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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 594. 



of service. The term professor, as here 

 used, is understoocl to include presidents, 

 deans, professors, associate professors and 

 assistant professors, in institutions of high- 

 er learning. 



2. Retiring allowances shall be granted 

 under the following rules, upon the appli- 

 cation of ,the institution with which the 

 professor is connected, and in the applica- 

 tion it should be clearly set forth whether 

 the retiring allowance is recommended on 

 the ground of age or service. 



3. In reckoning the amount of the re- 

 tiring allowance the average salary for the 

 last five years of active service shall be 

 considered the active pay. 



4. Any person sixty-five years of age, 

 and who has had not less than fifteen years 

 of service as a professor, and who is at the 

 time a professor in an accepted institution, 

 shall be entitled to an annual retiring al- 

 lowance computed as follows : 



(a) For an active pay of sixteen hun- 

 dred dollars or less, an allowance of one 

 thousand dollars, provided no retiring al- 

 lowance shall exceed ninety per cent, of 

 the active pay. 



(&) For an active pay greater than six- 

 teen hundred dollars, the retiring allowance 

 shall equal one thousand dollars, increased 

 by fifty dollars for each one hundred dol- 

 lars of active pay in excess of sixteen hun- 

 dred dollars. 



(c) No retiring allowance shall exceed 

 three thousand dollars. 



5. Any person who has had a service of 

 tAventy-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 follows: 



(a) For an active pay of sixteen hun- 

 dred dollars or less, a retiring allowance 

 of eight hundred dollars, provided that no 

 retiring allowance shall exceed eighty per 

 cent, of the active pay. 



(h) For an active pay greater than six- 



teen hundred dollars, the retii'ing allowance 

 shall equal eight hundred dollars, increased 

 by forty dollars for each one hundred dol- 

 lars of active pay in excess of sixteen hun- 

 dred dollars. 



(c) For each additional year of service 

 above twenty-five, the retiring allowance 

 shall be increased by one per cent, of the 

 active pay. 



{d) No retiring allowance shall exceed 

 three thousand dollars. 



6. Any person who has been for ten years 

 the wife of a professor in actual service 

 may receive during her widowhood one 

 half of the allowance to which her husband 

 would have been entitled. 



7. In the preceding rules, years of leave 

 of absence are to be counted as years of 

 service, but not exceeding one year in seven. 

 Librarians, registrars, recorders and ad- 

 ministrative officers of long tenure, whose 

 salaries may be classed with those of pro- 

 fessors and assistant professors, are consid- 

 ered eligible to the benefits of a retiring 

 allowance. 



8. Teachers in the professional depart- 

 ments of universities whose principal work 

 is outside the profession of teaching are 

 not included. 



9. The benefits of the foundation shall 

 not be available to those whose active ser- 

 vice ceased before April 16, 1905, the date 

 of Mr. Carnegie's original letter to the 

 trustees. 



10. The Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching retains the power 

 to alter these rules in such manner as ex- 

 perience may indicate as desirable for the 

 benefit of the whole body of teachers. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



SECTION D— MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND 



ENGINEERING. 



The meeting of the section for organiza- 

 tion was held in the engineering building 



