Pebeuartt 25, 1910] 



■SCIENCE 



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impaired health— four (ages fifty-nine, 

 sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-four) suffering 

 from defective eyesight or hearing, and 

 eight (ages fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-eight, 

 fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-four, 

 sixty-four) having developed some malady 

 or incurred a general breakdown in health. 

 Of the remaining thirty, ten (ages two 

 each at fifty-two, fifty-four, sixty-two, 

 sixty-three and sixty-four) retired on ac- 

 count of some college complications, five of 

 them stating explicitly that their resigna- 

 tions were requested by the presidents of 

 their respective institutions or that they 

 were dismissed. 



Twenty still remain to be accounted for. 

 These were in good health and in their 

 own judgments capable of teaching satis- 

 factorily. Five (ages fifty-five, sixty, sixty, 

 sixty, sixty- three) desired to engage in the 

 work of research or other professional 

 labor, with the additional reason in one 

 case of dissatisfaction with the attitude of 

 the student body and in another the fear 

 that the college might prefer retirement. 

 Two (ages sixty and sixty-three) took ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity for family rea- 

 sons; two (ages sixty-one and sixty-three) 



thought that younger colleagues ought to 

 have the chance to occupy the positions 

 they held; five (ages fifty-one, fifty-seven, 

 fifty-eight, sixty, sixty-two) desired to en- 

 gage in business; six (ages fifty-one, fifty- 

 four, fifty-six, sixty, sixty-two and sixty- 

 three) desired recreation and relief from 

 the recitation and lecture room. 



The statements by these two groups of 

 men are most illuminating in respect to the 

 actual working of such provisions as are 

 incorporated in the present rules. 



THE WORKING OF THE RULES FOR RETIREMENT 

 AND THEIR BETTERMENT 



The following table shows in condensed 

 form the financial load which has resulted 

 in accepted institutions under the opera- 

 tion of the rules as they have hitherto 

 stood. The statement is confined to the ac- 

 cepted institutions for two reasons — first, 

 the teachers in these institutions are the 

 only teachers who have had free opportun- 

 ity to avail themselves of the retiring al- 

 lowance provisions; and secondly, these 

 institutions contain the only body of 

 teachers for whom the foundation has ac- 

 cepted permanent responsibility. 



COST OF BETIEEMENTS AT THE AGE OE SIXTY-FIVE OE O^-EK 



COST OF RETIEEMENTS AT AGES BELOW SIXTY-FIVE ON BASIS OF SEEVICE 



'June to October, 1906. 



