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such conditions would be confined almost 

 exclusively to those who were physically 

 impaired, and that the load coming from 

 this provision would be small. The second 

 rule, providing for retirement on the 

 ground of service, is as follows : 



KuiiE 2. Retirement on the Basis of Service. — 

 Any person who has had a service of twenty-five 

 years as a professor, and who is at the time a 

 professor in an accepted institution, shall be 

 entitled to a retiring allowance computed as fol- 

 lows: 



(a) For an active pay of twelve hundred dol- 

 lars or less, a retiring allowance of eight hundred 

 dollars, provided that no retiring allowance shall 

 exceed eighty per cent, of the active pay. 



( 6 ) For an active pay greater than twelve hun- 

 dred dollars, the retiring allowance shall equal 

 eight hundred dollars, increased by forty dollars 

 for each one hundred dollars in excess of twelve 

 hundred dollars. 



(o) For each additional year of service above 

 twenty-five, the retiring allowance shall be in- 

 creased by one per cent, of the active pay. 



(d) No retiring allowance shall exceed four 

 tnousand dollars. 



Computed by the formula: R = A/100 [b + 15) 

 -)- 320, where R = retiring allowance, A = active 

 pay, and b = number^ of years of service. 



The second rule thus became a complex 

 one, covering service and disability. In 

 addition, the executive committee has, by 

 the authority of the trustees, granted oc- 

 casional temporary disability allowances, 

 usually for one or two years' duration, to 

 enable a teacher who has broken down to 

 regain health. 



A third rule provided for a pension for 

 the widow of any teacher who, either on 

 the ground of age or service, was entitled 

 to a retiring allowance. 



These rules have now been in operation 

 four years. During this period an enor- 

 mous amount of correspondence has gone 

 on between the foundation and teachers 

 and college officers in all parts of America. 

 The rules have been criticized and exam- 

 ined from every point of view. It seems, 



therefore, an opportune moment to review 

 the experience of the foundation in their 

 administration and to reexamine the whole 

 matter in the light of this experience. Be- 

 fore proceeding to this examination, how- 

 ever, some light will be thrown on the 

 question by the testimony of the teachers 

 who have accepted retiring allowances. I 

 have written to each teacher who is re- 

 ceiving a retiring allowance and asked a 

 frank statement of the reasons for his re- 

 tirement. It is a part of the invariable 

 policy of the Carnegie Foundation to place 

 in the hands of those interested in educa- 

 tion the fullest details respecting the foun- 

 dation and its administration. In accord- 

 ance with that policy the nature of these 

 replies is indicated in the following sum- 

 mary. 



THE REASONS WHY COLLEGE TEACHEES 

 RETIRE 



The inquiries just referred to were ad- 

 dressed to teachers on the retired list, with 

 the understanding that individual letters 

 were not to be quoted. The summary 

 which follows represents, therefore, only 

 such classification of the replies as is pos- 

 sible without direct quotation. The cor- 

 respondence makes an interesting contribu- 

 tion to the history of this matter, and 

 throws light on the varied conditions of 

 college administration in small and large 

 institutions and in various parts of the 

 continent. 



Letters were addressed to two hundred 

 and eleven teachers on the retired list, 

 asking for the purposes of the foundation 

 a brief statement of the reasons for retire- 

 ment. Eeplies were received in practically 

 every case, and these were, with few ex- 

 ceptions, sufficiently definite to give a clear 

 idea of the motives, or the combination of 

 motives, which induced the writer to retire 

 from active service. 



