Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-19
TEACHER PENSION
FUND SS2,936,927
Sum Paid in Eight Years to
Schools and Colleges Un-
der Retiring Plan.

New York, May 19.-The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
| Teaching, founded by Andrew Carne-
gle with an endowment of $4,000, 900
to provide retiring allowances for
teachers and officers of high educa-
tional institutions in the United States
and Canada. has, during its eight yeers
of operation. distributed a total of
s2,s36,s27. according to the annual re-
port issued by its president, DIR. Henry
5. Pritchett, today.
The report for the year ending Sept.
80. 1913, shows that s57g,440 was dis
tributed in retiring allowances to pro-
fessors and ssO,949 in pepsions to their
widows, during that year.
The number of allowances for the
year was 33, making the present total
of allowances now in force. 403. The
average annual payment to an indi-
vidual is S1.703.
In connection with the Foundations
work as a center of information con-
cerning pensions, the president dis
cusses pension systems that are main
tanned by half a dozen colleges, the
development of new systems at Brown
university, the Rockefeller institute
and the American Museum of Natural
History, the new federated pension
system of the English universities and
the proposed system for the clergy of
the Episcopal church Among pen
sions for public school teachers the re-
port discusses the misfortunes of the
New York City system, and commends
plans of the new state system in Mas
sachusetts.
Much of the report is devoted to the
development of the work of the Foun-
dation into a separate division of edu-
cational inquiry. Its present work in
cludes a study of education in Yer
mont at the request of the Vermont |
educational commission, of legal edu- |
cation at the request of a committee |
of the American Bar association, and |
of engineering education at the re-
quest of a joint committee represent !
ing the national engineering societies. |
The report on education in Vermont, |
already distributed. represents the
first study that has been made OF
states educational activities as a
whole.
ne Sluug VI lt6ol C1NNHt4NA
been begun by a first hand inquiry
into the bar examinations of every
state. a special study of legal teaching
by Prof. Josef Redlich, who came from
Vienna for the purpose, and by per
sonal examination of each of the 16O
aw schools in the country.
Plans for the study of engineering
education are now being completed.
rhe earlier educational work OF the
is continued by commenda-
ion OF the present tendency OF college
entrance requirements toward both
elevation and fiexibility. The need for
urther improvement is shown by the
act that only 90 per cent of the stu
tents now in our colleges are high
chooI graduates. The decrease In the
lumber of medical schools in the
country from 162 in 1910 to 115 in
s13. and the rapid improvement OF
he better schools are commented up
N with appreciation. a general study
4 the problems of the state regulation
4 higher education is illustrated by {
detailed account of the recent crisis
n educational affairs in Iowa
The report further presents a study
Z the financial status of college teach
rs as compared with the SITUATION
resented in a similar study published
We years ago. The ordinary salary
Z a full professor in the institutions
ssociated with the Foundation is now
3 600. During the last FIVE years the II
alaries OF instructors have risen by l
bout $50; those of junior professors
how a gain of from s12O to 1925;
nose OF full professors show an in
rease from SIPS to $3.50.
The report concludes with a frank
-iticism of contemporary college cata- u
gues. :,
Riverside Club House Destroyed.
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