On the salary, or fee, of teachers

IN the northern schools teachers’ salaries are not paid from the public treasury as in the distinguished academies of other countries, such as Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, but from church tithes and the bishop’s revenue, and from a share in the will of departing rectors or curates who, with the permission of bishop and chapter, have at their death bequeathed three or four silver marks, either more or less, or property of equivalent value, to the students’ coffer. ¹ This share is looked on as a debt and takes precedence over the allotments given to the blood relations and heirs who succeed him.