Word: pritchett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week he was given as distinguished an educational post as the nation affords: the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in which he succeeded Henry Smith Pritchett, 73, co-founder and president of the Foundation since its inception 25 years...
When Andrew Carnegie, believing that "the least rewarded of all the professions is that of the teacher," wanted someone to direct the organization which was to be endowed with $10,000,000 worth of his U. S. Steel Corp. bonds, he chose his good friend President Pritchett of M. I. T. To President Pritchett, astronomer as well as educator, Mr. Carnegie applied his celebrated industrial maxim: "Find an efficient man and enable him to do the work." For years President Pritchett was not only Andrew Carnegie's next door neighbor in Manhattan, but his chief philanthropic adviser and severest...
...doddering but happy security. Sometimes the alumni do something about it, giving big sums to their schools and colleges. But few have much scientific knowledge of pension systems. So that those interested in that phase of U. S. pedagogy might be better informed, last week President Henry Smith Pritchett issued Bulletin No. 25 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its title: "The Social Philosophy of Pensions, with a Review of Existing Pension Systems for Professional Groups...
...philosophy of annuities for the superannuated, said forthright President Pritchett: "Society does not owe any man a pension. . . . Any pension under which the beneficiary is provided with an old age annuity without cost or participation by himself is, in the long run, demoralizing to any group of men, however high-minded...
...sound retirement pay plan for pedagogs, as submitted by President Pritchett includes: 1) an annual or monthly payment (10% of salary suggested) equally divided by the teacher and the institution; 2) each teacher to have "an individual contract clearly describing his obligations and his rights;" 3) an arrangement whereby the premiums are arranged on a sliding scale with his salary; 4) "On separation from the service before retirement the teacher must be able to take with him the entire equity accumulated under his retirement contract;" 5) Adequate machinery . . . " to invest and handle the accumulated funds...