Word: high
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from all the quacks that infest Cambridge, still in the company of those who would remain are found men in whom alone Harvard has real existence...
Harvard has no room for men who are attracted by high pay. Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
There are quite a number of instructors whose time is taken up with work that belongs in the nursery and which is shirked by the high schools. When we have made all other reforms, if the cost of living demands it, we shall, as heretofore, increase the salaries of these instructors. But we cannot afford bribes to keep their noses to useless grindstones. We shall still their whines and sap their shoddy patronage of puppy yellow journals, but let it be clearly understood we appreciate that they are incapable of sacrifice...
...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...teachers such an excess of comforts and personal pleasures that their attention will be detracted from their all-important duty of educating the youth of the country. He fears the influence of men who go into teaching for the money there is in it, "men who are attracted by high...