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the following subjects, whicli will have the 

 relative weights indicated, on a scale of 100 : 

 (1) Education, 40; (2) Experience, 60. 

 Competitors will be rated upon the sworn 

 statements in their applications and upon cor- 

 roborated evidence. 



On December 10 for assistant observer. 

 Weather Bureau, for unmarried men. Va- 

 cancies in offices of the "Weather Bureau 

 throughout the United States, and in positions 

 requiring similar qualifications at $1,080 a 

 year, or higher or lower salaries, will be filled 

 from this examination. 



Applications will be received until further 

 notice for associate physicist qualified in phys- 

 ical metallurgy, for men only, at salaries 

 ranging from $2,000 to $2,800 a year; and 

 assistant physicist qualified in physical metal- 

 lurgy, for both men and women, at salaries 

 ranging from $1,400 to $1,800 a year, to fill 

 vacancies in the Bureau of Standards, De- 

 partment of Commerce, for duty in "Washing- 

 ton, D. C, or elsewhere, and in positions 

 requiring similar qualifications in other 

 branches of the service. 



Eor scientific assistant, for both men and 

 women, on Januaiy 7 and 8. Vacancies in 

 the Department of Agriculture, for duty in 

 "Washington, D. C, or in the field. The usual 

 entrance salary for this position ranges from 

 $1,320 to $1,630 a year, but persons showing 

 in their examinations that they are unusually 

 qualified are occasionally appointed at higher 

 salaries, not to exceed $1,860 a year. 



SALARIES AT YALE UNIVERSITY 



The Yale Corporation at its last meeting in- 

 creased the normal salary scale for full pro- 

 fessors doing full-time work of a satisfactory 

 character (which has in the past been $4,000, 

 $4,500 and $5,000) to $5,000, $6,000 and $7,000, 

 with the understanding that $8,000 will be 

 given in a very few cases to men of excep- 

 tional ability as teachers and productive schol- 

 ars. It is believed that this action, which will 

 be retroactive from July 1, 1919, places the 

 average salary scale for professors at Tale Uni- 

 versity above that of any other university in 

 America, although in two or three other insti- 

 tutions a very small group of men receive as 



much as $10,000. Some full professors vsdth 

 whom special arrangements have been made 

 will continue at lower salaries, but a majority 

 will receive at least $5,000 or $6,000 a year. 

 The vote passed by the corporation is as fol- 

 lows: 



Voted, to approve the reoommendation of the 

 Salaries Committee that ,the following should be 

 the normal salary standard, to be departed from 

 only in exceptional cases: 



Professors, fuU time $5,000-$8,000 



Professors, part time $3,000-$6,000 



Assistant and associate professors.. $2,500-$4,500 



The salaries of the deans of the different 

 schools were placed at from $6,000 to $8,000, 

 depending upon the amount of work and re- 

 sponsibility devolving upon each. 



The corporation adopted the following as 

 the main criteria for determining salary in- 

 creases within the normal scale: 



(a) Usefulness as a teacher. 



(6) Productivity and standing in the world 

 of science, letters or art. 



(c) Public service, including service to the 

 university. 



{d) Executive responsibility and efficiency. 



These criteria were decided upon and the 

 individual salaries are being determined as a 

 result of the following vote passed by the cor- 

 poration at its previous meeting: 



Voted, to authorize the president and the chair- 

 man of the committee on educational policy in con- 

 sultation with the deans of the college, and seieu- 

 tific school, and the graduate school to prepare a 

 list of salary increases to be voted on at the next 

 meeting, together with the criteria to be adopted 

 in assignment-s to salary grades, with the under- 

 standing that the deans of other schools will be 

 consulted when the salaries of their professors are 

 under consideration. 



Eull-time instructors and assistant pro- 

 fessors in the undergraduate schools doing 

 satisfactory work had their salaries raised last 

 spring— the former from the old $1,000-$1,600 

 to the new $l,250-$2,000 scale; the latter from 

 $2,000, $2,500 and $3,000 to a new scale $500 

 higher for each grade. Some further increases 

 of assistant professors' salaries are now under 

 consideration by the joint committee of the 



