Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contending that vast university building programs result in underpaid professors, Yandell Henderson, professor of Physiology at Yale recently made known percentage figures of the amounts of university incomes devoted to salary use. Yandell's figures are as follows: Johns Hopkins 65 percent; Princeton 42 per cent; Yale 43 per cent; and Harvard 23 per cent. No estimate as to the relative total income figures was named reported, but Harvard was named as the leading fire in this present lamented state of things...
Children of college professors, being brought up in an atmosphere of learning and culture, are peculiarly well fitted to profit from a college education. To them especially its advantages should be open. As a class, college professors are usually underpaid, and relieving them of the burden of tuition for their sons and daughters would be some compensation for the financial sacrifice involved in teaching...
...Last January the crew of the submarine tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled and that they were to paint ship on Sunday (TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
...function adequately as a professional information center, it must have sufficient financial support to provide for the necessary research. President Lowell in his annual report stated that the school needed an endowment of five million dollars. The school in the past has been chiefly supported by the devoted and underpaid labor of part-time teachers. This proposed increase in the Dental School's activities should logically bring with it some increase in financial support...
...scrubwomen case has called the attention of the University to a general condition of underpaid employees. A promise has been made that this situation will be investigated. Expositions such as the Association gave can only bring the tinge of the ridiculous to a serious matter that deserves the thoughtful attention of all Harvard men. The Square Deal Association's conduct of the matter has appeared to be one of riding into the spot-light of fame on a wave of public sympathy for the scrubwomen. Only when they declare their ball a success have they evidenced any touch of modesty...