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drawing. The faculty at Monmouth had from seven to nine- teen members ; Drain in its palmy days had twelve teachers ; the other two schools as a rule employed nine.
The salaries were low. State aid enabled the regents to increase salaries, but at the highest mark there could be no just criticism on the score of their being exorbitant. In 1901 Drain received an appropriation of $10,000, yet spent only $6,903.20. The positions were dignified by being called "chairs," and the salary schedule at Drain in 1901 was as follows :
President $1,500
Chair of Mathematics 800
Chair of History 750
Chair of Science 750
Chair of English 700
Principal of Training School 600
Assistant 400
Music Teacher (half time) 250
Janitor 200
Monmouth paid better salaries, as witness in 1898 : 41
President $1,800
H. B. Buckham 1,200
Sarah Tuthill 1,200
J. M. Powers 1,000
A. F. Campbell 1,000
B. F. Mulkey 1,000
W. A. Warm 1,000
Ellen J. Chamberlain 800
Mrs. R. C. French 700
Louis P. Freytag 650
William Fellows 375
J. B. V. Butler 500
The sessions were uniformly forty weeks in length, and the year was divided into four terms of ten weeks each. School usually began the first week in September, and closed the following June. The first summer school was held at Mon-
41 Report of Board of Regents, 1889.
