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A GREATER GETTYSBURG that figure in 1944-1945.53 When, upon reaching the age of seventy, Eli Huber retired as Amanda Rupert Strong professor in 1904, the trustees passed the customary resolutions expressing appreciation of his service to the College, but they did nothing more. He neither became a professor emeritus nor did he receive a pension.54 In the spring of 1904, his experience was similar to those of retiring faculty members in all but a very few American colleges or universities. Within a year, however, the situation began to change dramatically. On April 18, 1905 Andrew Carnegie transferred to what soon became the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching securities valued at $10,000,000, the income from which was to be used to provide pensions for retired college and university professors in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland. "I have reached the conclusion that the least rewarded of all the professions is that of the teacher in our higher educational institutions," he wrote. "Able men hesitate to adopt teaching as a career and many old professors whose places should be occupied by younger men can not be retired." Carnegie hoped that this gift would "do much for the cause of higher education and . . . remove a source of deep and constant anxiety to the poorest paid and yet one of the highest of all professions."55 Within six weeks of Carnegie's gift, on May 25, 1905, the Gettysburg faculty "respectfully and earnestly" asked the trustees "to take steps to secure for us participation in the benefits of the Carnegie Pension Fund." Their reason was simple enough: "the smallness of our salaries and their insufficiency for laying up a competance [sic] 53This discussion has been limited to salaries for professors. Most other faculty ranks did not exist until some time after 1904 and until the 1920s it was the professors who time and again took the initiative in seeking increases for themselves as well as for other College employees. There was no salary range for professors; in 1944-1945 only two were not receiving $4,500. The range for associate professors was from $3,200 to $3,800, for assistant professors from $2,640 to $3,380, and for instructors from $1,500 to $2,600. The salary of the president, which was $2,000 in 1904, had reached $4,000 by 1915, $6,000 by 1924, $8,000 by 1927, and $10,000 by 1943. It remained at this figure in 1944-1945. The salary of the dean was the same as that of a professor. Faculty members might increase their income, and many did, by teaching in a summer session, either at Gettysburg or elsewhere. 54Huber was the first Gettysburg professor to retire at the age of seventy years. Michael Jacobs was fifty-eight when illness led to his resignation in 1866. Adam Martin was sixty-three when he retired in 1898. Harvey McKnight was sixty-one when he left office in 1904. The trustees very generously voted Adam Foutz a lifetime pension of $5 per month when he retired as janitor in 1906. 55The New York Times for April 28,1905 announced Carnegie's gift in its lead story, which reprinted his letter and identified the twenty-five trustees he named to begin administering the fund. 44