The sun., 1919-07-20

iaie HnhnClerst or tnOSe VINO are re-
sponsible for the payment OF the bills,
Is as to where the money is coming from
with which to meet this additional finan-
cial burden. For her war d~acit the uni
versity called on the alumni and in 1918
campaign was started by the Yale
Alumni Association to raise n fund of
s250,0O0. When the money was all in II
was found that this had been doubled
This year the alumni went over the top
with fund of 100000. This annual
contribution on the part of the graduates
has always been available for use by the
university wherever needed. but recently
the sentiment has been. growing among
Yale graduates that It was more needed
In paying the salaries OF the faculty than
anywhere else.
Although no definite statement has
been given out regarding the actual
plans OF the Yale Alumni Association, II
vas made known to-day that the asso-
citation is going out this year to work
principally to get money enough to see
that Yale Is not behind other colleges in
paying her men. Henry ]. Fisher. Yale
1895. chairman of the Yale University
Alumni Fund for 1880, has Just issued
statement that Is being sent broad
cast to Yale men on this subject as fol-
lows:
THE greatest crop this country pro-
duccs Is not corn, nor wheat, nor cotton.
TT Is boys.
some them. those in whom you and
I are perhaps most interested--our sons,
our younger brothers-are within the
halls Of Yale. Are we doing everything
within our power to enable them to meet
the battle Of llfe-an Infinitely bigger
and more complex battle than we had to
face-with the best possible equipment?
II don't believe we can honestly make
that claim until such time as we shall
give of our best thought and insistent
effort toward the securing OF living
wage for the teaching stan of this uni
versity.
Call Made for Increase.
isn't it time that the men who at a
great personal sacrifice have under
taken the instruction and mental guild
ance Of those most precious to US during
the formative period OF their lives
should be recompensed on a scale a
shade higher than good bookkeeper
or secretary or foreman OF a gang?
How Yale's teaching force, how the
| teaching fraternity in general, has been
able to carry on during the recent cruel
years and take care of their families
God only knows. Let US use our best
| endeavor to remedy this injustice once
for all by putting .teaching on a higher
plane. and let US do II before by dire
necessity this much sacrificing body in
the underpay OF Yale is forced to blow
its horns around the walls of Jericho.
I'm other words, let US beat them
to IT."
Tho Committee on Education of the
Yale corporation, which has considered
| the salary question at Yale from various
angles. has made the following recon-
| mendation to the corporation relative
| to the increase OF the salaries OF pro-
fessors. a matter that will be taken up
| this fall:
THE committee recommends that the
determination of questions of increase
| OF salary OF professors already receiv-
| ing $4,000 or more be deferred until the
| duties which such professors assume un-
der the proposed plans Of university re-
| organization are more fully determined
| and the principles by which compensa-
| ton for different classes OF service can
be approximately established. Should
this result in deferring the actual in
crease OF professors salaries until the
autumn Of 1919. 1t Is understood that
increases then adopted should be made
to take effect the beginning OF the aca-
| demic year 1919-l920.
In this connection your committee
| desires to report its conviction that the
primary. object OF the two undergradu-
ate schools is the education of their stu
dents. and that TO this end the charac-
ter and personality of the various
teachers. both instructors and professors.
and their ability and success as slim
lating and inspiring influences Is a mat
I ter Of primary Importance and ought so
to be regarded in the selection and ad-
| vancement of members Of the teaching
| force. and that the influence OF inspir-
ing and stimulating instruction on the
! undergraduates Is even greater in the
| freshman year than at any later time
and that this fact ought to be recog-
nized in the assignments and. II neces-
sary, in the salaries paid"
The argument that is being used by
those who are in favor of committing
the alumni to providing the money for
the payment OF the sauaries is that by
this arrangement the increased expenses
from year TO year could more easily be
met than by the increasing number OF
alumni than in any other way, II Is
argued that alumni generally are more
interested In the salary question than
in any other one question at Yale. anC
that 1t would be easier to raise large
sums of money for this purpose thar
for general university purposes
Such arrangement would also leav,
no room for criticism of the Yale ofi
Gals on the part Of graduates on Tho
salary issue as that feature OF Yale:
expenditures would be in the hands o.
the graduates themselves. In the even
OF some plan of this kind being adopted
and the university being relieved OF tn,
financial burden of providing funds FOL
the payment of salaries, the question o.
new buildings and OF other improve
ments would be up to the university ant
not to the graduates.
In order to swing such a scheme.
as one Yale graduate said to-day. ri
would be necessary to increase very ma
terially the numSG OF subscribers to tin
Yale alumni fund. Most OF the big hsi
are, OF course. in the pond now, but !
would be imperative 10 get out afte