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TABLE Vni 



Salary of Assistant Professor 

 (compiled from various sources) 



(a) No fixed requirements. (6) I should be 

 unable to put them into the shape of any fixed 

 formula. — President Lowell. 



(a) The doctor's degree or the equivalent. (6) 

 If, as is usually the custom, the assistant pro- 

 fessor is to teach freshmen, he should be a man 

 whose character, disposition and training make 

 him fit for this important work. Many young 

 doctors are notably unfit. — President Bryan. 



(a) The university has not definitely formu- 

 lated a basis of requirements for eligibility for 

 promotion from instructors to assistant professors. 

 ( 6 ) Assistant professors should be from 30 to 35 

 years of age; have had training equivalent to that 

 required for the degree of doctor of philosophy; 

 should have demonstrated their ability as teachers 

 to impart knowledge and inspire interest in their 

 subject; should have had a minimum of perhaps 

 five years of teaching experience. — President Mac- 

 Lean. 



(a) Nothing very definite. (6) Ordinarily the 

 instructorship should serve as an apprenticeship 

 for the candidate for a position in the required 

 teaching force of the institution. The instructor 

 should have such training and qualifications as to 

 fit him for the minor work in his department, and 

 to cause him to be seriously regarded as a pros- 

 pective candidate for permanent position. — ^Dean 

 Templin. 



(a) A man who fills well a position perma- 

 nently needed. (6) (1) Character. (2) Teaching 

 ability with enthusiasm. (3) Scholarship. (4) 

 Fitness for advancement as an original scholar. 

 I should place age and experience lowest. — Presi- 

 dent Jordan. 



{a) No. (6) Age 23 to 30. Scholarship, A.B. 

 and Ph.D. degrees with what they are supposed 

 to indicate. Teaching ability, clear view of things 

 and power to impress and inspire. Experience, as 

 much as possible at the age. — President Northrop. 



(a) The general understanding is that for pro- 

 motion to rank of assistant professor, a man must 

 give definite evidence of productive scholarship as 

 well as teaching ability. (6) Can not formulate 

 answer. — President Hill. 



(a) No. (6) Do not feel able to formulate 

 answer to this question offhand. — President Van 

 Hise. 



(a), (5) We promote a man from an instructor- 

 ship to an assistant professorship if, after three 

 years of teaching, he has shown exceptional fit- 

 ness for teaching and research; or if, after five 

 years of teaching, he has shown such reasonable 

 degree of success in instruction and administra- 

 tion as entitles him to promotion. — President 

 Hadley. 



Query 2c asked if these requirements are 

 more exacting than they were twenty 



