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e-conferring htstitutions in the United States and Canada appropriating Annually $1^5,000 or 

 over for the Total Payment of the Salaries of their Instructing Staffs " 



"The data for instructors and assistants are omitted. 

 " Not including Medical School. 

 " Including the preceptors as assistant professors. 

 " Including payments of students for board. 



"^Most of the faculty receive a small extra compensation for teaching at the Women's College. 

 " Faculty consists of members of the faculty of Harvard University, paid a certain amount per course. 

 "Law students are not classified separately from collegiate undergraduates. 



"A combination of the average salary of associates, $1,469, and the average salary of instructors, 

 $1,050. 



'° Professors who are heads of departments receive on an average $5,800. 



The Presbyterian Sjnaod of Tennessee 

 (north) elects the trustees of Maryville 

 College, and also the trustees of Greenville 

 and Tusculum Colleges. Washington Col- 

 lege, while its trustees are not elected by 

 the synod, is a Presbyterian institution. 

 All three of these colleges are located in 

 the mountainous region of East Tennessee. 

 The Northern Presbyterian Church, 

 through its recent union with the Cumber- 

 land Presbj^erian Church, has also come 

 into possession of Cumberland University 

 in Central Tennessee. The Southern 

 Presbyterian Church has a university in 

 West Tennessee. If all of these institu- 

 tions are really devoted to higher educa- 

 tion, it is evident that one or more of 

 them are superfluous. Throughout the 

 country there are numerous instances of 

 single bodies in one denomination, like the 



Northern Presbyterian Synod of Ten- 

 nessee, having within their own limited 

 area more than one college or university. 

 There is something pathetic in the devo- 

 tion which is poured into some of these 

 unnecessary colleges. One finds an insti- 

 tution in which the few college students 

 who come are instructed by perhaps a 

 single competent teacher, assisted by pro- 

 fessors who are young boys just out of 

 college. The salaries are pitifully small, 

 the "dean" in such a college sometimes 

 receiving not more than $800 a year and 

 the professors $50 a month. The small 

 endowment which has been given suffices 

 to keep the institution alive and there is 

 often poured into it a large measure of 

 sincere but misguided devotion, the more 

 to be regretted because the students who 

 come to such an institution can usually 



