June 12, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



849 



a statement of the financial status of the 

 teacher in a higher institution is a list of 

 names, giving in each case salary, age, 

 absence and pension rights, services per- 

 formed, services permitted outside the in- 

 stitution, amount of training, and amount 

 of experience in the institution and else- 

 vrhere. No college or university publishes 

 such a list, and it is doubtful whether any 

 governing board keeps such a systematic 

 list, though it is precisely these facts that 

 a competent head of department or college 

 president has in mind and combines with 

 his knowledge of the teacher's scholarship, 

 efficiency and devotion in recommending 

 financial provisions. It is a regrettable 

 fact that at present we know far more 

 about siich topics as the relation of age to 

 salary, or of length of experience to salary, 

 in the case of elementary and high school 

 teachers than in the ease of college teachers. 

 Indeed, the published facts for the last are 

 practically limited to the survey made in 

 the bulletin of the foundation to which 

 reference has been made. 



The first step obviously is to provide 

 knowledge of the salaries that are actually 

 paid, and this the foundation is enabled to 

 do, through the courtesy of institutions in 

 submitting their pay-rolls for study. As 

 the common statements of average salaries 

 give such imperfect and misleading no- 

 tions, the detailed distribution of the rela- 

 tive frequencies of each salary has been 

 studied.^ 



2 Some thirty group tables were made for the 

 following colleges and universities: Group 1, 

 Carleton College, Franklin College and Eipon Col- 

 lege; Group 2, Bates College, Clarkson School of 

 Technology, Drury College, Grinnell College, Law- 

 rence College and Mount Holyoke College; Group 

 3, Drake University and Newcomb College (of 

 Tulane University) ; Group 4, Beloit College, 

 Centre College of Kentucky, Dickinson College, 

 Hobart College, Marietta College and Wabash 

 College; Group 5, Hamilton College, Oberlin Col- 

 lege, University of Pittsburgh, Tufts College and 



The facts as reported are not offered as 

 infallible in every respect. The founda- 

 tion was unwilling to impose on the insti- 

 tutions concerned the burden of answering 

 detailed questions; consequently a salary- 

 may occasionally be recorded as smaller 

 than it really was (because the individual 

 was on leave of absence for part of the 

 year, or was in receipt of an added pay- 

 ment under another department), or as 

 larger than it really was (because a pay- 

 ment recorded on the pay-roll in a second 

 department was actually included in the 

 first payment recorded). Some mistakes 

 of copying in and from the pay-rolls and 

 in further tabulations are probably inevi- 

 table. The facts reported give, however, a 

 thoroughly trustworthy general picture of 

 what they attempt to present. 



The facts compiled are for salaries in 

 1907-08 as well as in 1912-13, permitting 

 measurements of the rise of salaries as well 

 as of the present status. They are arranged 



Washington and Jefferson College; Group 6, 

 Middlebury College, University of Eochester, Uni- 

 versity of Vermont and Wellesley College; Group 

 7, Bowdoin College, Clark College, Indiana Uni- 

 versity, Purdue University, Swarthmore College, 

 Trinity College (Connecticut) and Union College; 

 Group S, Dartmouth College, University of Mis- 

 souri and Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Group 



9, Lehigh University, University of Minnesota, 

 Tulane University, Washington University (Mis- 

 souri) and Western Reserve University; Group 



10, University of Cincinnati and Vassar Col- 

 lege; Group 11, Amherst College, University of 

 Virginia and Williams College; Group 12, Cornell 

 University, University of Michigan and Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin; Group IS, Case School of 

 Applied Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

 and Stevens Institute of Technology; Group H, 

 University of California, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology and University of Toronto; Group 

 15, Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, Princeton University and Yale 

 University; Group 16, Columbia University and 

 Harvard University. None of these group tables 

 is here published, but the foundation will be glad 

 to make them available to scholars. 



