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SCIENCE. 



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period of y years, he would receive his 

 allowance as soon as his institution applied 

 for it. In cases outside of the normal 

 age or service conditions, the recommenda- 

 tion of the accepted institution shall be 

 considered by the trustees of The Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing, and action taken upon the individual 

 case, and once a grant has been made, pay- 

 ment will be made as in normal cases, 

 throvigh the institution. 



No institution will be accepted which is 

 so organized that stockholders may partici- 

 pate in its benefits. 



RECOGNITION OP INDIVIDUAL PEOPESSORS IN 

 INSTITUTIONS NOT ON THE ACCEPTED LIST. 



The trustees realize that there are able 

 and devoted teachers rendering admirable 

 service to education in institutions which, 

 owing to low entrance requirements, or for 

 other reasons, are considered below the 

 academic grade requisite to entitle them to 

 a place on the accepted list of institutions. 

 Individual professors of merit or of dis- 

 tinguished service in such institutions may 

 be granted retiring allowances, but in such 

 cases the trustees will deal with the indi- 

 vidual professor. Such allowances can not 

 be granted to professors in institutions 

 deemed to be under denominational con- 

 trol. 



CONDITIONS FOR THE GRANTING OP NORMAL 

 RETIRING ALIjOWANCES. 



1. Age.— To be eligible to retirement on 

 the ground of age, a teacher must have 

 reached the age of sixty-five and must have 

 been for fifteen years professor in a higher 

 institution of learning. "Whether a pro- 

 fessor's connection as a teacher with his 

 institution shall cease at an earlier or later 

 age than sixty-five, is a matter solely 

 within the jurisdiction of the professor 

 himself and the authorities of the institu- 

 tion in which he serves. 



2. Long Service. — To be eligible for re- 



tirement on the ground of length of service, 

 a teacher must have had twenty-five years' 

 service as a professor in a higher institu- 

 tion of learning. It is not necessary that 

 the whole of the service shall have been 

 given in accepted colleges, universities or 

 technical schools. 



In no ease shall any allowance be paid 

 to a teacher who continues to give the 

 whole or part of his time to the work of 

 teaching, as a member of the instructing 

 staff of a college or technical school. 



THE SCALE OP RETIRING ALLOWANCES. 



The trustees recognize that a fixed rule 

 limiting the amount of an allowance— such, 

 for instance, as a stated percentage of a 

 professor's salary— can not be adopted 

 without working a serious hardship in 

 many institutions where salaries are low, 

 and under the best conditions must remain 

 low for many years. They have, therefore, 

 adopted a scale under which a teacher who 

 is receiving a low salary is granted a much 

 higher percentage of his salary than is 

 granted to one receiving a higher salary. 

 Thus, for a salary below sixteen hundred 

 dollars a pension of $1,000 or a sum not to 

 exceed ninety per cent, of the active pay, 

 is granted as a retiring allowance. It is 

 believed that this scale is a more just one 

 to men on small salaries. It could scarcely 

 dignify the calling of the teacher to allot 

 to a professor who had served many years 

 at twelve hundred dollars a year fifty per 

 cent, of his pay, although that percentage 

 might be a fairly generous allowance in the 

 case of a professor who had been receiving 

 a pay of five thousand dollars. 



RULES POR THE GRANTING OP NORMAL 

 RETIRING ALLOWANCES. 



1. A normal retiring allowance is con- 

 sidered to be one awarded to a professor in 

 an accepted university, college or technical 

 school, on the ground of either age or length 



