Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27

lar will probably not reach the old 1913
level for some years again.
So the plan of Vassar to raise its salary
scale 81 per cent barely puts the college
professor on his pre-war living SCALE Yet
a 81 per cent raise will bring this college
to point where it's salaries compare favor
ably with those of other colleges in it's class
The college professors are beginning to re-
ceive appreciation, but they are still far
from Easy Street.
The college girls set about these salary
campaigns with enthusiasm. In progressive
women's colleges all student activities are
now regarded as educational. The salary
campaign is being used to teach the students
things that they could not learn in the
academic lecture courses.
Each girl at Vassar agreed to pledge
800. 1t was further agreed that the money
was to be earned. No girl was to write home
for a check.
At once business ventures of every sort
began to blossom out In some OF the halls
cider barrels were installed, and quantities
of fresh cider are still being sold to girls
who feel in need of refreshment before or
after classes. Other girls set up little shops
and sold handwork or novelties. Some serve
tea Shows and benefits have been given.
How Girls Earn Money
All sorts of talents are being turned to
account in the girls efforts to earn their
pledge money. Alumnae and undergraduates
preserves and doughnuts, painting fences
and furniture and giving programs of music
and dancing.
Other girls have gone out collecting. The
Plumbers union and the Carpenters union
of one city each gave SIS to the fund, be-
cause they were interested in helping an
underpaid line of work to attain to more
suitable standard.
In all their ventures in making and col
lecting funds, the students are getting prac-
tice in dealing with people on business terms.
They learn something of the value of a
dollar This work is a typical example of how
colleges are trying to give practical exper-
fence to girls.
The modern girls college claims to be a
complete democracy, small state in itself,
with student officers and councils, student
run athletics and dramatics, perhaps COM
munity theater with girl electricians and
costume designers and all the rest of the
theater staff. One college has census bu-
reau which registers girls and tkeir abili-
ties and inclnations. It sees that no girl has
too many outside interests and it brings out
the bashful students who might be swept
along with the crowd throughout college.
The faculty member too, in a modern
college, has to be more than a learned
recluse. The demands Of practical education
bring teachers into closer touch with the
students. Most of their time, is required. Yet
the instructors rarely afford to give
themselves up wholly to their college work.
Even if professor manages to live on the
salary paid by the college, he has to think
of the future. The Carnegie pensions offer
some help. But they retire professors on
only little more than so per cent of their
pay. So the college teacher must save some
thing for old age. Generally he does it by
adding outside work to an already crowded
program. The salary fund campaigns are
not going to eliminate financial worry en-
tirely from college teaching but they are a
step in the direction of that millennium.