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The New York Post inveighs against the custom so prevalent in American colleges of paying professors the lowest possible salaries. The tendency to the scholar's life, it says, is not very strong among our young men at best, but nothing better calculated to diminish it could well be hit on than the spectacle presented to them all over the country of professors who are either fourth-rate men, for whom their wretched salaries are full remuneration, or first-rate men toiling for what barely keeps body and soul together, and places them, in an intensely mercantile community, in humiliating contrast with men of nearly every occupation above unskilled labor.
