The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-19
THREE MILLION
DISTRIBUTED To
TEACHERS
Annual Report Shows Use
Made of Carnegie Founda-
ton During Eight Years of
It's Operation.

New York. May l9.-The Carnegie
foundation for thp advancement OF
teaching, founded By Andrew Car
negie with an endowment Of $4,000
600 TO provide retiring allowances for
teachers and officers 81 high cduca-
tional Institutions ia the United
states and canada, has, during it's
eight years OF operation. distributed
a total of $3.50. g2T. according to the
annual re- q issued by its president.
Dr. Henry =. Pritchett. today.
The = port for the year ending Sep
TENDER 800, 1912, shows mat S55a,44u
was distributed la retiring allowances
to professors. and fN0.a41 in pensions
To- their widows during that year
The number Of allowances Tor the
year was thirty three. making the
present total allowances noW in force
1913. The average annual payment To-
an individual is Sl,7o3.
In connection with the f]ouudatiou's
work as e. center OF Information con-
corning pensions the president dts
cusses pension systems that are main
tanned by hair "a dozen colleges. the
development of new system. at Brown
university. the Rockefeller institute
and tho American Museum OF Natural
History. the now federated pension
system Of the English unlNer~itirs ami
tho proposed system FOR the CLERGY OF
the Episcopal church Among ucl-
sions for public SCHOOL teachers th.
report discusses IN. misfurtuneg oi
the New York city system. and corn .
| meuds plans OF the now state system
In Massachusetts.
Much of the report d. devoted tu
the development OF the work Of the
foundation into a separate division -
educational inquiry. It's present wort
Includes q study of education IN Yer
mont at the request Of the Vermont
educational commission 81 legal ed
ucatiun at the roqucst uf % committee
of the American Bar association. and
of engineering education az tho re-
quest of q joint committee represent
ing he national engineering societies
The report ON education iu Yer
mont already distributed. represents
IN, Arst STUDY that has been made %
a. states educational activities as ~
whole.
The study ~ lrgul education has
been beguu hN "a FIRST bond inquiry lee
q" the bar examinations of o.rtf state.
70 special study uf l,ssl teaching by
Professor Josef Brdhgh Whu came
trHm vienna Tor the purpose 1ud Ly
re- personal examination OF each OF tine
100 IiN school. in th, ruuutrv
Plans fnr the -tgdy of engineering
education are now being completed.
The %rlrIIsr .-1uaIUuUul work Hf the
foundation ie continued D., commcuda-
Z HH.H. ed ola. r...s H..H-H. go oil
loF" entrance requirements tow 20
both elevation and disability Tho
reed us further Improvement b. shown
ny the fact that only 30 per cent -
"a, students now In our colleges are
hIFh school graduates The decrease
In thc humble oi medical schools 900
the country from I62 loo 1910 Geo li5
in 1919 am the rapid Improvement Of
the better schools are commented 400
on with appreciation A general
study OF the problems ~ the state
regulation Of higher education Is d.
Illustrated hy 90 detailed account Of the
recent crisis in educational Affairs ln
Iowa.
The report further presents 1 study
~ the financial siutu OF college teach
ers ri compared with the situation
presented In r. similar study published
i've years ago. The ordinary salary
81 "a full professor in the institutions
associated with the foundation is nov
$4,000. During the last Eve years tho
salaries ~ instructors have risen oy
about $50; those Of Junior professors
show a gain OF from si20 10 S225.
those OF fun professors show an In
crease froi ti25 10 $3.50.
The report concludes with "a trans
criticism r contemporary college o1t-
alogues.