Caption: Booklet - Status of University
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The Mattel of Salaries The question of better salaries must b considered from the standpoint of the i versity rather than of the faculty. Tl great fact Is thai the b t men cannot be held < in university service at the pr< lit Scale, t nor i HI young men b tttracted to this line < of work by the salary prospects. The value of the University to the Slate and the best use of public funds, depend largely on the kind of men thai in be induced to work in public i rvice. Th< money would be spent wha ver the scale of salaries, but how will it be spent? Thl is the whole question, and it turn.; upon tic kind of men whom the University can hold, and whom it can induce to prepare adequately to take the plac< being so rapidly vacated by death and other natural causes, in addition to the com lilt calls of tie business world. On pages 6 and 7 is a chart showing th< relation between enrolment and I nd- itures for the the past six years. Line " A " shows the total in< >me of t he I 'Diversity from Stale appropriation Federal appropriations, student fe< , ' md all other- source,. The Federal ignment is not available for ordinary < ditun . The State appropriations h lu<b money for permanent improvemenI as for operation and inaiiilciiati •. well Th< last appropriation included, in addition to the mill tax, $ 100,000 for a medical laboratory in Chicago, and $ i,000 for stables for irtillery and cavalry horse in th< MEili Department. L < Ing th< out, it is evi• dent that i he rate of incn ol ln< is v< / much lower than (he rat, ••{' in of ih 'I b id( iii teaching? and other i nivei iiy. line in I up Ms <\ ho« lh< between o| ,i mi- . pendiiui . and unrol 10
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