The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-19
|W|DE DISTRIBUTION
| OF CARNEGIE FUNDS
SIS, 100000 Has Been Provided for
Allowances for Teachers and Of
fcers of Higher Education
(By Associated Press.)

gle Foundation for the Advancement
Of Teaching, founded by Andrew
| drew Carnegie with an endowment
Of $l1 1,000,o 900 to provide retiring
allowances for teachers and officers
OF high educational operation, dis
tributcd total of $2,936,921, ac-
cording to the annual report issued
by its president, Dr. Henry 5.
Pritchett, today
The report Tor the year ending
Sept, 80, 1913, shows that $579,-
f40 was distributed in retiring al
| low ances to professors and $SO,9l9
in pensions to their widows, during
that year.
The number of allowances for the
year was thirty three, making the
present total of allowances now in
force 403. The average annual pay
ment to an individual is $l,703.
In connection with the Founda-
tion's work as Il center of informa-
tion concerning pensions, the preSi-
dent discusses pension systems that
are maintained by half dozen col
leSes, the development of ney sys-
tens at Brown University, the Rock
ctCll2r Institute ana the American
/ N,- nr = lti M
federated pension system of the
English universities and the pro-
posed system for the clergy of the
Episcopal chur.... Among pensions
,Or pubic ScaoO! teachers The report
discusses the mlslortunes Of the
New York city system, and COM
mcnda plans Of the new state sys-
TEN in Massachusetts
Much OF tn. report is devoted TO
the development of the work of the
Foundation into d separate division
of educational inquiry. It's present
work includes study of education
in Vermont at the request of the
Vermont Educational commission, of
legal education at the request of a
committee of the American Bar AS
sociation, and of engineering educa-
tion at the request of joint com
mittee representing the national en-
| o;nanrinu conintiac
The report on education in Yer
mont, already distributed, repre-
sents the first study that has been
) made of a States educational activi-
ties as whole.
The study of legal education has
been begun by first hand inquiry
| into the bar examinations of every
State, a special study of legal teach
ing by Professor Josef Redlich, Wht
lcame from Vienna for the purpose
land by a personal examination o
each of the 100 law schools in tn,
country.
> Plans for the study of engineer
ing education are now being com
pleted. The earlier educational worl
: of the foundation is continued b.
> commentator of the present tend
ency of college entrance require
ments toward both elevation AM
neXibility. The need for further i'm
u provement is shown by the fact tha
= only 55 per cent of the students nov
. in our colleges are high school grad
luates. The decrease in the numbe
of medical schools in the countr
from 1862 in 1910 to 1l5 in 1913
= and the rapid Improvement OF tn
better schools are commented upo
= with appreciation A general stud
= of the problems Of the State regula
= tion of higher education is illustra'
> ed by detailed account of the re
cent crisis in educational affairs |
Iowa.
The report further presents
study of the financial status of co
lage teachers as compared with tn
. situation presented in simila
:, study published five years ago. I'll
ordinary salary of a full profess(
in the institutions associated wit
- the Foundation is now $4,000.
During the last five years the sa
aries of instructors have risen
about $50; those of junior profe
n sors show a gain of from 1920
of ($225; those of full professors sho
e an increase from $t25 to $3.50.
lis The report concludes with fral
iii criticism of contemporary collie
It. catalogues.