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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 750 



years ago. "The great and noteworthy 

 expansion of the university, which has 

 been brought about by the labors of the 

 university teachers, has also been brought 

 about at their expense," writes President 

 Butler in one of his annual reports. 

 Strikingly corroborative testimony is 

 borne by a table of age of staff of Har- 

 vard College^^ in which it is seen that 

 there was not a single member of the 



reasonable pecuniary return for their 

 services. 



Charts 22-26 are valuable as segre- 

 gating the data and showing the move- 

 ment of salaries in each rank separately. 

 In these, as in the average compensation 

 charts, the downward trend from 1885 

 to 1905 is noticeable. Beginning with 

 1905, however, when this matter of salar- 

 ies came to a sort of focus, there has been 



permanent staff under twenty -eight years 

 of age. 



In spite of the annual influx of new 

 men, it is the writer's belief, based upon 

 study of the matter, that the average age 

 of the instructors at the five institutions 

 under consideration is just about thirty 

 years. This is an age at which equally 

 trained and gifted men in other business 

 and professional fields of activity have 

 obtained a firm foothold and receive some 



"President Eliot's report, 1904-5, p. 14. 



an upward trend of the salary curves at a 

 number of institutions. Incoinplete as the 

 Harvard chart is, it is included here to 

 show the effect of the teachers' endow- 

 ment fund. 



The most shocking thing revealed by a 

 study of these charts is the status of the 

 instructor. We have just seen what the 

 age and training of these men is, and the 

 large proportion they form of the entire 

 staff; we now see that their average com- 

 pensation ranges about a thousand dollars 



