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...classrooms, there is a shortage of teachers, for few professions in France are so poorly paid. Average salaries run from $85 a month for primary schoolteachers to $300 for full-fledged university professors. As a result, says Deputy Charles Viatte, "each year practically all the professors who receive their agrégation in physics immediately abandon the teaching profession. The agrégation is the degree which normally should lead them to teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation...
Sheen did brilliantly at Louvain; he was the first American to win the Cardinal Mercier prize, awarded once a decade for the best philosophical treatise. In 1925, Louvain granted him the degree (he has eleven others) of which he is proudest-Agrégé en Philosophic (a kind of Ph.D. plus...
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...bounty system creates a sugar industry. - (a) Establishment is unusually expensive and difficult: U. S. Dep. of Agr. Bulletin, 29, p. 50. - A bounty tides over the critical time of beginning: Sherman and Allison, Cong. Rec. 1889-90. - Beet-sugar industries have be n built up by a bounty system abroad: Lalor's Ency...