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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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144 AT THE TURNING POINT ogy, and physical culture for women, while pedagogy had been given a separate head, and for a time figured as a distinct "course.'' A year later there were 71 names on the faculty roll; among the accessions at about this time were David Kinley, T. A. Clark, E. J. TownBend, A. H. Daniels, L. P. jBreckinridge, E. B. Greene, J. M. White, and D. K. Dodge. Practically the present system of faculty grades was adopted, while early in 1894 a Trustees' committee on salaries drew up a scale by which deans should be paid up to $2,500, professors up to $2,250, associate professors up to $2,000, and so on. Above all, Burrill was insistent on the grant of a new freedom to professors. They were not now engaged or discharged in June, but March, so that they could terminate old contracts in the one case or hunt new positions in the other. The senseless, little-heeded rule requiring a grant of leave for absence in vacations was repealed. A sabbatical year on half salary for full professors was recommended, though Burrill admitted that there were insufficient funds for this. Through the appointment of committees with standing duties, the faculty was given a share in the administration at which Peabody would have gasped. As for teaching, henceforth Burrill directed that every effort should be made to make the professor feel "that those in authority have faith in him, and that he is to be judged mainly by results."1 When Burrill took office, an entirely new organization had already been planned. With the money from the Morrill Supplementary Act in prospect, announcement •The enlarged faculty brought men from all over the country, and their experience with academic methods and outlook elsewhere removeil from the University's administration a oertain parochial quality that had marked it.
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