The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-06
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
 ENDOWED CHAIRs- LOWELL LoNaFE1Low OR EQUALLY + D

oowed professorships, and so frequent iy expressive of the point of view of an earlier generation of benefactors. that 1t remains curiously true that of the present leaders of thought at this American College many of the best known and most widely respected are holders of unendowed professorships. among the present chairs perhaps the most striking Is that occupied from 1875 to 1898 by Professor Charles Eiiot Norton, now retired. who has probably stood, more than any other living man, for the culture and refine ment of this country; who is the first living authority on Dante the personal friend and correspondent of almost every great thinker and writer of England and America during the last half century, and an inspiring lectur- CT on the history of art to thousands or living Americans. The Charles Eliot Norton chair of art immediately sug- gests itself as one that would lend the same dignity to this department of Harvard as that conferred upon the Greek Department by the Eliot pro- fessorship of Greek, or that insepara- ble. at Cambridge or Oxford, from the Regius professorships. And in like fashion whoever knows the traditions of the college will immediately realize the appropriateness of establishing an- other endowed professorship in Greek in honor of Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles; in geology to the memory of Lous Agassiz; in Spanish to James Rus- sell Lowell or in Italian to Henry
 Wadsworth Lorgfellow. These names are but few among the many impor-
 tant and worthy men who could be thus honored. In mathematics for ex- ample. Harvard has had Benjamin
 Pierce; In chemistry, Josiah Parsons Cooke; in English. Francis James Child; in Latin, George Martin Lane; fin political econimy, Charles Franklin
 Dunbar; fin history, Henry Warren Tor
 rey; in philosophy. James Walker; in
 physics, Joseph Henry Lowering; in
 French, Ferdinand Bocher. Out of a total of over forty unendowed profess sorships-among the present holders Of them such men as William James
 John Knowles Paine, Nathaniel South gate Shaler. John Williams White. Josiah Royce. Hugo Munsterberg, Dem man Waldo Ross, Barrett Dendell, Ku-
 no Francke and George Lyman Kit
 tredge-these are of course a mere
 handful of possibilities, a mere sug-
 gestion of perhaps the widest field of wise endowment that could be found And what makes it seem likely that some of these endowments are not so very far distant Is the fact that sev- eral men of wealth are known to be
 turning their philanthropic interests
 from the building of brick and mortar | toward the raising of college salaries. The inevitable outcome of such en-
 dowment would be the raising of Har- ward salaries, and the movement has an even wider interest, for 1t will un- doubtedly call attention much more broadly than has yet been done to the inadequate pay of teachers throughout the country, and to the fact that the | remuneration for all forms of intel | lectual and spiritual work has Jagged sadly behind the advance of pay during the last half century for industrial and commercial workers Gifts of build | ings. laboratories and other structures have made our college distinctly re- | flective of this phase of our national
 development; but without sooner or | later a similar advance in the indi- vidual position of teachers it is fair ly evident that the development must
 remain one-sided and only partly ef- | ficient.