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Show Talk of A. C. Inconsistency The Tritune thus di?euses eiit annual reports cf salaries, ued by the Agricultural college: . l.c discljsure that causes mist comment by educators and citizens interested :n Utah's higher educational wcrk is that the professors on the agricultural staff are paid Jess salaries than many of the teachers in other dipartments. For instance,. the professor of agrtnon y and vet- nary .science, a m.. who hrs been connected with the institu- tion eight or ten years, is paid $300 Jess annual salary than the nrofssor of Erm-lish. who came to the school last fall. The professor pro-fessor of botany, entomology and .LiLictiiLue is paid less salary ban the teacher of mathematics rthe teacher of English, and ?ven less than is paid for comparatively com-paratively unimportant work from an agricultural standpoint of teaching history and political economy. . The professor of animal ani-mal biology gets $200 lass each year than the teacher of mathematics, mathe-matics, t'n teacher of English or the teache of sociology. The professor uf nnimal industry and dairy i og receives $200 less an nua "1 oilnry than the professor of mathematics or the p- ofessor of political economy. Still further, trie one branch of English grammar gram-mar and literature alone lias teaches who are paid in the aggregate ag-gregate $5700 per annum, a sum eual to tn..t piid for teaching ths ixpo;tant subjects of dairying, dairy-ing, animal industry, pouHr-,' rais-nsr. biology, ' entomology, botany, forestry, landscape gardening, gar-dening, vegetable growing and horticult ire. - It is claimed by some persous that this seeming discrimination against the teachers of agricul ture in the matter of salaries has an effect that is more farreach-ing farreach-ing than to merely, humiliate the teachers directly affected. The fact of- lower sa'aries beiog known to the individual students naturally places the agricultural staff in an inferior light before .the young people. . The result of all tnis is so well-informed persons-assert, that agriculture is relegated to a back seat in the minds of the students, as well as the general public. |