Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-04
EDUCATORS AND
COOKS GET The
SAME SALARY
Minnesota Regent Claims
College Salary Scale In
wolves Menace.

Ann Arbor. Mich. Nov. Accord
ing to Regent Charles Sommers of the
University Of Minnesota, the average
salary of a professor in a university
is less than that professors wife
would pay her cook-provided she
didn't do he cooking herself.
Regent Sommcrs was one of two
speakers at the meeting of state
regents, held at the University of
Michigan in connection with the in
augural ceremonies when DIR. Marion
T.. Burton was made president of the
University of Michigan.
Pay Is Only $29.79 PEI Week.
Teachers salaries are inadequate.
The whole profession, as compared
with others generally, is greatly UNI
derpaid. The average salary of
week. For instructors in our state
supported universities. the average
decreases to $21.S4 per week." said
Mr.. SomnlerA-
He admitted that It takes about
II years of preparation after the
grammar school grades, and between
$4,000 and $4,000 to properly equip
q man to teach in college. "All this
costly equipment will enable a man
to earn about as much as the average
dryEoods salesman, considerably less
than plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers
or painters, less than coal miners and
other laborers who nee very little
training.
THE question goes much further
than that Of mere help to the college
teacher" the. speaker said. The flu
ture of the educational system Of the
whole country is threatened" He
quoted President when he said: Men
Of first-class ability cannot enter upon
a teaching career with assurance.
Their self-respect compels them to
seek other lines of service. Is long as
the economic status of the teacher is
as low as it is at present, as long as
the PHI. D. is graded commercially in
the class OF cheap labor, no one can
conscientiously advise the young mar
of promise to take up teaching"
Regent 7. Nj. Hammond said stu
dents who work their way through
college do not achieve the success in
after life attained by others. and that
they would do better to borrow money
from established "a funds in meet
ing college expenses. He said the
it was his real conviction. Regent
Hammond would have university fees
and tuition charges made as low as
possible, but he pointed out that as the
expense to the state for each student
is far in advance of charges, and that
SlIlCc liz OppOIluulllcS OllcEeu ny edcN
institution are primarily for the stu
dents of that state, that the university
has a right to impose reasonable fees
on all.
Urges Student Loan Funds.
For six years Regent Hammond was
in charge of the employment bureau
; at the University of Chicago and he
:; could draw from this data and from
subsequent Investigations Of the ca
reers Of over 5000 students to whom
he had furnished employment. 1.-The
! aided student" he said, has not sue
| ceeded in after life to the same extent
, as has the student whose way has
l been paid by his parents or friends.
4 His health has not been so good, and
\ he has been lacking in initiative and
4 in accomplishment" For the benefit
f Of UGH students MIR. Hammond made
, q. vigorous appeal for the establish
T ment Of permanent loan funds as the
! best type of philanthropy in higher