Items of Interest April 21, 1906 ISSUE

Items of Interest

The trustees of the Carnegie foundation, who are charged with administering $10,000,-000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie to provide pensions for professors and teachers of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada, met recently and adopted a scale of pensions. The income from the fund will be about $500,000 a year, and there are now on file two hundred applications from professors. It is expected the system will be the actual operation by June. The rules as adopted by the trustees make the following provisions:—

Any person sixty-five years of age and having served not less than fifteen years as a professor, who is at the time of his retirement a professor in an accepted institution, shall be entitled to an annual retirement allowance as follows:—

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