Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search of a thorough, modern education Now it has little to offer. Its teachers, sadly underpaid, are at best average. Its library, once unequalled, still boasting great collections (Dante, Petrarch, Icelandic) is slowly decaying in Willard Fiske's old building. Lack of funds prevents the erection of a new one; prevents the purchase of enough new books; limits the staff to a few hardworked, underpaid...
...blame may be placed on the professors themselves. At its best the academic profession, in proportion to the study and preparation necessary for the attainment of success in it, is the most grossly underpaid in the world. At its worst it offers only inevitable starvation; at the top of the ladder there is only a quickly reached maximum salary that would seem like a miserable pitance to a second rate lawyer. So when the chance for self betterment comes in the field the man is a fool who does not take advantage of the opportunity to remove the threat...
...pals were underpaid...
...doesn't it? With a well-bred indifference for such mundane affairs. Harvard's intellectuals including those many students who come of working class families and find it necessary to work their way through Harvard go their way serenely indifferent to the plight of Harvard's large staff of underpaid workers, whose condition is a disgrace to the University...
...country to act like a penny-pinching miser. The University does, to some extent, act charitably in employing women on part time who would have difficulty in finding comparable work elsewhere, but last month's case gives no sign whatsoever of any feeling of responsibility toward these underpaid workers, many of whom have served the University for long terms...