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Show THE POOR PROFESSOR. The college professor is in a state of unrest, bordering on a general strike in the profession. In almost every other occupation wages have risen to meet the demands of prosperity. pros-perity. But in most cases the college professor is earning no more to-day than thirty years ago. Naturally, he is finding it harder and harder to keep the wolf from the door, to dress his wife respectably, and give his children the same advantages a good mechanic can provide for his offspring. off-spring. One reason not the only one that the professors do not form ia union, appoint walking delegates, and go after the trustees of colleges with lead pipe is probably because every pedagogue is aware that a dozen doz-en younger men are hungrily waiting to snap up his job. Either the college professor must give up the habit of marrying and rearing children, or he must find a way to get more money. And yet the i colleges are receiving new bequests all the time. The last ten years have seen millions showered upon them. Why is it, then, that the poor professor pro-fessor has not come in for some of this prosperity? One reason is that ' it costs about twice as much to edu cate a student at one of our universities universi-ties as he pays in tuition. The balance bal-ance has to be m-t from the income of endowment, and every additional student is an additional burden on that endowment. And our college presidents arc as ambitious a set of officials as life-insurance presidents.' Many of them want more -udents, no matter what it costs to get them, and they want to expand their "facilities," no matter what salaries they arc pay- The college professor should get after his president and see that the money is not squandered on new work; and he should force the trustees trus-tees to put up the price of tuition. There is no reason why our young men should not pay more than half the cost of their education, especially when their teachers are being slowly slow-ly pauperized. What the college professor pro-fessor needs is courage to fight for his rights and the rights of his wife and children. Saturday Post. |