The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-17
STUDENTS GIVE
| |. 0. U. NOTES
Education of Poor Students
May be Accomplished by
Promisory Notes.
BROADENS COLLEGE
by Associated Press

by Associated Press)
New York.-Taking pronrisory notes
from poor students for the difference
between the full cost of instructing
them and the amount of the tuition is
advocated by julius H. Barnes in
statement based on report of college
buttons and faculty salaries, prepared
by the Institute for Public Service, of
which he is chairman. Mr.. Barnes
pointed out that this would be a means
OF increasing college revenues and rec
commended that the plan be given a
wide trial.
Commenting on the institutes re-
port, which stated that buttons in no
case equal the cost of giving instruc-
ton, Mr.. Barnes asked: Would ex-
pecting students either to pay as they
go or when they can afford it, or TO
promise to pay as soon as they can
afford it, gradually build out of stu
dent contributions great steady flow
of support for colleges and the widen
ing of opportunities for coming gem
erations?"
7 he report declared there was nc
earthly excuse for charging a rich
mans son half what he ought to pay
and then paying professor half what
he ought to get. A great majority of
colleges and universities are paying
members of their faculties far less
than growing wage" Barnes said.
In 18 colleges, the report states, full
professors receive less than $4,000
year, while in 140 the maximum is
$4,000. Maximum salaries at Yale and
Michigan are given as $4,000 for full
professors and at Columbia and Har-
ward $4,000.
The maximum for instructions is
$4,000, but eight colleges pay less than
$1,000 while in 81 the maximum is
$500, the amount paid elementary
public school teachers for their first
years work in New York and several
other cities.
| Salary increases since 1914, the re-.
port states, ranged from $500 to $4,000
for full professors and from $75 to
$1,000 for instructors, while increases
in tuition ranged from 81 to $3.50.
Mr.. Barnes analysis of the report
in part follows:
while 253 or 275 colleges reporting
tuition facts have raised tuition since
1914, not one of them is charging any
where near what it costs. Again, while
noteworthy increases in maximum sal
aries have been made by many col
leges, the great majority are still pay
ing far less than a growing wage.
Everyone is agreed that the ability
than any colleges have been paying
until quite recently and much higher
than most colleges are paying today.
A full professor on $1,000 or. $4,000 a
of the colleges to do their work de-
ponds first upon the ability and per-
sonality of their faculties. Ability
and personality now come high-higher
year-and 18 report less than $1,000
cannot, no matter how self-sacrifcing
he is, do the growing necessary to
fulfill the contl~~2t which his college
makes when it exchanges instruction
for q students time and money.
Con the other hand, the question
! arises whether those who are fortunate
enough to go to college should not pay
more nearly what it costs to be edu-
Gated If having tuition too low or
free meant only taxing the rich and
the dead, perhaps it might be accepted
as necessary; but it means taxing the
faculty, reducing the preparation of
teachers, reducing the number who are
willing to go into teaching, reducing
the benefits for students, and, some
say, reducing the graduates sense Of
obligation to society"