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THE STATE UNIVERSITIES.
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4,500 kronor, likewise with the two said advances. Assistants in the medical
faculties receive 4,500 kronor, those in the philosophical faculties and observatories,
3,000 kronor. The docents have no fixed salaries, but the State has established,
for their benefit, a number of docent stipends of 1,500 and 1,200 kronor (14 + 5
at Uppsala and 10 + 5 at Lund), which, on the recommendation by the respective
faculty, are given by the chancellor to deserving docents for a period of three
years, subject to extension. The university lecturers in modern languages each
receive a yearly fee of 2,000 kronor. (A krona = 1mo shilling or 0’268 dollar).
Ordinary professors (but not associates), are entitled to a pension of 4,500
à 5,500 kronor, on attaining 65 years of age. This latter amount is given to
those who have held their professorship ten years at the least. In some cases
the Riksdag has granted a pension of 3,000 kronor to associate professors.
Widows and children of deceased professors (ordinary or associate), as well as
those of any deceased official of the universities, receive pensions from special
Pension-funds, to which every official must contribute.
The Academical Society’s building, Lund.
The Academical Tear begins September 1 and is divided into the
Autumn-term (Sept. 1—Dec. 15) and the Spring-term (Jan. 15—June 1). Both the
ordinary and the associate professors are, as a rule, bound to lecture publicly on their
science one hour four days a week. All public instruction, whether by lectures
or seminary exercises, is free of charge. But the private instruction, given for
the most part by the docents, is paid for.
The courses of study are at Swedish universities unusually long. On an
average, 6 to 8 years are required for the degree of licentiate of philosophy, 7 years
for the candidate’s degree in law, 9 years for the candidate’s degree in theology
Sweden. 22
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