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air and also gas and water, and all 

 meeting-rooms will be fitted for the use 

 of the projection lantern. 



Commodious provision is made for 

 the libraries of the various societies on 

 the two upper floors. The entire top 

 floor, for which the best possible illumi- 

 nation will be provided, is to be given 

 over to the great library hall and its 

 auxiliary rooms, while the floor im- 

 mediately below the reading rooms will 

 ultimately be used for book stacks. 

 Facilities for photographic reproduc- 

 tion, drawing and the like are also 

 provided. 



Eight alcoves open into the large cen- 

 tral library room, devoted to general 

 reference books, reference periodicals, > 

 the books of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, of the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers and 

 of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers and to the periodicals of 

 each of these three societies. The union 

 library thus arranged for should be of 

 immense service to each of the societies 

 represented and extremely viseful to 

 the whole engineering profession. The 

 public will be given free access to the 

 most important engineering library in 

 the country. 



It is expected that the building will, 

 by the office and meeting accommoda- 

 tions it is designed to offer, prove an 

 important means of advancing the in- 

 terests of numerous engineering and 

 quasi-engineering societies and indi- 

 rectly of promoting -the solidarity and 

 efficiency of the scientific profession of 

 engineering. 



THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF 

 TEACHING 

 The trustees of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion have adopted rules for granting re- 

 tiring allowances which are character- 

 ized by foresight and wisdom. The 

 question of charity has been so care- 

 fully eliminated that the plan will 

 dignify the profession of teaching and 

 will directly and indirectly improve the 

 conditions in our institutions' for higher 



education. There remain, of course, 

 the fundamental issues between variety 

 and uniformity, flexibility and perman- 

 ence, autonomy and centralization, in- 

 dividualism and socialism. It can not 

 be doubted that this great foundation 

 favors centralization and a caste of pro- 

 fessors. But there seems to be no 

 other solution of the complicated prob- 

 lems of modern civilization than in- 

 dustrial socialism relieved by intellect- 

 ual individuality. . 



The provisions for granting normal 

 retiring allowances are as follows: 



1. A normal retiring allowance is to be 

 awarded to a professor in an accepted univer- 

 sity, college or technical school, on the ground 

 of either age or length of service. The term 

 professor, as here used, is understood to in- 

 clude presidents, deans, and other administra- 

 tive officers, professors, associate professors and 

 assistant professors, in institutions of higher 

 learning. 



2. Retiring allowances shall be granted under 

 the following rules, upon the application of 

 the institution with which the professor is con- 

 nected. 



3. In reckoning the amount of the retiring 

 allowance the average salary for the last five 

 years of acthe service shall be considered the 

 active pay. 



4. Any person sixty-five years of age, and 

 who has had not less than fifteen years of serv- 

 ice as a professor, and who is at the time a 

 professor in an accepted institute n, shall be 

 entitled to an annual retiring allowance com- 

 puted as follows: 



(«) For an active pay of sixteen hundred 

 dollars or less, an allowance of one thousand 

 dollars, provided no retiring allowance shall 

 exceed ninety per cent, of the active pay. (6) 

 For an active pay greater than sixteen hun- 

 dred dollars the retiring allowance shall equal 

 one thousand dollars, increased by fifty dollars 

 for each one hundred dollars of active pay in 

 excess of sixteen hundred dollars, (c) No re- 

 tiring allowance shall exceed three thousand 

 dollars. 



5. Any person who has had a service of 

 twenty-five years as a professor, and who is at 

 the time a professor in an accepted institution, 

 shall be entitled to a retiring allowance com- 

 puted as follows : 



(a) For an active pay of sixteen hundred 

 dollars or less, a retiring allowance of eight 

 hundred dollars, provided that no retiring al- 

 lowance shall exceed the active pay. (b) For 

 an active pay greater than sixteen hundred 

 dollars, the retiring allowance shall equal 

 eight hundred dollars, increased by forty dol- 

 lars for each one hundred dollars of active pay 

 in excess of sixteen hundred dollars, (c) For 



