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TABLE VI 



Savings from Salary 



Average, $1,765. 



tract the reported total deficit from the 

 reported total saving from salary and 

 divide by 112, the number of replies re- 

 ceived, the average net saving per man for 

 10.3 years teaching service is $559. 



Twenty-five carry no life insurance, 86 

 carry an average of $4,831. With a grim 



° Not a college graduate. 



* Salary, $4,000 



° Salary, $2,250. Supplemental, 30 per cent. 



humor, one man who carries $6,000 insur- 

 ance comments: "I seem to be worth more 

 dead than alive." Nine report accident in- 

 surance in addition, an average of $4,445. 



The table of savings from salary is 

 scarcely less significant than that of defi- 

 cits. Surely no demonstration is needed 

 that the present scale of salaries in this 

 rank is only sufficient to provide a modest 

 living for a single man. Remember that 

 the average salary during the ten years of 

 service has been but $1,325, and the pres- 

 ent salary for men of 37 years of age aver- 

 ages $1,800. The married men must sup- 

 plement their income as best they may to 

 make both ends meet — the salaries are in- 

 sufficient to do it, on the scale of living 

 demanded of them by their position and 

 training. 



Such divided efforts can not fail to af- 

 fect not merely their further develop- 

 ment, but their continuing efficiency. This 

 problem of salaries is grave, and the possi- 

 bility of readjustment worthy of most 

 serious consideration by the administra- 

 tive authorities. Particular attention may 

 be called to the need for special considera- 

 tion of those men in this rank who have 

 passed their fortieth year— the possibly ex- 

 isting class of permanent assistant pro- 

 fessors. 



The rapid increase in the cost of living, 

 in the past twenty years, has made the situ- 

 ation acute ; for there has been no general 

 increase of salaries commensurate with 

 this, and as a consequence these men find 

 themselves driven to a lower and lower 

 standard of living. This is a grave menace 

 to the efficiency of the institutions both 

 present and future, for it must not be for- 

 gotten that the higher ranks must be re- 

 cruited from time to time from men whose 

 development has necessarily been limited 

 by the conditions surrounding this rank. 



Stantokd Univeesitt Guido H. Marx 

 {To be continued) 



