Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-10
The Carneoie Fund for Professors.

go to aged college professors. Certain
provisions were made as to the colleges
which should share the benefits of this
| fund. and as to the length of pro-
fessrr's service before he should be
eligible to retire on pension, and the
gift was hailed as a noble help to the
F., cause Of higher education. The trus-
| tees Of this fund have just made their
to see how the scheme is beginning to
work out. Ex-President Pritchett of
| the Massachusetts School OF Technol-
| ogy is the administrative head of the
| fund, and President Eliot of Harvard
heads the board of trustees.
The report shows that 81 colleges and
| universities in this country and Canada
have been placed on the accepted list
and their aged professors will now be
retired on substantial pensions from
| year to year after they have rendered
the required term of service. Two
| classes of institutions Mr.. Carnegie
| rigidly excluded from sharing the
| benefits of the fund. state institutions
and UNCONVENTIONAL colleges. This lat
, ter restriction. as was doubtless the
! lose the sectarian hold on a consider
| able number Of colleges throughout the
, couptrv and tbic ,poynmont ic Snroad
| ing. While most OF our eastern col
leges were founded by one religious
sect or another. the hold of this par
| ticular sect upon their management
has been gradually weakened until now
in nearly all cases it is merely techni-
cal, if indeed there is any evidence of
it to be found at all. This sectarian
origin is the reason why not one of our
! three Maine colleges appears upon the
list of accepted institutions as given
out. Bowdoin, which has long been
wholly free from any semblance of
| Sectacian management, will be placed
upon the list as soon as certain techni-
/ cal requirements are 1ulfllled. ana
/ Bates has already prepared to amend
/ its charter so as to free it entirely from
sectaran bonds are much stronger and
/ il is not likely. for the present at least,
to be placed upon the list. Such Baptist
institutions as Chicago University and
Brown are also excluded.
The list of accepted institutions as
announced by the trustees Of the fund
is as follows: Amherst BelOit, Carleton
College. Case School of Applied Science,
Clark University. Clarkson School Of
Technology, Colorado College, Column
bia. Cornell Dartmouth. George WASH
ington University, Hamilton, Harvard,
Hobart, Johns Hopkins, Knox College,
Iowa College. Lawrence University.
Lehigh. Leland Stanford Jr. University,
Marietta College, Massachusetts Insti-
tuto of Technology, Middlcbury Col
lego. Mount Holyokc College. New
York University. Oberln. Brooklyn
Polytechnic. Princeton, Radcliffe,
Eilon College. Smith College, Stevens
Institute of Technology. Trinity Col
lcgc. Tufts College. Tulane University,
Union College. University of Pcnnsyl-
vari;,, University of Rochester. Uni
vcrsity of Vermont. NaSsar. Wabash
College. Washington University. at st.
Louis; Washington and jefferson Col
lcge. Wellesley. Wells College. West
crn Reserve University, Williams Col
lego Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Western University of Pennsylvania
ami Yale. In Canada the accepted
schools are Dalhousic University. at
Halifax, and McGll University, at
Montreal
F,ighty-tiGht professors have been
retired by the Carnegie foundation on
pension Eight widows of professors
have been pcnsioncd. OF the pcnsioned
professors IS were in accepted institu-
tio,S and - were individual allowances
10 men. some of whom We're not in the
1 accented colleges. but were conspicuous
for services rendered to education
Among the number was ~. T. Harris
United States commissioner of educa-
ton The foundation trustees have
: adoptcd IA sliding scale, under which a
, retiring professor who has small
: salary gets a proportionatcly larger
pension than the one on iarSei
: salary. The pensions vary from Ssol
to s. 600 and average $l.552 to those III
arccpted institutions, $1.302 to indi-
| vidull professors and SS33 10 Wlu""S
liz all. the pension list is now ST., l3o