Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-21
63 FELLOWSH|PS
. IN RESEARCH GIVEN
Five Women Receive Grants
Under Guggenheim Me-
mortal Foundation.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Fellow-
ship grants of $4,000 TO assist 60
American scholars and artists to carry
on research and creating work abroad
during 1928 were announced yes
terday by trustees of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Fifty-five are new fellowships award
ed persons in % States and from %
different educational institutions. Re-
appointments were given eight named
last year to enable them to complete
research work already in progress.
The list includes five women.
The foundation was established in
1925 by former United States Senator
and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as
memorial to son who died in 1922.
The entire income from the capital
fund of $3.50 900, the gift of Senator
and Mrs. Guggenheim, is devoted TO
the award in the Spring of each year
of fellowships to scholars and artists
who have demonstrated unusual ca
pacity for productive scholarship or
unusual creative ability. The amount
of each fellowship usually is $1,000
for a period of II months.
900 Applicants for Awards.
Awards announced yesterday were
to persons selected from 600 appli-
cants by a committee composed of
President Frank Aydelotte. Swarth'
more College. chairman; President
Ada Louise ComstOck, Radcliffe Col
lege: President Frederick {. Ferry.
Hamilton College: Prof. Charles
Homer Haskins, Harvard University,
and Dean Charles 3. Lifman, Unlver-
sity of California.
Subjects for investigation include
research into the origin and response.
bility of the World War, histories OF
Irish and Swedish immigration to the
United States, the effects OF low
temperature on plants and studies or
the internal factors that control the
size of organisms during growth. Re
searches in music, economics, history
and medicine, as well as creative work
in musical composition, painting and
sculpture also are included. The IN
vestigators will study in China. India,
Mesopotamia and Africa, as well as
Europe.
Awarded FellOwships.
Among the new fellowship awards
were:
DR.. Frank c. Hoyt, DIR. Bernadotte
Everly Schmitt, DIR. Archer Taylor and
DIR. Leonard Dupre White, University
Of Chicago.
DR.. Rodney Beecher Harvey. DR..
Lloyd Hilton Reyerson and DR.. George
Malcolm Stephenson, University OF
Minnesota.
DR.. Ralph Erskine Cleland and DIR.
Mollie Ray Carroll, Goucher College,
Baltimore. Md.
DR.. Carl Henry Eckert and DR..
william Vermillion Houston, California
Institute of Technology. Pasadena.
DR.. George Ernest Gibson and DR..
Victor F. Benzen, University of Cali
fornia.
DR.. Frederick Charles Dietz and DIR.
Arthur Wellesley Secord, University of
Illinois.
Samuel Vance Chamberlain and DIR.
Lewis Victor Heilbrunn, University
of Michigan.
DIR. Ernes Theodore Dewald and DIR.
Frank Dunstone Graham, Princeton
University.
DR.. Eber Malcolm Carroll and DIR. J.
Fred Rippy, Duke University, Dur
ham, n. c.
Others Receiving Grants.
DR.. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Con.
verse College. Spartanburg. S. c.
DIR. Richard Bradfield, University Of
Missouri.
DIR. William Ruthrauff ANDERSON,
University OF FennSylFdnld.
Dr. Ford Keller Brown, st. Johns
College. Annapolis, Md
Award Fairbanks, University of Ore
gon.
DIR. Edwin Blake Payson. University
OFF Wyoming.
DR.. Richard j. Purcell. Catholic Uni
versity of America, Washington. ID. c.
DR.. John Andrew Rice, jr., Univer-
sity of Nebraska.
Harry Schultz Vandiver, University
Of Texas.
DR.. Roger Nerves Wells. Bryn Mawr
College, Pa.
DIR. Frank Lawrence Owsley, Van
derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
DR.. William Jerome Wilson, State
Normal School, Cheney, Wash.
DR.. J. Walter Woodrow, Iowa State
College. Ames, Iowa.
Roy Ellsworth Harris, Covina Calf.
DIR. Helen Moore Johnson. Osceola,
Mo.
Receive Grant Renewals.
Renewal grants included
DIR. Wallace Reed Brode, Bureau Of
Standards, Washington, d. G.
DIR. J. Penrose Harland, University
Of Cincinnati, Ohio.
DIR. Linus Carl Pauling, California
Institute of Technology.
DR.. Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
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