The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-10
CARNEGIE PENSIONS FOR AGED PROFESSORS
TR USTEES OF THE $1O,O0O, GOO FUND FINALLY ADOPT 4
 SCALE.

Income from the Fund VIII be About $5OO,OOO-Two Hundred Applications From Professors Already on File What q College Is-Definition of the State of New York Taken as Basis No Retiring Allowance to Exceed More That $3,OOO.
 New York, April 9.-The trustees of the Carnegie Foundation, who are charged with administering $1O,OOO,0OO gift of Andrew Carnegie to provide pensions for professors and teachers of institutions in higher learning in the United States and Canada, met here today and adopted a scale of pensions practically as outlined ill the federal charter of the foundation which was formally adopted at the meeting.
 The income from the fund will be about $5OO,OOO a year and there are on file now 200 applications from profess sors. It is expected the system will be in actual operation by June.
 The conference also defined what a college is, taking the definition of the state of New York as the basis, and de- scribed the requirements as to non- sectarianism
 No list of the institutions that will come under the rules was made. The rules as adopted by the trustees make the following provisions
 Any person 65 years of age, and not less than 15 years of service, as pro- lessor who is at the time of his re- tirement a professor in an accepted in- stitution, shall be entitled to an an- nual retirement allowance as follows: For active pay of $160O or less, an al- Iowance of $1,OOO shall be granted, pro- viding that no retiring allowance shall exceed 90 per cent. of active pay.
 For active pay greater than $1600 the retiring allowance shall equal s1,OO0, in- creased by $50 for each $lO0 in excess of $16OO
 I After twenty-five years service, re- l gardless of age, the retiring allowance was fixed as follows:
 For active pay of 1,6OO or less, an al- tiring allowance of $500 shall be grant ed, providing that no retiring allow ance shall exceed 80 per cent. of active pay.
 For active pay greater than $500 the retiring allowance shall equal $S00 in- creased by $40 for each $lOO of active pay in excess of $16OO.
 No retiring allowance shall exceed sSOOO.
 No person under the age of 65 or who has servel less than 25 years shall be entitled to retiring allowance, but the trustees may at their discretion pay any person otherwise eligible who has become incapable of discharging duties by permanent infirmity of mind or body, an allowance not exceeding that which he would be entitled to had he reached the age of 65.
 The definition of the character of the T institutions that will be allowed to come under the rules is described as follows:
 An institution to be ranked as a col lege must have at least six professors giving their entire time to college and university work; a course of four full years in the liberal arts and sciences and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of acad- emy or high school preparation or its equivalent in addition to pre-academic or school studies.
 "A technical school to be eligible mus have entrance requirements equiva- lent to those of a college in point 0! school preparation, and must offel course in pure and applied sciences, 1 Sectarianism is described as follows
 Any school whose charter, constitu ton or bylaws require teachers, stu dents or trustees to be of a certain re ligious body, or where strictly denom national tenets or doctrines are taught shall be deemed sectarian.'
 The applications of the various insti tptions for admission to the eligibl, list will be considered by the executive committee.