Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — Pay of Professors. [ARTICLE]

Pay of Professors.

At a dinner of the Alumni of Brown University the other day. President Faunce spoke of the work of the college professor, whose real business be declared to be “not to stuff the student’s mind with information, but to train the intellect to grapple with and analyze complex situations.” That this Important business Is ill paid he illustrated by telling of a question and its answqr. “If you won’t take offense,” said a rich man to a college professor, "what salary do you receive?” “Twelve hundred dollars,” was the reply. “Why,” replied the rich man, “that la fust what I pay my chauffeur, except that when I take him out of town I pay all his expenses.” Then Dr. Faunce asked his audience. afford to pay our chauffeurs as ranch as we pay the men who educate our sons?” It was a pertinent question, tellingly put Which should have the greater reward—the man who drives an automobile or the man who trains the Intellect for the tasks of life?