464 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
the conclusion ke mentions the soil physics, and is it not only fair to 
the secretary to assume that when he spoke of Cornell never havin 
done anything that he referred to matters along the line of soil Piya 
President ScaurMANN. - If that is the interpretation it would relieve 
my feelings very much. 
Mr. Burueson. Is not that a fair interpretation to place upon it? 
President ScuurmANN. The first sentence and the last sentence deal 
with soil physics, as you say, and if it was meant that all the inter- 
vening sentences should refer solely to soil pogeies I have very little 
to say, because I have already acknowledged that Cornell, not receiv- 
ing from the State of New York what: your State colleges receive in 
the West of your State legislatures, we have been unable to provide 
for the teaching of soil physics. 
Mr. Brooks. I think it is only fair to say, also, that I personally 
heard the statement of the Secretary, and I did not gather from that 
statement that he was making any sweeping indictment against Cornell 
University, but I thought that it was as to the subject of soil physics. 
President ScourMANN. Well, I acknowledge that with the resources 
at our command we are not able, and unless the State of New York 
helps us we shall not be able, to secure for all the subdivisions into 
which the science of agriculture in this day has fallen full and proper 
attention, and soil physics is one of those subdivisions which we have 
not money to care for. In other colleges of the university the fees of 
students enable us to expand, but in agriculture all tuition is free. 
Mr. Haskins. I have been very much interested in your statement 
as to what Cornell is doing, but I did not hear the statement of the 
Secretary. But I have read with a great deal of care what he said 
here, and I can not construe it as referring to anything else except 
soil physics ¢ 
President Scourmany. Well, I must acknowledge that we have not 
been able to do for that what we have done for agronomy and horti- 
culture and animal industry and dairy industry and poultry keeping; 
and I am very grateful to the Secretary for the help he has given us 
in detailing Mr. Bonsteel to lecture on soil physics. 
Mr. Haskins. Is it not true that in the Agricultural Department 
there are a number of graduates of Cornell? 
President Scuurmann. Yes, sir; anumber. There is Doctor How- 
ard; and Mr. Coville, the botantist, is from Cornell, and there are a 
number of others. 
The Cnarrman. What is the range of salaries paid your scientists at 
‘Cornell? 
President Scnurmann. The normal salary of a professor at Cornell 
University is $3,000 a year, and he retires at 70 years of age on half 
pay. That is the pay of a full professor, you know, who is appointed 
for life. But, while that is the normal salary, there are deviations 
upward to the extent of $250, $500, and $1,000 in the cases of men that 
we are yery desirous of retaining. Deans get from $250 to $500 extra. 
My previons statement applied to professors only—that is to say, some 
professors get $3,250 and some $3,500, or more. Deans get $250, 
$500, or $1,000 over and above their professorial salaries. Our assist- 
ant professors get $1,500 and $2,000, and our instructors get $1,000. 
As to students, let me say a word. Harvard and Yale and Princeton 
have been celebrating their 250th, 200th, and 150th anniversaries, 
