Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-16
What the Schools are Doing.

TO the average citizen of Maine but
( here is one made public by the United
States Bureau of Education. that will
interest all our readers. According to
the bulletin issued by this bureau on
the range of salaries of heads and fac
ulties of state-aided institutions, the
highest paid head of any institution of
this class is the president of the Uni
versity of California, who receives
$4,000 a year and house. The presi-
dents OF Illinois University and Cor
nell University each receive $4,000 a
: year and house, while the president OF
the University of Minnesota gets $10,-
ooa without house From these fig
ures. the presidents salaries run down
as low as s., 400
The salaries of the faculty members
range from $50 year for the least
paid tutor to $4,000 d year for the
best-paid full professor, both extremes
being touched at Cornell.
The Bureau of Educators bulletin
shows that the United States now con-
tains exactly one hundred universities
and other institutions of higher edu-
cation which depend in considerable
measure on the state or federal gov
ernment for their support. OF these
16 are agricultural and mechanical
colleges for negroes. -Four of these
state-aided institutions have more
than 400 members on their faculties
namely, the University of California
( with a faculty of a2l; the University
OF Illinois, with $50; Cornell University
with co.: and the University of Wis
consin with 4S6.
The biggest gifts reported by the
colleges considered for the period un-
der discussion. namely. the college
year ended last June 80. came to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy. which benefits to the extent of ST.
10000 from the generosity of three
donors The University of Illinois re-
ports that the State legislature has
appropriated s3.5l9,S00 for its support
FOR the next two years, and has also
made provision for the future of the
institution by levying a one-mill tax,
which two years hence should allow 1t
about s2,25o,o0o year. Cornell has
construction work in hand which will
cost sl,052oeo.
Since this bulletin was issued by the
Buread of Education comes the an
nouncement of sudden wind-faH to
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
which sends it on the way TO the pm
nacle of prosperity-s $. 100000 in a
lump from an unknown donor. The
country will offer congratulations ana
other great educational institutions
rejoice at Techs good fortune.
AT the same time we should not fail
to congratulate Princeton on it's
showing as an institution of rare en-
couragement to the young man with
his way to win.
Princetons Bureau of Student Self
sand announced the plans it has made
for extending it's activities. About $50
students are either entirely or partial
ly working their way through the Uni
xersity In the present freshman class
ten men who entered college with no
funds at all with which to pay their
expenses. one man who had $40, an
other who had s25, another $50, anoth-
who had 800 each, and so on There
are in all 10 freshmen who entered
with less than $500 for the year, and
of these forty-six had 5000 or less
Tile University makes it as easy as
possible for self-supporting students
by temporarily renting the greater
part of their tuition, SO long as they
maintain a satisfactory standing III
their classes. Such students are re-
ouired to sign a non-interest-be bearing
note for the amount RENTED, and are
expected to pay the money back wher
they are financially able to do so
There are also a considerable number
of university scholarships, which car.
nv with them permanent remission Of
all or nearly all of the tuition charges
on the rolls of the Bureau of stu
was formerly bootblack and who il
now earning money by following hi
former trade in the college during hi
free hours: another was guide il
the Maine woods. and became inter
ested in college when acting as I
guide to some college men; anothe
was an elevator boy in an apartment
house, and another worker on a farm
doing all OF his preparatory work b,
studying nights.
There are a great many differen
ways in which students find employ
ment One of the most remunerativ
methods is tutoring. Students VIII
maintain high standing in their stu
died may receive official authorization
to obtain work AS qualified tutors
A guide from the Maine woods VIII
works his way through a great insti
tuition of learning is composed of tn
stuff of which big men are made Flu
ture generations may have occasion t
honor the name of this boy and tn