New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-02

for in country teaching salaries high enough
Nor IS 1t desirable that they should be. The
gift OF the sacred spirit OF truth and knowledge Is
neither TO bs bought sold FOR money. On
me other hand the vow OF poverty cannot. without
condition Of admission to the teaching profession
l believe this problem now confronts us in an
university professors in the United States Is only
SECS or me @ anS t salary Snv seldom on ne9 ore 5R
cities IN which the 5000 $1,000 actually paid
represents no increase.
Referring to the larger pecuniary returns from
other fields of labor. he said
am not asking however that any such pecuniary
provision be made for the scholars and scientists
te Work 0 less Is T n se the %UrE Of
the professional business man, for 1t is OF such
anv money equivalent But the men who devote
themselves to the intellectual life not attracted
be corrupted if salaries We're made so large that
they might even become a temptation on their own
account
President Schurman said It was a notorious
fact that professional salaries had remained
about stationary for the last two decades, and
that during that period the cost of living had
enormously increased. He recommended large
endowment. which would enable the authorities
of privately endowed colleges and universities
to advance the salaries Of their professors and
instructors by at least 80 per cent. He praised
Mr.. Carnegies gift for retiring pensions.
He said. in closing:
The man or the men. therefore, who provide en-
dowments to secure for the faculties OF our col
leges and universities the ablest and best brains
service to the cause of American Civilization and
solve a problem and relieve situation which have,
tion naS judgment NO" assumed alarming p'OpO
Those at the guests table were Governor
Hughes, President Schurman. Theodore P.
Shonts Frank H. Hiscock Theodore A. Bling
ham, Howard Hasbrouck, Henry w. Sackett.
Bert Hansen. Eugene Prayer. Walter c. Kerr.
Henry r. Ickelheimer, Merritt E. Haviland John
De Witt Warner and DR.. Robert T. Morris
Justice Frank H. Hiscock, Of the Court Of
Appeals, and Police Commissioner Theodore "A.
Bingham, also spoke. Howard HasbrOuck, pres
ident of the Cornell University Club. acted as
postmaster In introducing the Governor he
said they were glad to that man could
succeed in public life in spite Of having been
a college professor. and that those who were in
Cornell with him thought of him more as an In
dulgent professor. who left impression that
would last as long as Cornell lasted. rather than
the Governor Of a great state.
Back of the speakers table was an excellent
life sized oil portrait of the Governor From the
balconies of the great ballroom hung Cornell
banners and Comedian and white bunting.
There was lively glee club that sung a choice
collection of the old college songs and bright
parodies,
In order to reach the city to attend the dinner
the Governor came all the way from Canaan
daigua on a special train. which travelled part
of the way at more than sixty miles an hour.
Leaving there at 1925 in the morning. he
reached the Grand Central Station at I:45.
Dressing on the train. he went direct to the
dinner.
The diners overlooked into the anterooms and
into part of the Aston Gallery. 1t was said
that the ia diners present established record
for college dinners in this city.
The souvenir was bronze colored bust Of the
Governor.