Evening journal., 1916-06-20
Education COST
ON THE increase
Advance in Tuition During
the Last Ten Years
About One-Fifth
TEACHERS PENSIONS
ARE EXPANDING

NEW YORK. June 20-The cost OF
education, in the matter of tuition
alone. is increasing. according to the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment OF Teaching, which made public
its annual report. It is just ten years
since the foundation was established,
and in the statistics it has kept of the
charge made for tuition by The repre-
sentative universities and colleges Of
the country, 1t has been found that
The charge has increased by about
one-ftth.
THE tendency to increase was ac-
tive ten years ago" according to The
report, but il was checked by the
general financial disturbances Of 1907.
Since that time it has developed stead
lily. so that the last four years repre-
sent more than half OF the advance
during the decade. During the present
wear, following the recent examples
at Columbia and Yale the fee at
Princeton has been increased from
S160 to S175 and next year the Har-
ward fee of $3.50, which has remained
unchanged since 1869, will be in
creased to 5000.
at may he said that the represen-
tative or medium fee Of our represen-
tative institutions has increased. dur
ing the decade from about $50 to
about 800 a year. and that the ten
dency to advance fees is increasing
The report states that S674000 has
been spent by the foundation during
the year in retiring allowances and
pensions. Twenty-three retiring al
lowances. and 20 widows pensions
were granted, the average grant being
81 $50. The total number OF allow
ances now in force Is 327 and the
widows pensions 11S; and the total
expenditures for allowances since the
foundation was established amounted
TO S4,225. 900.
study Of legal education under
taken by the Foundation at the re-
quest OF the American Bar Associa'
ticn. has been in progress and practi.
cally every law school i'm the United
States has been visited and cOndi
tions studied at first hand The re-
port presents the first complete lis
Of law schools in the United States,
showing that there are 1877 residen'
schools comforting degrees, 10 resi-
dent schools not comforting degrees
and II correspondence schools, a to
tai OF 164
The study Of legal education hai
enlisted the active and at times con
tinuous cooperation of nearly two
score deans and professors in Law
schools and members of the bar. ThI
investigation is not yet finished, an'
is apparently proving a difficult tasl
10 get all the information which tn
investigators seek. The question o
"when is a law school not a Law
school" is by no means easy Il
answer. However, a great of import
ant data has been gathered relating
TO the standards of law school worl
and the requirement for admission Il
the bar in the several States. Durini
the year the investigation resulted il
the publication OF a survey Of tn
case system Of teaching in American
law schools. by Professor Josef Red
Itch. of the University of Vienna.
The Study OF Engineering Educa
tion. which was undertaken at the re
quest of joint committee represent
ing the six national engineering so
cietios and which has been conductel
with the cooperation Of these so
cieties, is approaching completion
The experience and judgment of sev
eral thousand engineers have beei
drawn upon to estimate present con
ditions in the profession as thes
might affect the schools. the record
~ student annrentices in several larg