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salary, there would be a fairly pronounced 

 influence of this sort. 



We may say roughly that the teachers 

 in intermediate grades in the smaller insti- 

 tutions are financially in a class with the 

 instructors in institutions like Columbia, 

 Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, Stanford, Cali- 

 fornia and Princeton. How often they are, 

 like these latter, young men proving their 

 worth, and how often they are mature men 

 whose achievements have not been such as 

 to put them ahead financially, is a ques- 

 tion to be settled only by proper measure- 

 ments of the correlation of age with salary. 

 The teachers in intermediate grades of in- 

 stitutions like Oberlin College get from 

 $1,200 to $1,800, and represent gifted 

 young men, somewhat older men waiting 

 for fairly assured promotion, and still older 

 men who have nearly or quite reached 

 their salary limit as college teachers. The 

 890 teachers in intermediate grades in in- 

 stitutions like Dartmouth College or the 

 University of Minnesota represent the 

 group of assistant professors whose status 

 has been studied by Professor Guido Marx, 



plus a financially superior group of junior 

 professors and associate professors in large 

 institutions. 



In the case of the full professors, we have 

 in Table III. the story of the salaries of 

 mature men and women, accepted as 

 teachers of the highest rank, in sixty-one 

 institutions. This fairly represents the 

 status of the full professor in the hundred 

 and fifty better higher institutions of 

 America. 



There is a certain significance in the 

 combined facts for the salaries of all these 

 full-time teachers of accepted standing in 

 the higher schools of America, which are 

 shown in Table IV., although in this table 

 all ages and all of the institutions are 

 mixed. The significance lies in the possi- 

 bility of easy comparison with similar facts 

 for other professions or branches of civil 

 service, and of easy contrast with salaries 

 in industrial and commercial organizations. 

 One such comparison with the salaries of 

 men teachers in public high schools of the 

 United States is made in the table itself. 



TABLE IV 

 THE DISTKIBUTION OP THE SALARIES 1912-13 



Of the i,2G2 Instructors, Assistant Professors, As.-iociaie Professors and Professors in the 

 61 Institutions Combined 



