Wives of Instructors at Northwestern University Are Forced to Do Their Own Work.
Chicago.—A questionnaire among the faculty members of the college of liberal arts at Northwestern university was responded to by fifty-two and showed, "things that among professors and instructors whose salaries are less than $1,500 the modern "hired girl" is known.
"If the instructor marries, his wife must do all the housework for some time," the faculty report, recently submitted to the trustees of the university, says.
But worst of all, even when the instructor has worked his way up the ladder to the position of associate or assistant professor, "we find him," the report continues, "still unable to spend much of anything for domestic service. Not even in the group of men receiving the salaries of full professors do we find an average expenditure sufficient to pay a maid's wages for one year."
At Northwestern, the full professor, so called, receives from $3,000 to $4,000 yearly.
The questionnaire also elicited other information which the Northwestern "Ü" teacher claims entitles him to something more than the 25 percent increase of salary recently announced by Campaign Chairman Dyche.
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