Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-20
A FOUNDATION
FOR EDUCATION
MULTI-M1LL1oNAIRE GIVES
ISAsts s4E i 49, n q. ! 81 tt1G
$15, 100000 FOR ADVANCE
OF TEACHING.
ANNUAL REPORT is OUT
Contains Much Information to be
Used as Guide for Future
Years.

New York, May 19.-The Carnegie
OundatiOn for the Advancement of
Teaching, founded by Andrew Carne-
gle with an endowment Of $15,0O0,000
to provide retiring allowances for
teachers and officers of high educa-
tional institutions in the United
States and Canada, has, during its
eight years of operation, distributed
total of $2,936,927 according to the
annual report issued by its president,
Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, today.
Retiring Allowances.
The, report for the year ending
September 80, 1918, shows that $780,
44O was distributed in retiring allow
ances to professors and $S0,949 in pen
sions 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 4O3. The average annual pay
ment to an individual is $l,703.
+ Pension Systems Discussed.
In connection with the Foundations
work as center of information con-
corning pensions, the president dis
cusses pension systems that are main
tanned by half a dozen colleges, the
development of news systems at
Erown University, the Rockefeller In
stitute and the American Museum Of
Natural History, the new federated
pension system of the English univer-
sites and the proposed system for the
clergy of the Episcopal church.
Among pensions for public schools
teachers the report discusses the mis-
fortunes of the New York City sys-
tenn, and com2nends plans for the new
state syst m in Massachusetts.
Vermont a Subject.
Much Of the report is devoted to
the development of the work of the
Foundation into a separate division
of educational inquiry. Its present
work includes study of education in
Vermont at the request of the Ver-
mont Educational Commission, of le-
gal education at the request of
committee Of the American Ear AS
ISOLATION, and of engineering educa-
ton at the request Of joint commit
tee representing the national engi-
neering societies. ~
The report on education in Ver-
mont, already distributed, represents
the first study that has been made Of
a stat S educational activities as a
whole.
The study of legal education has
been begun by first hand inquiry in
to the bar examinations of every
State, a special study of legal teach.
ing by Professor josef Redlich, who
came from Vienna for the purpose
and by personal examination of
each Of the 100 law schools in the
country.
Want Engineering Taught.
Plans for the study of engineering
education are now being completed.
The earlier educational work of the
Foundation is continued by common
dation of the present tendency of col
lege entrance requirements toward
both elevation and fiexibility. The
need for further Improvement is
shown by the fact that only IS per
cent, OF the students now in our col
leges are high school graduates. Ii
decrease in the number of medical
schools in the country from 1862 in
1910 to lis in 1915, and the rapid i'm
provemcnt Of the better schools are
commented upon with appreciation.
A general study of the problems Of
state regulation of higher education
is illustrated by detailed account Of
the recent crisis in educational af-
fairs in Iowa.
Financial Status.
The report further presents a
study of the financial status of col
lege teachers as compared with the
situation presented in similar study
published five years ago. The, ordi-
nary salary of a full professor in the
institutions associated with the
Foundation is now $4,000. During the
last five years the salaries of instruc.
tors have risen by about $4,000;
those of Junior professors show a
gain of from $4,000 to S225.0O; those
of full professors show an increase
from $125.O0 to $4,000.
The report concludes with a frank
criticism Of contemporary college
catalogues.
RECEIVERS FROM WOUND.
Minot, N. D., May 19.-Wm. Arno-