Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-21
$m2,936,927 IS
DISTRIBUTED
IN EIGHT YEARS CARNEGIE FOUN
DATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF
TEACHING HAS EXPENDED
LARGE AMOUNT.
100000
PROVIDES RETIRING ALLOW
ANCE FOR TEACHERS AND OFF
GERS OF HIGH EDUCATION IN
STITUTIO\S AND IN CANADA.
(issociafcd Press Corrcspondcncc.)

New York. May 20--Thc Carnegie
Foundation for the advancement of
Teaching. founded Nv Andrew Carne-ie
with an endowment of Sl5.OOn.OOO 10
provide retiring allowances for teach
ers and officers Of high educational in
7titutionS in the United States and
Canada. has. during It's eight years Of
operation. distributed a total of p.
936.927. according to the annual re
mort issued by its president. DIR. Henry
:. Pritchcit. today.
The report for the year ending Sep
'cmber 30. 1913. shows that S5T9.4i0
was distributed IN retiring allowances
20 professors and SS09i9 in pensions
q their widow !. during that year.
The number Of allowances for the
year was thirtv-three. making the pres
mt total If allowances now in force
i03. The average annual payment tn an
Individual il Sl.TO3.
In connection with the Foundation
work a. a center Of information Q
'erning pensions. the president discuss
Is pension systems that are maintained
" half q dozen colleges. the develop
ncnt Of new systems nj Brown univer-
,ity. the Rockefeller Institute AMI the
american Museum Of Natural History.
he new federated pension system Of the
English universities and the proposed
ystcm for the clergy of the Episcopal
-hurch. Among pensions for public
schools teachers the report discusses
he misforiuncs of the New York City
system. and comm,nds plans Of the new
state system in Massachusetts.
Much Of the report il devoted 70 thc
development Of the work Of the Foun-
lation into a separate division of the
educational inquiry. It's present work
includes a study of education in Ncr
mont AZ the request Of the Vermont
Educational Commission. Of legal cduca-
ion N the request OF a committee Of
the American Bar Association. and Of
engineering education III tho request Of
/, joint committee representing the ma.
ional engineering societies.
The report on education IN Vermont,
llrrady distributed. represents the first
study that has been made Of "A states
educational activities rs = whole
The study If legal education has been
'cgun by a first inquiry into the bar
Xamination If every state. y special
tudv of legal teaching hy Professor
Josef Rcdlich. who came from Vienna
or the purpose. and by n personal OK
animation Of each of tia cleo law schools
"A the country.
Plans for the study Of engineering
rlnration are now being completed.
The earlier educational work Of The
'nmdatinn j. continued hy commcnda-
ION Of the present tendency Of college
ntrancc requirements toward both ele-
alton and feasibility. The need for fur
her Improvement is shown by the fact
hat only ~ per cent If the students
ow in our colleges are high school
-raduafcS. TIE decrease in the number
r medical schools IN the country from
- in 1910 to 115 i'm 1913. anil the rap
II movement ~ the better schools are
omancnted upon with appreciation. A
General study If the problems Of the
cate regulation of niger education is
Illustrated hv \ detailed recount If the
cccnt crisis in educational affairs in
owa.
The report further presents a study
{ the financial status Of college tea
hers rs compared with the situation
resented in 4 similar study published
I've wears ago. The ordinary salary
7 u full professor IN the institutions
sSo-iatcd with the Foundation is now
1000 During the last five wears the
~alarieS Of instructors have risen by
bout 5000: those Of iHmior professors
how 4 gain Of from $4,000 To $4,000;
hose Of full professors show an increase
II from Sl2J.OO "a $4,000.
The report concludes with a frank
riiiciSm Of contemporary! college cata-
l~'ogueS.