Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-06-08

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who from various internal evidences
in his story appears not TO be of the
teaching force at Harvard. G. H.
Ms financial circumstances. perhaps
i'll western college town, are plainly
typical. He is fortunate-in so far
forth as a college teacher who Is mar
ried can be said to be fortunate at all
in having a wife who for the past
nine years has kept itemiZed accounts
of the family expenses. At the end
of this period, during which the head
cf the family has been continuously
employed by the same institution, it
appears that the family expenditures
have averaged to the bread winners
salary at the ratio of 81 tC l. Only
from the fact that this college teacher
has small independent income has
he been able TO remain in the occupa-
ton at all Specifically, the average
annual expenditure of the family has
heen S279427; the average salary
paid G. H. NJ. during the nine years,
two of which were spent as instructor,
two as assistant professor, and the
next five as associate professor, has
amounted to $1,32S15. In other words,
this man whose preliminary education,
as, standards of modern scholarship go,
must have represented the expendi-
ture of from five to ten thousand dol
lars capital. and of from six to eight
of the best years of his life, has in re-
turn for the privilege of efficiently
conducting his Classes-for in any
American college of standing man
must do good work else he cannot hold
his position from year to year
actually paid out OF his own pocket
| 81 ,46612 annually.
In order to be very SPECIFIC G. H. M.
in the article in question makes de-
tailed statement regarding the tinan-
ces of an ideal family corresponding
10 his own-one of two adults, two
children and one maid of all work
Such family as this he assumes a
college teacher has a right to expect
to be able osupport by his own eff
forts. Thirty-one items of regular
I expenditure are set down, all of them
in proportions OF a character to seem
ia the average well-to-do American ex-
ceedingly moderate. They include
such items as So month for house
hold furnishings and repairs, s55 for
food expenses $40 for life insurance,
s35 for rent, $40 for doctors and den
usL's bills. SIS Tor clothing, SO for
postage, stationery, kilograms, tele-
phones, express, freight, carriage and
allied expenses. 1t is found that when
these and the other items of the same
sort are added up they give a total Of
$262 so monthly, or $3,1b0.00 annual
". The writer of the article ex-
plains that his own family has been
/, somewhat less expensive than this
ideal family because in the nine years
OF his service he has saved nothing
toward old age, because during the
| first two years there we're no children
ard no servant, and because owning a
house the family has saved on the
item of rent. Accepting the estimate
that the average college professors
salary is $4,000 he arrives at the con.
clusion that In order to allow for
what, considering the standards Of liv-
ing wage, salaries ought to be largely
advanced.
In view Of such conditions as are
revealed by the experiences of men
like G. H. NJ the Harvard committee
believes that Mr.. Carnegies gift af-
fords starting point toward amelio-
ration and that the logic Of 1t should
be followed up as rapidly and consist
emily as possible. About two years
ago Professor J. J. Thompson OF the
University of Cambridge, England,
warned American universities that
they are spending too much proper
tionateIy on buildings and equipment
and too little upon men; thanks to the
response Of Harvard graduates to the
needs of heir alma mater that warn
ing is likely very shortly to cease to
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