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

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that was much larger in the earlier
days OF the college has a salary that IN
the earlier days OF the college, has a
| salary that in 1904 amounted to
| $l,11S.44. The lecturers average
| $781.25 each, while the compensation
to instructors ranges from $1,000 down
| to 800, with an average OF 1898 %.
The. assistants, n class composed for
the most part OF young men who are
being tried out for the higher posi-.
| lions, or getting themselves ready to
teach elsewhere, receive anywhere
/ from 1920 down TO $20 the average
last year being $328.96.
These salaries from the point or
view OF prosperous Harvard graduates
are very low, considering the duties
and responsibilities involved and the
arduous work of preparation that
man OF good natural endowment must
go through in order to get chance
TO teach in Harvard college; and some
people with whom a teacher necessar-
lily comes into contact while he holds
position In the service of the univer-
sity. Men do not teach at Harvard
or at any other American university
OF good standing-for the sake or tho
money there Is in teaching. Anybody
who Is competent to be n full pro.
lessor in charge of department OF
Harvard college should be capable OF
securing several times the income Of
his professorship in some other line OF
work. But there are teachers who do
not measure their services by a fnan-
cal standard. The spirit of Louis
Agassiz, who refused to go into com
merclal scheme because he had no
time to make money Is still very strong
at Harvard The faculty list contains
the names OF not few men of inter
national reputation who by merely
slgnlfying that they were on the out
look for some thing better could step
ut once into better.paid positions than
they now hold but who prefer to re-
main, even at pecuniary sacrifice,
where they believe. they can DO the
best that Is In them.
II is notable that the movement for
an Increase of salaries has not come
from among the teaching force, but
that 1t was started and is being pushed
among the alumni by disinterested
graduates who believe that the efiic.
lency, not only of Harvard, but, be-
cause OF the effect cXertcd throughout
the country. Of every other American
college, Will be promoted by, the estab-
lishment OF u higher standard OF com
pensation.
Until recently the scale OF salaries
In Harvard college advanced rather
rapidly from generation to generation
though never perhaps In proportion to
tho advance In the emoluments of the
other professions and commercial oc-
equations into which college graduates
ordinarily go. That Is to say, 1t Is
probably true that In colonial days
the Harvard teacher was quite on n
financial equality with the successful
lawyer and the prosperous butcher
or baker-as today he certainly Is not
and was not In the greater part OF the
nineteenth century.
In the very earliest days of the col.
lego the salaries were small and I'M
certnin--Just AZ everything financial
was small and uncertain In that period
OF beginnings. Even the presidents
annual stipend of eighty or ninety
pounds was not fixed but. as 1t was
paid out of the state rates, depended
upon the fairfulness of the tax-gath-
erer and the financial condition OF the
taxpayers, In the eighteenth century
however, conditions became to an OK.
tent settled, profossorships were en-,
dowcd--such as a Hollis professCrship
OF divinity In Ireland the Rar ard
professor received compensation which
considering the spending power OF
money and the prevailing standards oi
living, was very fair At the beginning
of the revolution the officers OF the e,r
lege consisted Of the president, WITH
salary of about 81 500, three pro.
fessors averaging $1,000 each four
tutors, with perhaps half MS much, Il
treasurer who received $500 and II.
braran $500. A family could live rea.
sonably we'll in those days on nm In
come of one thousand dollars,
The war with Great Britain natural.
~ disturbed the finances of Harvard
but after prosperity was renewed m
der the first president OF the United
States the college salaries through
good endowments good investments
and increase in the number OF students
We're gradually raised In 1910 Presl.
dent Quincy received $2,eS5 Prof.
Walker, $4,000, Prof Charming, $1,000
Prof. Beck, $l,S00; Prof Pierce, $4,000
Prof. longfellow, $500. Such amounts
were not munitcent in that day, but
there are number Of fun professors
n the college today who get little II
any more, 10 say nothing of the whole
class of assistant professors who are
neorly all men In the maturity of their
powers.
In 1865, according TO tables prepared
by Allen nanforth. controller. the sal.