The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-25
MIR. STOKES INTERVIEWED.
Gives His Opinion on the UndeEgradu-
 ate Fund.

Gives His Opinion on the UndeEgradu-
 ate Fund.
 When asked to express his opinion with reference to the undergraduate fund, recently raised at Yale, Mir. Stokes said yesterday:
 NO recent event Tn the Yale under graduate world seems to me of greater importance than the successful piedging of fund of over five thousand dollars to meet the financial necessities of the academic department, The money will doubtless be used by the corporation in any way which the subscribers com mittee formally suggests. It is not so much the direct influence for good that this money will have, although this is large, as the indirect results that ap- peal to me. It will be of great service in connection with trying to secure money from the graduates to show them that the students, appreciating the needs of the college, have them selves originated and successfully car ried out the raising of so large a fund. It will also mean great deal by get ting the men in college to appreciate Yale's financial needs. and by forming In them the habit of contributing to- wards meeting them. The alumni Un- iversity fund, which last year contribu- ted some thirty-five thousand dollars to the university, is the natural agency through which such subscriptions will pass in the future. The student body and the graduates are both beginning to realize that it costs more to run the | university than can be made up by ex- isting funds and tuition fees. The de- 1 fieits in recent years-exclusiye of the ! dining hall acciunts-haye been as fol Iowsa l901-2, s17000; 1902-3, $29,000; 19O3-4, s41,OOO; 19O4-5, tfirst half year), $1S,O0O. -.
 Tn face of this situation there are only three courses open,f aside from using the greatest are in all expendi- lures:
 First. The increase of tuition fees, which Yale could not support unless Harvard joined in similar movement, and this, at present, seems unlikely. Nor can Yale hold the west and regain the south with larger tuition fee. l Second. Reduction of salaries. This is out of the question. Professors sal aries at Yale vary from $3,000 to s, 750 a ear; assistant professors, from $1,- 300 to $2,000O; instructors and assis- tants. from $500 to s1,5O0 This scale is far lower than that of any other pro I fession, except the ministry and it is l lower than the scale of the ministry in large city churches. Harvard and Co., lumbia give considerably larger sala- ries.
 Third. The raising of increased en- dowment. This is virtually necessary and the only adequate solution. Yale i would have to add ten million dollars to her income producing funds if they V were to be made as large as Haryard's l EtAnything, such as the recent student movement, which increases thefnancial resources of the university, or of any of it's departments, should be most heartily encouraged.
 I MT. Stokes added that incidentally the success of this, student movement showed that there are many men in college who could easily afford an in crease of tuition fees. The regular fee could not be increased at present, but as it costs the university over a hun dred dollars more every year for the education of a student than the stu dent himself pays, he saw no reason why there should not be a sort of vol untary full tuition for those able and willing to meet the actual cost of their education.