SACRIFICE AND SALARIES.

The writer of the second communication printed below apparently feels that professors and instructors are at present receiving a living wage and that any increase of pay beyond this living wage will bring teachers such an excess of comforts and personal pleasures that their attention will be detracted from their all-important duty of educating the youth of the country. He fears the influence of men who go into teaching for the money there is in it, "men who are attracted by high pay."

Has it ever occurred to him that teachers are notoriously the poorest paid professional men, that while the cost of living has soared, with a consequent increase of wages in all other branches of activity, instructors are now living on the same pay they received years ago? A man cannot do his best when he is constantly required to work overtime and outside of his regular duties in order to make both ends meet. Our correspondent's theories are delightful but scarcely convincing. It is at least novel to see an undergraduate demanding "personal sacrifice" from his instructors.