University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-04-25
The Future of the Professor.

The Future Of the Professor.
A college professor who has passed
the age and opportunity of breaking
into something else may now teach
on without misgivings-if his faculty
be one OF the heirs Ot the Carneg!s
Foundation. 4 change has been made
in the regulations of this endowment
whereby the Years which Il man con
sumes as an instructor may count to-
ward his receipt OF a pension. Here
tofore, the rule has been to recognlZh
only twenty-five years OF full profea-
sorship. Under the new code the line
OF retirement is drawn at k'. and, en-
cept in case of disability. those WHO
leave the profession earlier-even al
ter a quarter OF a century of teaching
shall not receive the benefit For
since the object of the Carnegie Foun-
datiOn, now starting upon its h1th
wear. is the advancement Of teach
ing" it tends to keep good men iii
the service by equali2ing The financial
outlook with that of other pursuits.
Tie fourth annual report of th"
president and treasurer sets forth that
10 pensions. amounting to $iI1,OUO,
Wera granted in 1903. This makes Il
total of $466.0 which the Foundation
is paving to 3lS professors, represent
ing l39 colleges. These cover forty
three states OF the Union and prov
inceS Of Canada. Seven colleges were
admittesl to the accepted lisl jn 1909
Coe College. Iowa; Swarthmore Col
lege. Pennsy lvania; the unir ersities
of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota
Missouri and the University of To-
ronte.
The governors and legislatures OF
twenty-siN other states asked that
their universities be accepted. The
admission of Only five Of these inst
tutiOns and one in Canada, after Il
year in which taX-suppored colleges
had become eligible, indicates the rig
orous standards Of the trustees. p
titions We're denied for articulation
with three-year high schools, slacls
entrance regulations. or weak depar,-
mantS Of law and medicine. Also. IN.
trustees look with extreme disfavor
upon those states where there is com
petition between two-taysupporta in
stitutiuns-the university and agricul
tural college. The aim is always to
ward efficiency with the least possible
duplication.
Two Institutions. the Randolph
Macon Woman's College and George
Washington University. retired from
the accepted list in 1909. The forme:
Withdrew upon deciding that its cleo
ton of trustees must be approved by
Methodist conference, since Mr..
Andrew Carnegie. when he first placed
$10,000,00O in the hands of the trus.
ices Of the Foundation-with an in
come of $500. 0.000-stipulated that nc
college under the governance of re-
ligious sect should be included in its
distribution. In consequence, the Ran
dolph-Macon Woman's College voluil-
tarily made the fund unavailable for
itself. The reason given by the FOun-
dation for ending its connection with
George Washington University is that
this institution has impaired its eli
dowment. and that it arbitrarily dis
missed two professors.
Sections of the presidents report
are devoted to politics and their dan
ger in state institutions, college ad-
vertising. which has grown to enor-
nous and not entirely favorable pro
portions. and the functions of the col
lege trustee-Collier's Weekly.