New-York tribune., 1908-07-01
PAY OF PROFESSORS
4
CONDITIONS IN GERM4NY.
Comparison of Teachers Status
Made by Carnegie Foundation.

pages contains the results of an investigation made
for the Foundation into the financial the
college professor in America and in Germany. 1t
paints picture which is certainly not of glow
ing coiors. far income is concerned. for the
American scholar. and il ne were of an envious
disposition @ould make him look with covetous
eye his German brother. who ranks financially
with all except the nobility and the most
ful business of his land. President Pritchett
Of the Foundation summarizes the deductions from
tie data obtained follows:
The average salary of full professor in the
nearly s4.S6o. the average being somewhere
$500 In other words the full professor in the
which are financially strongest. receives the
$4,000 These statistics show in brief that an
American teacher who has gone through college
self for the profession of teaching. may hope TO
sl.250 thirty-one a salary of sl.750 at thirty
three a salary of s2.25o and at thirty,fve-at
fessorshipEs salary Of $500 S''''e' '9 '''
In less than half dozen Of these institutions
does the maximum salary amount to $4,000, and
these maximum salaries are open to very small
number even in the institutions which pay them"
He continues
:, The German university professor may expect
n n Tine far greater financial and social reward
fgrhern1ore 1 piace Of far greater security and
n S,6h fnI p1of91toG % for old age and for bis wife
IN contrast with that in the United States by
m1uneration which can ft q wide scale of merit
I'm e a SIussgling ss1is pT5Eatdooept has bare living
2 nnanciaI return comparable with that of well
On the other hand there fs'ai is marked contrast
rofessor submte m e Tfh & the f German % nan
american a German who possesses such ability
professor and who prepares himself for univer-
81 Sly teachlng must expect to study until the age
oI thlrty with no financial return. TO study and
teach as decent till nearly thirty-six with an
teach from fhrfy-six to forty+one With n' am sn TO
1qsl 6b remgneTaton emu Se Of from $500 $4,000 by
VII continue TO receive his salary until hfs death
German university Involves period of trsin m
ing ana OF self-denial far longer and more ex-
submits '''8' 10 "hioh the American professor
According TO the bulletin:
me payment of fair salary TO the teacher is
ly work and the advance of resesrp U1 sonolaT r
lese and university teachers. A large proportion
gaged in turning the grndstone Of sns are en-
employment WIKI one hand while thev carry ON
to the rise in the living the proportion nf
tsachers VINO seek TO Increase their incomes in
this way is very large. The method Of oreanIza
zion Of the American university also throws a
he SoI1' r GI eTeeuaive s work upon members of
times paid Both processes cut down the oppor-
tunity for scholarly study and take away from
the dignity. simplicity and high-nindedness of the
Under the present salary schedules and admin
lstrauve methods in many American universities
oFfss fg are rs CARED on against
The universities in Germany and of England The
cisl sense The writer of popular textbooks and
magazine articles receives not only a fair fnan-
isT reputation which is to his advantage. The
becomes first authority in any branch Of science
Of literature will receive scant financial return
for the publication of his monographs but he wins
through such publication high honor and respect
among scholars for himself and for his university.
? decided impetus among a few Institutions of
sFn 9nng dg to to fo s9esnize the the t yaiue Of sch
now when many colleges and universities must
them in connection with their teaching the oppor-
tunities for its cultivation
Columbia University spends the most money for
teachers, the amount in the course of the year
being a.l45on. Those which spend above 800 600
year for their teachers besides Columbia are:
Harvard S541 go. University OF Chicago, sSsa0o0;
University Of Michigan. SS6 00 Yale s524 577; Cor
nell s5os5i; University Of Illinois, s491 1,65: Univer
sity Of Wisconsin. s4s9s1o: University of Pennsyl
vania, s43511; University Of California s40s 900;
Leland Stanford Junior S355eoO: University of To-
ronto, $324"lo; Princeton. sos $50; Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology, S3u0gJ; University of
Minnesota, s2S3oo Ohio State University. s244.oc0;
University Of Nebraska, $4,000; University OF
Missouri S259.l1o; McGn University. s2z5.oo; New
York University, $4,000; Northwestern University,
s27s157; Johns Hopkins. S211 013.
There are only eight universities the average
salary Of whose fun professors is $500 more.
They are: College Of the City of New York. a.
49, Harvard, s443; Columbia, 42se; Leland Stan
ford Junior, 5000; University of Chicago, $500;
University Of Toronto g 600; Yale, $500; Univ-r
sity Of Pennsylvania $500
The General Theological Seminary of this city
also pays each Of It's seven professors $1,000 and
furnishes them with a house.
OF the institutions from which reports were re-
oelved il appeared that one-third of the degree
granting institutions pay average less than
S.Ho year 10 their fun professors. There are
thrty-fve which pay less than 500 These insti-
tu'ions. however, hardly doing college work
arcr byI schoo
some instances grammar school subjects.
Except by the elevation Of a professor to the
presidency Of college it is impossible for him to
receive anywhere salary Of greater than $500.
This IS the maximum at Columbia. 1t is the salary
obtained under the old financial system, a system
no longer retained In only FIVE institutions in
America IS IL a possibility TO obtain tnan
$50 Four Of these are universities in New York.
Boston. Chicago and Philadelphia The bulletin
says:
eineer does not have 10 attain extrsordinary
einnence TO receive times the salary which
x the utmost hope Of the college teacher. Good.
Flooding men who attend diligently to their pro
fesson but who are without unusual ability, often
5.aln ~ tnloole ne an income considerably hlgber
than man Of the greatest genius receive in
strange that the possibility teaching seldom pre-
f itself seriously nowadays to the best students
the love Of fescb,q stdIi aSd Is resasreb 1a The
hscaI arrangements of the profession Of college
- zeIiis a sre Just such would attract mediocre
activity the world held out To him very much The
need Tor large prizes is pressing
Tenure Of office is becoming more secure ac
S0fplhs 10 ule bulletin although the American
professor mas not yet received the measure of GO
curity ana freedom of exnression rhio, ,t,o -
lessor IN some OF the European univer.,t4es ba.
-" professor IN a state university who had been
"ecteo 10 the Legislature of his state would dare
10 stand up and cr1Icise the anr,ro,r+s IT,, g.
!. Is rTrsE its agt