The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-20
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION
DISTRIBUTES $2,936,927
During 1913 Sum of Sh7D,14O Given as
Retiring Allowances to
Professors.
PENSION SYSTEMS D1sou
Study OF Legal Education BcGun by
First-Iinnd Inquiry Into bur Exam
nations of Every Stntc.

New York, May la.-rho Carnegie
Foundation for tine Advancement OF
Teaching. founded by Andrew Carnegie
with on endowment OF Sl5,0D0.000 to
provide for retiring allowances for
teachers and officers of high cduca-
fi"nal institutions in the United States
and Canada. has. during it's eight years
OF operation, distributed II total Of ST.
"36,?27, according to the annual report
just issued by It's president. DIR. Henry
:. Pritchctt.
The report for the year ending Sep
tcmber 80. 1913. shows that $5I9,4io
Was distributed In retiring allowances
To professors, and SSO,9ig in pensions
to their widows. during that year.
The number of allowances for tho
year was thirty three. making the
present total Of allowances now in
force ao3. The average annual pay
mcnt to an individual is sl.7U3.
In connection with the foundations
work AZ Il centre OF Information con
corning pensions, tho president dis
cusses pension systems that are main
tanned by half 4 dozen colleges the de-
Nelopment of now systems at Brown
University. the Rockefeller Institute
and tho American Museums OF Natural
History, the new federated pension
system OF the English universities and
the proposed system for the clergy OF
tho Episcopal Church. Among pen
d
port discusses the misfortuncs of the
New York City system, and coInmcnds
plans of tho new State system In Mas
sachusetts.
Much of the report la devoted TO the
development of the work of the foun-
dation into a separate division OF cdu-
cauonal Inquiry. Its present work In
Guides study or education In Yer
mont at the request OF the Vermont
fducationa! Commission. OF legal cdu-
cation at the request Of n committee of
the American Bar Association. and OF
engineering education AT the request OF
II Joint committee representing tn. ma
tional engineering societies.
EDUCATION IN VERMONT
Is SUBJECT or INQUIRY
Tho report OH education IN Yer
mont. already distributed represents
the hrst study that has been made of
state educational activities rs a
whole.
The study OF legal education has
been begun by Il nrst-hand inquiry
into the bar examinations of every
state: special study OF legal teach
Ing by Professor Josef Rcdlich, who
came from Vienna for the purpose, and
by personal examination Of each OF
the 100 law schools In the country.
Plans for the study Of engineering
education are now being completed.
7 The earlier educational work Of the
foundation Is continued by commenda-
ton OF the present tendency OF college
entrance requirements toward both
elevation ana feasibility. Thc need
for further Improvement Is shown by'
the fact that only 30 per cent OF the
students now Ia our colleges are high
school graduates. The decrease in the
number of medical schools in the coun-
try from l62 In 1910 TO ll5 in 1918,
and the rapid Improvement Of the bot
ter schools arc commended upon with
appreciation. general study OF the
problems OF the State regulation OF
I higher education is illustrated by a
detailed account or the recent crisis
In educational affairs In Iowa.
The report further presents = study
OF the financial status OF college teach
ers as compared with the situation pre-
scnted In Il similar study published
five years ago. The ordinary salary
OF a full professor In the institutions
associated with the foundation is now
$4,000. During the last Ave years the
salaries OF Instructors have risen by
about $50: those of Junior professors
! snow Il gain OF from sl20 to S225;
those OF fun professors show an In
crease from 1925 10 $3.50.
The report concludes with frank
criticism OF contemporary college cat
alogues