November 25, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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from some approved college. On the second 

 day of the meeting President "Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, discussed " The Ap- 

 pointment and Tenure of University Pro- 

 fessors." 



At the annual election, the University of 

 Virginia was chosen president of the associa- 

 tion, the University of Illinois vice-president 

 and the University of Missouri a member of 

 the executive committee. Harvard remains 

 secretary and Columbia was reelected a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee. Chicago was 

 chosen as the next place of meeting. The 

 work closed with a conference of deans, the 

 most notable matter of discussion being the 

 entrance requirements for graduate schools. 



The delegates were : Dean Barrows, of Cali- 

 fornia ; Professor Boiling, of the Catholic 

 University of America; President Judson and 

 Dean Salisbury, of Chicago; Professor San- 

 ford, of Clark; Professors Carpenter and 

 Thomas, of Columbia ; Dean Merritt and Pro- 

 fessor Thilly, of Cornell; President Lowell, 

 Dean Haskins and Secretary Little, of Har- 

 vard; Director Davenport, of Illinois; Presi- 

 dent Bryan and Dean Hoffman, of Indiana, 

 Deans Wilcox and Seashore, of Iowa; Pro- 

 fessor Ames, of Johns Hopkins ; Deans Black- 

 mer, of Kansas; Eeed, of Michigan, and 

 Downey, of Minnesota; President Hill, of 

 Missouri; Deans Sherman, of Nebraska, and 

 Ames and Fisher, of Pennsylvania; Dean 

 West and Professor Conklin, of Princeton; 

 President Jordan, of Leland Stanford Junior ; 

 President Van Hise, of Wisconsin; Dean 

 Jones and Director Chittenden, of Tale, and 

 President Alderman, Deans Page, Thornton, 

 Lile, Dabney and Whitehead and Professors 

 Tuttle, Kent, Wilson, Fitz-Hugh, Payne, 

 Kastle and Faulkner, of Virginia. 



TEE SALARIES OF PROFESSORS OF TALE 

 VXIVERSITY 



Attextion has already been called in Sci- 

 ence to increases in the salaries of professors 

 at Yale University. The oiEcial announce- 

 ment of the action taken by the corporation is 

 as follows : 



Owing to the generosity of the alumni, a sum 

 of about $50,000 contributed by the Alumni Fund 

 Association, was available for this purpose {pro- 

 fessorial salary increases). Of this .$10,000 was 

 set apart last spring for salary increases. Of the 

 remainder, one third is now appropriated to in- 

 crease the salaries of assistant professors and two 

 thirds to increase the salaries of full professors. 

 The new salary scale put into force continues in- 

 structors at from $1,000 to $1,600, increases as- 

 sistant professors on the first term of appoint- 

 ment from $1,800 to $2,000, sets $2,500 as the 

 normal scale for the second appointment of the 

 assistant professors' grade and reduces the period 

 of the second appointment from five years to three 

 years, making $3,000 the normal salary for an 

 assistant professor after the expiration of his 

 second term. 



All of the assistant professors of the first grade 

 in the two undergraduate departments had their 

 salaries raised to the new scale for the coming year. 



It is believed that the new salary scale avoids 

 the danger of an absolutely fixed scale on the one 

 hand and of haphazard determination of indi- 

 vidual salaries on the other. In the case of as- 

 sistant professors the normal salary plan of the 

 past is continued and strengthened, although the 

 corporation reserves the right to withhold salary 

 increases where the work is unsatisfactory. 



In the ease of professors, normal grades of 

 $4,000, $4,500, and $5,000 are adopted— with 

 length of service, university responsibility and in- 

 dividual distinction as a scholar or teacher form- 

 ing the criteria on which the president and dean 

 of a department base their recommendations for 

 advance to the corporation. On this plan twelve 

 professors in the university were placed on the 

 maximum salary of $5,000 and a slightly larger 

 number on the $4,500 basis. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Edg.\r F. Smith, for twenty-two years 

 professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Pennsylvania and for twelve years vice-pro- 

 vost, has been elected provost in succession to 

 Dr. C. C. Harrison. 



We have not been able to obtain an author- 

 ized statement of the degrees conferred at the 

 celebration of the centenary of the University 

 of Berlin, but it appears that three honorary 

 degrees were conferred on American men of 

 science — the degree of doctor of philosophy on 



