Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-09
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This year also has seen the first distri-
button of the income of the Carnegie
foundation OF 100000 for the payment
OF retiring allowances TO college profess
sors. There are in the English speaking
countries Of North America more than four
hundred institutions calling themselves coll
legss or universities. Information secured
from s2s Of them shows that In these there
are professors, associate or adjunct pro-
fessors and assistant professors to the
number OF s.207 who receive total Of
1851, $50, or an average of $3.50 a year.
OF these institutions 2ls have some denom-
national afaliation. and pay an average
annual salary to each professor OF N.1s0.
Fifty-one are not to be found In either
Of the other DIVISIONS. and pay an aver
age salary of 1907. As the living eS-
penses Of professor are necessarily
come in other vocations. he has little OPP
'portunity to save money for the period Of
old age or for the support of his family
should he chance to die In middle life.
Not only does this fact serve to prevent
high grade men from entering the teach
ing profession. but 1t also serves to keep
on the active roll men who ought to be IN
the retired list their places being filled by
younger, more active and progressive In
structors.-k
In preparing its plan for distributing the
pensions, the managers Of the fund have
also made an effort to standardlze the col
leges. They have decided that a college
is an institution having ''at least six pro-
fessors giving their entire time to college
and university work, a course OF four full
years In liberal arts and sciences, and
requiring for admission not less than the
usual four years OF pre-academic or gram
mar school studies"
A college. In order to participate In the
allowances, must also have a productive
endowment of not less than 100000. AS
the college is to be the unit in the distribu-
ton of the pensions (the fund distributing
its allowances through college treasurers,
those colleges that meet the requirements
OF the fund being given the privilege OF
designating the recipients). the announce
ment of standard Is bound to have It's
effect in raising many so-called colleges
to a higher educational level. Already GER
tain OF the small colleges that do not meet
the requirements are trying to rearrange
their stats and courses so that their
standard will be that of the Carnegie foun-
dalton and enable them to secure its bene-
fits Neither professors in institutions sup
ported by public funds, nor connected
with institutions under control OF a sect.
or which require their trustees. their Of
hcers. faculties Tor a majority thereby to
belong TO any specified sect. and which
impose any theological test as a condition
Of entrance therein or of connection there
with" are TO beneht from the Carnegie
fund. The trustees of the fund made the
FIRST provision because they desire to edu-
cate the American people to the idea OF
providing pensions for their teachers, and
do not believe In providing private funds
for public institutions. This year the al
lowances granted amounted to 100000. and
the following nifty colleges and universities
were accepted as institutions which could
draw upon the fund for pensions for their
professors: Amherst, Beloit, Carleton,
Colorado, Dartmouth, Hamilton. Hobart.
Knox, Iowa, Marietta, Middlebury, Mount
Holyoke, Oberlin, Radcliffe, Ripon. Smith.
Trinity. Union. vassar. Wabash, Wellesley.
Wells. Williams. Tufts and Washington
and Jefferson colleges, Clark. Columbia,
Cornell. George washington, Harvard,
Johns Hopkins, Lawrence, Lehigh. Leland
Stanford, New York. Princeton, Tulane.
washington and Western Reserve uniyer-
stiles, the University of Rochester, Wor-
cester Polytechnic institute. Case School
OF Applied Science. Garrison School OF
TechnoRiogy, Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology. Polytechnic institute. Stevens
Institute of Technology, University Of Penn
sylvania and Western University OF Penn
sylvania, in the United States, and Dali
housie and McGill universities of Canada
Under certain conditions widows Of pro-
fessors may also receive pensions from
the fund. It has been ascertained that
there are 1900 in the United States who
may ultimately claim pensions under the
requirements. About 10 per cent OF these
have reached the ago when they may ask
for them. Most OF them have not YET
done so.