Evening star., 1925-03-21

Benefits for American scholarship,
new opportunities for students, great
er tolerance among the people and
Improvement in good will among the
nations are results foreseen by the
newspapers of the country in their
attitude toward the gift of $1,000
600 by former Senator and Mrs Gug-
genheim as a preliminary endowment
for 80 fellowships for international
study.
There can be no nobler use of
wealth than in the creation of op-
portunity for others along life's
pathway" says the Scranton Repub-
lican editorially. ''Mr. Guggenheim
has earned the right to proclaim him
self as one who loves his fellow
men, The St. Paul Dispatch OBJ
serves that the scholar is still per-
petually searching for means to car
ry on his work without sacrificing
his freedom and believes that Mr..
Guggenheim, "as many have done
before him, makes an outright gift to
An impersonal foundation, which dis
penses this patronage on as strict a
basis of deserts as any corporation
ment'' The Oakland Tribune, in
recognizing tho great value of the
contribution, comments on the fact
that this rich man proposes to endow
scholars with opportunity" in the
knowledge that some of the finest
minds, some of the most constructive
thinkers in the world, have been Sc
riously hampered in turning their
natural gifts to- the best advantage
by the lack of adequate financial
backing" General effect is dis
cussed by the Cleveland Plain Deal
er: 1.-THE fellowships contemplate
the education of the educated. Their
effect upon the scholarly contribu-
tions of American authors will be
watched with much interest both in
this country and in the foreign coun-
tries where the researches are to be
conducted"
"Profiting by the experience of the
Cecil Rhodes scholarships" in the
view of the New York Evening Post,
''the new foundation will avoid some
Of the mistakes which have limited
the benefits of that benevolence and
will widen the field of those who will
be eligible to participation in it's ad
vantages. The fellowships will not
be confined to the younger graduates
Of the colleges, nor necessarily to
graduates at all, but will be given
wherever the results are most prom
Using for the encouragement of re-
search in music, art or science, and
IOT SIuOIeS III pOiIllCdl OF puSiHcSs
progress. The possibilities for use
fulness are illimitable." 1t promises
to do more for American scholarship
than tho Rhodes bequest, says the
Lincoln State Journal, which adds:
Its benefits will be shared by stu
dent and faculty bodies to large de-
gree, IL the wishes of the founders
are fully realized" The New Haven
Register suggests that what the
Rhodes scholarships have done to-
ward implanting love for English In
stitutions in the hearts Of many
Americans who have been their re-
cipients, an American foundation
could do to stimulate love for Amer
lea in worthy foreign scholars"
Forecasting results, the New York
Herald-Tribune believes that research
is crowding education and that the
scientific method is reviving the old
popular attitude toward knowledge
as a thing of value in itself.
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Broad benefits are seen by the
Miami Daily News, which states: I'm
the three lines-education, research
and better international understand
ing-there is an apparent need for
better training of men and women in
this country. The need now can be
moro nearly filed" Closer intellec-
tual relations between the people of
the United States and those Of the
lands to which these scholars will