of Harvard college teachers &c,
ns much; and these are men OF ma.
ture years who have made q marked
success OF their chosen life~work BE.
low them In responsibility, honor ana
emolument are associate professors,
assistant professors, lecturers, tn.
tors, instructors, and assistants,
all men who have shown ex.
ceptional ability as scholars and
teachers, who In most instances
have served the college and the cause
OF the higher education In America
faithfully for many years, and whose
salaries In II profession that becomes
more exacting each year range from
two to three hundred dollars up TO
thirty.hve hundred dollars. These
teachers have, according to the belief
Of the members Of the graduate com
mittee who want to see that they are
better paid, other duties to perform be-
sides appearing In the Glass; room
must marry and bring up families OF
children; must pay their bills In return
for the necessities OF life, and, II pos
sible enjoy few OF It's luxurles, must
keep In touch woth the world OF events
must lay aside something against OLD
age and disability. II Ia u longer road
now than formerly for young Eradu-
ate to travel from his position as as.
sistant, which he may hold while still
studying for an advanced degree UP
through the various grades to u fun
professorship and all tho whilo stih
the cost Of living increases ana the
standards OF living In and around such
n city AZ Boston are being raised rap,
idly year by year, Temptations not in.
frequently assails the man or brilliant
attalnmonts TO leave the service OF the
college and get into something more
commercial and better remunorated.
The incomes of many OF the Harry
ard professorships and lecturcships are
derived from conditional conquests,
and yield amounts that vary somewhat
from year 10 year There is, further.
more, no fixed standard of salaries even
among the unendowed positions.
Making allowances, however, for 80
many exceptions that the general rule
seems hard to establish II may be said
that full professor In Harvard college
gets $4,000 year; an associate pro,
lessor, $4,000; an assistant professor,
$4,000; an instructor, $1,000 an ms,
sistant from $3.50 TO $500.
In 1904 there were In the colleg 81
full professors; associate professors;
80 assistant professors; lecturers;
tutor; SIS instructors; 81 assistants.
In each of these classes the salaries are
apt to vary greatly, A tabular view of
last years amounts shows that OF the
professors "A received 5000; ., $4,000,
15, $4,000: l, s3,6l5; 10. $500: g.,
$4,000; 1, $4,000; /. Sl,063. This gives
n total salaries item of $227,1l9. with
an actual average OF $685., which