The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

high calling Of the educator. Born
to follow this vocation. determined to
win his spurs at all costs, he may be
willing to face personal hardship and
sacrifice with no less courage than
that of our soldiers as they went
I through the Argonne. In his younger
days he is compelled to forego mar
riage. In later years, II he marries
anc has children, he finds that his pro-
fessor's pay is too small to give him
and his family even the more modest
comforts of life. But even If lie is
willing to live, modestly and his wife
is equally>@illing. his soul will be en-
bittered when he faces the fact that
he cannot give the higher education
to his own sons.
1t is exactly at this point, If not
before, that we begin to see the great
significance Of President Lowell's
statement, to- which a recent edi-
torial in the New York Times leads
up as follows: 49,.
THE man who gives his full energy
to professional work finds marriage
impossible. Those who do marry face
further and equally bitter alterna-
tive in the question of children. A
single child can perhaps be educated
as its parents were, but only by dint
of unprofessional work---pot boiling.
If there are more children, one and all
must suffer. Whatever the path
chosen, 1t leads inevitably to @ stunt
ed life and futility In labor. The
tragedy of existence In a university
town is no less tragic because II
springs from the sordid money worry.
'The effect upon those taught is
no more happy. The state OF the
teachers mind, as President Lowell
points out, breeds social discomfort
tChich he cannot help impdrtin0 to his
Students"
AS we face the serious danger of
social discohtent among university
teachers, we are brought face to face
with the general Indifference toward
the fact that these teachers are under
paid.
It is highly worth while 10 compare
the pay of naval officers with the pay
of the Harvard faculty at the present
time. Chiefly as the result of the in
creased cost of living. the younger
ranks of naval officers are unable to
live decently OH their pay, and since
the armistice was signed, over 500 OF
them have handed in their resigna-
tons. Now II is a very difficult thing
to destroy the morale of the United
State Navy No one who knows the
splendid achievements of our navy
in the war will think of qualifying this
statement Yet, the morale of even
the United States Navy will be dan
gerously affected, and its personnel re-
duced, II the Government does not pay
naval officers enough to live on In rea-
sonable comfort. Remembering that
over 500 naval officers have sent in
their designations, what shall Harvard
men say when they are told that the
average pay Of the naval officers is 100
per cent. more than the average pay OF
The HARVARD faculty? u these aevs!
officers cannot live in reasonable COM
fort, how is the Harvard faculty to
live on half of naval pay? What
about the morale OF the Harvard fac
ulty?
When we speak of the morale OF
educators we are dealing with the con-
tent or discomfort of the very source,
the well-spring of Americanism.
Whether at Harvard or in the public
schools, IL the teacher is embittered by
the sacrifices he must make under our
democratic form of government he IL
bound to communicate discomfort and