Excerpt from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: A Statement to the Teachers in the Associated Colleges and Universities During the twelve years of its existence, the officers and trustees of the Carnegie Foundation have been engaged in a study of the whole problem of the protection of teachers against the hazards incident to the life of the professional man living upon modest fixed salary. This study resolved itself into three practical questions: First, Is the free pension system as originally adopted by the Foun dation in the interest of the teacher and can it be made permanent? Second, If the free pension is not a permanent solution, what are the terms upon which an adequate and enduring system of protection for college teachers should be based? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.