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...first annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of learning states that the pension list of the institution is now $122,130. Eighty-eight professors, only forty-five of whom were in institutions eligible to the fund, have been retired on pensions. Eight widows of professors have been pensioned. A retiring professor who has a small salary gets a proportionately larger pension than one on a larger salary. The pensions vary from $800 to $2000 and average $1552 to those in accepted institutions; $1302 to individual professors and $833 to widows. The trustees of the Foundation have excluded...
...question for the final trials of both teams and for the Pasteur Medal Debate has been revised to read as follows: "Resolved, That the French Government should adopt a scheme granting pension to superannuated workmen...
North American Review--"English Idiosyncrasies," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "A Pension Fund for College Professors." by C. F. Thwing...
...first performance of the seventh annual play of the Deutscher Verein, "Pension Scholler," given last night at Brattle Hall, was remarkably jolly and successful. The play was carried through without a break and with action and spirit. The pronunciation was exceptionally faithful, the costumes characteristic and the scenery effective...
Finally Klapproth returns home glad to escape from the eccentricities of the Pension Scholler. His consternation may be imagined when on the following day, the various "patients" on one pretext or another come to visit him. Of course he thinks they have escaped, manages to lock them up in different rooms, and telegraphs to Scholler, the owner of the pension for help. At last the misunderstandings are cleared up to the satisfaction and amusement of all concerned...