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Malcolm Warner, Lecturer in Government, University of Essex, England: The function of television as a media for the dissemination of political news. Columbia University.

Michael L.H. Weaver, Researcher, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, England: The social, intellectual, and aesthetic background of the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Yale University. (Renewed to July 1, 1967.)

Tjebbe A. Westendorp, *Leraar* in English and American literature, Stanislas College, The Netherlands: Robert Penn Warren and the literature of the American South. University of North Carolina.

Gwyn Alfred Williams, Professor of History, University of York, England: A study in depth of American society and politics in the period 1789-1801. University of Pennsylvania.

Bryan Ronald Wilson, Reader in Sociology, University of Oxford, England: Millen-
nial movements in the United States. University of California,
Berkeley.

Mitsukuni Yasaki, Professor of Legal Philosophy and History of Legal Thought, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan: Legal positivism in the United States. Columbia University.

(SB)

10 August 1966

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

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May 25, 1967

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
Department of American Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Professor Pearson:

Please substitute the en-closed first page of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Terms of Award for Dr. Norman C. Talbot for the first page of the copy we sent to you in early February.

Enclosure

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May 25, 1967

Dr. Norman C. Talbot
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Australia

Dear Dr. Talbot:

I am pleased to inform you that you have been awarded an ACLS International Fellowship in American Studies to be initiated in 1967. This Fellowship, made possible through ACLS support received from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is awarded to you for the purpose of enabling you to undertake advanced research in the United States in the field of American literature.

The terms and conditions of your Fellowship are described in the following paragraphs.

## Affiliation

The American Council of Learned Societies has arranged for your affiliation as a Visiting Scholar for the academic year 1967-68 with Yale University, where you will be attached to the Department of American Studies. Your Faculty Sponsor and Advisor will be Professor Harold Bloom of the Department. You should correspond with Professor Bloom on any questions you might have regarding your reception and affiliation at Yale University, and advise him of your scheduled date of arrival there.

## Maintenance Allowance

Acting on the assumption that from the continuance of a portion of your present salary from the University of Newcastle, you will have $300.00 per month available to you for your maintenance in the United States, the ACLS will provide you with an additional monthly allowance contribution of $150.00 per month for yourself, and, if they accompany you, $100.00 per month for your wife, and $75.00 per month for each of your three children, for a total ACLS contribution of $475.00 per month. This stipend will begin with the date of your arrival in New York City, which should be about September 1, 1967, and your initial check will cover the period from that date until January 1, 1968. Subsequent maintenance allowance payments will be made to you on January 1 and April 1, 1968. Your ACLS Fellowship is currently scheduled to terminate on July 1, 1968.

## Copies to:

* ✓ Professor Norman Holmes Pearson

* Professor Harold Bloom

* Mrs. Etta S. Onat

* ACLS Comptroller

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January 24, 1967

Mrs. Etta S. Onat
Assistant Dean
The Graduate School
Yale University
New Haven, Conn. 06520

Dear Mrs. Onat:

Please find enclosed this Council's check in the amount of $2,000.00, payable to "Yale University".

This sum represents the ACLS contribution of $500.00 per Fellow toward such expenses as the University may incur in assisting during the second half of the academic year 1966-67 four ACLS American Studies Fellows affiliated as Visiting Scholars with your Department of American Studies. Those Fellows are:

Mr. Charles D. DOYLE of the University of Auckland

Dr. Robert A. GOTTWALD of the Free University of Berlin

Mr. Fred H. LANGMAN of the Australian National University

Mr. Michael L.H.L. WEAVER of Magdalene College, Cambridge University.

Mr. Doyle will be arriving at Yale University in late April or early May. The other three Fellows are currently at the University.

Enclosure

cc: Professor Edmund S. Morgan
Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
ACLS Comptroller

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January 24, 1967

Mrs. Etta S. Onat
Assistant Dean
The Graduate School
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Mrs. Onat:

Thank you very much for your letter of January 18th, accepting five new ACLS American Studies Fellows for affiliation as Visiting Scholars with Yale University.

Dr. Kaizuka is informed that Professor Goldsmith may not be at Yale University next year, but prefers affiliation with Yale in any case.

Mr. Charles D. Doyle plans to arrive in New Haven around May 1st of this year. His current address is c/o Mrs. Doran R. Doyle, Williams Deacons Bank, 9 Pall Mall, London, England, and you may get in touch immediately with him at that address should you wish. (A copy of his Terms of Award is enclosed for your information.)

I shall be sending to you copies of the Terms of Award we are issuing to the other four Fellows within the next two weeks. Upon your receipt of those copies, which will give the Fellows' current addresses, you should feel free to correspond with them.

You have raised the question of the cost-of-training fee. I believe I am correct in saying that the ACLS believes that it should contribute an equal amount per Fellow per institution for university expenses in receiving and assisting an individual affiliated with the institution as a visiting scholar. (Should the Fellow enroll as a graduate student for course credits or a degree, however, the ACLS would pay the institution's normal fees or tuition for such enrollment.) Since a number of universities levy no charges for "Visiting Scholar" affiliation, we adopted the $500.00 contribution per Fellow per semester as our norm. I believe that it would be financially most difficult, and probably inappropriate, for the ACLS to raise its contribution to all universities to $950.00 per Fellow per semester. I therefore request you to continue accepting ACLS Fellows with the ACLS contribution of $500.00 per Fellow per semester. I shall, however, raise the matter with our Advisory Committee on American Studies when next it meets.

CCProf Norman Holmes Pearson
Yale
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December 19, 1966

Dear Mrs. Onat:

Yale University has been most cooperative these past few years in accepting for affiliation as Visiting Scholars some of the recipients of American Studies Fellowships awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies. I now have the pleasure of requesting the University to consider for similar affiliation five scholars from the Western Pacific.

Mr. Charles Desmond Doyle is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Mr. Doyle will arrive in the United States in April, 1967, for a stay of nine months which will be devoted to research on William Carlos Williams. He requests primary affiliation with the appropriate department at Yale University, although a portion of the coming summer he will spend on the Williams collection at the University of Buffalo. His family will accompany him.

Mr. Takeo Hamamoto is from Tokyo, Japan, where he is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Meiji University, and Lecturer in American Literature at Chuo University. His research interests are focussed upon the contemporary American novel. The ACLS believes that his fluency in spoken English needs improvement, and he will spend the summer of 1967 in an intensive English language course of instruction at the University of Hawaii. He would plan to arrive at Yale University, for affiliation with the appropriate department, in early September, 1967, and remain for the entire academic year. He is aware that Mr. Robert Bone, in whose work he was particularly interested, is no longer on the Yale University faculty. Mr. Hamamoto will *not* be accompanied by his family.

Dr. Keimei Kaizuka is Associate Professor of Economics at Osaka University, Japan. He is engaged in research upon the American economy immediately preceding World War I. He would plan to arrive at Yale University at the beginning of September, where it is hoped that he might work under the guidance of Professor Raymond W. Goldsmith. He will be accompanied by his family.

Mrs. Etta S. Onat

December 19, 1966

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Mr. Susumu Miura is Professor of American History at the Fukuoka Women's University on the island of Kyushu in Japan. His research interests are focussed upon the Reconstruction Period, and he hopes to work under the guidance of Professor C. Vann Woodward. He would arrive in early September and will not be accompanied by his family.

Dr. Norman C. Talbot is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is interested in modern American poetry, and would like to work under the guidance of Professor Harold Bloom. He would arrive at the beginning of September, and will be accompanied by his family.

These scholars' application forms for an ACLS Fellowship are attached for your information. Their Fellowships will cover all their expenses in the United States.

I hope very much that you will agree to their affiliation, and that you will designate those members of your faculty willing to serve as Faculty Sponsors and Advisors for each of these Fellows. As in the case of previous ACLS Fellows affiliated with Yale, this Council will be pleased to contribute $500.00 per Fellow per semester toward such expenses as the University may encounter in assisting them.

I will appreciate receiving your early decision, particularly in the case of Mr. Doyle, and I thank you once again for the University's fine cooperation in this Fellowship program.

Enclosures

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AMERICAN STUDIES SENIOR FELLOWS 1966-67

Comprehensive list of Senior Fellows invited to visit the United States as guests of the American Council of Learned Societies during the academic year 1966-67.

Professor Makoto SAITO, Professor of American Government, University of Tokyo, Japan. Spring, 1967.

Professor Ingrid SEMMINGSEN, Professor of American History, University of Oslo, Norway. Autumn, 1966.

Professor Max SILBERSCHMIDT, Professor of Economic History, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Spring, 1967.

Professor Erwin STURZL, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Salzburg, Austria, Spring, 1967.

Professor Yasuo SUGA, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kyoto, Japan. Spring, 1967.

8/66

rc

December 16, 1966

Dean John Perry Miller
Graduate School

Dear John:

I thought you might be interested in the results of the Fellowship
awards by the ACLS, in American Studies, for 1967-68. The committee met on
the 9th. It was pleasant that more of those who received awards asked for
affiliation with Yale than for any other university.

The list is as follows:

JAPAN

Literature: Takao Hamamoto, Meiji University, Tokyo.

(The winner of the other award also would have liked Yale, but
since he had been at Yale before, and was to work on Henry James, the com-
mittee thought it better for him to go to NYU and Leon Edel.)

Economics: Keimei Kaizuka, Osaka University. (This is somewhat
dependent upon whether Goldschmidt is to be here.)

History: Susume Miura, Fukuoka Women's University, Fukuoka.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Literature: Charles D. Doyle, University of Auckland, New Zealand;

Norman C. Talbot, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Presumably these men would be affiliated with Yale's American
Studies program, although of course they will be free to pursue their own
researches.

cc: George Pierson

NHP/s

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October 11, 1966

Memorandum

TO: American Studies Advisory Committee

FROM: Ruth Craven, Secretary, American Studies Program

Thank you for responding so promptly to my memorandum of
October 3rd.

Since it is agreeable to all the members of the Advisory
Committee, we will now schedule the meeting for <u>Friday, December 9th</u>,
at 9:30 a.m. in the Terrace Lounge on the eleventh floor of this
building.

The agenda papers and fellowship applications will be sent
to you about two weeks in advance of the meeting.

Would you please let me know on the enclosed postcard whether
or not you would like me to make hotel reservations for you at the Barclay
Hotel?

We look forward to seeing you on December 9th.

Enclosure

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September 2, 1966

Memorandum

TO: ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee

FROM: R.W. Downar, Director, American Studies Program

I would like to schedule a meeting of the ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee in early December to consider applications for 1967-68 fellowships from Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and institutional grant requests from both Europe and the Pacific.

The provisional date set for the meeting is Saturday, December 10th.

Will you please let me know immediately if it will be impossible for you to attend a meeting on that date and, if so, whether the possible substitute dates of December 2nd, 3rd, and 9th would be feasible for you?

A postcard is enclosed for your reply. Would you please return it to us even if you will be able to attend a meeting on the 10th?

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September 2, 1966

Memorandum

TO: ACLS Board of Directors and ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee

FROM: Richard W. Downar, Director, ACLS American Studies Program

Each year the ACLS sends a report to the Ford Foundation on
the activities of the ACLS American Studies Program financed through
Ford Foundation grants of December, 1960, and December, 1964. This
year's report, with attachments, is enclosed for your information.

rc

June 26, 1967

Mr. Richard W. Downar, Director
American Studies Program
American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York, New York 10017

Dear Dick:

I am of course flattered that you would like to me serve again on the Acls American Studies Advisory Committee. I enjoy it as you know, and have very much the feeling of the effectiveness of the Program. And I was pleased to have the minutes of our last meeting, though I imagine you will eventually wish to correct the affiliation of Miss Smalbraak from Cornell to Yale. (I must say I was surprised that Cornell didn't want her.)

It was a pleasure to have Weaver here, and I am only sorry that I couldn't do more for all the ACLS Fellows. Unfortunately the double duty of Chairman and of Director of the Graduate Program kept me pretty much on the ropes. I am, however, as I told you, retiring from both positions, and will be free of administrative duties for the first time in twenty years. Professor Sydney E. Ahlstrom (an intellectual historian) will become Chairman as of July 1st, and Professor Charles Feidelson, Jr., will be Director of Graduate Studies, and as such will shepherd the Visiting Fellows and foreign students. Official business should be addressed to them; I shall, of course, be glad to do anything of an informal nature I can. Officially I shall be on leave next year, but will be here and have agreed to take care of Joubert and Terrier since I know them and their problems.

I shall be happy to go over the Taiwan applications with you, either here or in New York as you prefer. But in either case would it be possible for me to have a photocopy of the applications so I could go over them with Larry Chisolm. Chisolm helped me mightily with the three we tackled this spring and knows the situation in Taiwan personally. He will be away for the early part of August but could at least brief me. It seems to me a rare chance to get his advice. Or come up earlier and he can brief us both. We could at least get the bulk of them out of the way.

With all best wishes as always,

UP/s

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June 22, 1967

Dear Norman:

I am enclosing the minutes of the last meeting of the ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee. I have delayed sending them to you until I could inform you of the composition of the Committee for next year. I know that I should first have formally asked you if you would agree to serve another year, but your interest in the program has been so constant that I didn't do so. Besides, your help has been so truly valuable that I didn't want to risk the possibility of your deciding to withdraw. The new Committee will have five continuing members--yourself, Dean Griswold, John Goheen, Bill Gibson, and Bell Wiley--plus Professor Marver Bernstein (government, Princeton University), Professor Arthur Burns (economics, Columbia University, and President, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.), and Professor Robert Ferrell (history, Indiana University).

Michael Weaver was in just before returning to England and his new post at the University of Exeter. He emphasized what I have come to expect from any of our Fellows leaving Yale--the extraordinary amount of assistance, kindness, hospitality, and interest he had received from you. He, and we, are very grateful.

The Pacific competition draws to a close at the end of this month. Applications coming in from Australia and New Zealand at the same rate; slightly fewer from Japan, but with many fewer prospective candidates with inappropriate qualifications or fields of interest; and a surprisingly (to me) large number for the first year from Taiwan. Will you be around and available anywhere during the early part of August? If so, I would like to sit down with you for a couple of hours (I could easily come to New Haven unless you would be in the City somewhere along then, anyway) to go over the Chinese applications to see which should be

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## Minutes

1967-1 Meeting, April 21, 1967

ACLS Conference Room

The ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee met on April 21, 1967, at 9:30 a.m. Members of the Committee present were:

Professor James W. Angell, Columbia University

Professor William M. Gibson, New York University

Professor John Goheen, Stanford University

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson, Yale University

Professor Henry Nash Smith, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Bell I. Wiley, Emory University

Members absent were:

Professor Erwin N. Griswold, Harvard University

Professor William R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin

Staff members present were Mr. Richard W. Downar and Miss Ruth Craven.

### I. Institutional Grants

The Committee reviewed the requests submitted by foreign educational institutions, and recommended the following action:

#### A. Western Pacific

1. Approval of a grant to the *Flinders University of South Australia* of $12,860.00 per year for five years towards the establishment of a Professorship in American Studies, to be initiated no later than 1969, and a grant of $10,000.00 for library expansion in fields pertinent to the Professorship.

2. Approval of a grant to the *Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar*, Kyoto, Japan, contributing $4,000.00 toward the expenses of holding the 1967 seminar, and offering identical sums toward the expenses of the 1968, 1969, and 1970 seminars should the additional financial support needed to hold those sessions be secured.

3. Approval of a grant of $10,000.00, on a matching basis, available until January 1, 1969, to the *University of Otago* in Dunedin, New Zealand, for library expansion in the fields of American economy, government, history, and literature.

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September 2, 1966

Mr. Shepard Stone
International Affairs Program
The Ford Foundation
477 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022

Dear Mr. Stone:

I should like to report to you on ACLS American Studies Program activities made possible through Ford Foundation support during the twelve month period ending July 1, 1966. That period represents the final full year of the Program's operations under the Ford Foundation grant of December, 1960, (hereafter referred to as FF-1) which provided for four years of Fellowships and five years of Institutional and Special Project Grants in Western Europe. During the year under review, commitments were also made by the ACLS in awarding Fellowships and Institutional Grants in Western Europe and the Western Pacific under the terms of the new five-year Ford Foundation grant of $3,100,000.00 made to the ACLS on December 28, 1964 (hereafter referred to as FF-2).

The report sent to you at this time last year attempted to present a rather full description of the grants, and their results, financed through FF-1. In view of the nature of that report, information in the present letter will be of a more statistical nature.

Direction of the program continues to be exercised by the ACLS Board of Directors operating through its American Studies Advisory Committee. That Committee during the past year was composed of the following:

Prof. James W. Angell, Dept. of Economics, Columbia University

Prof. John Hope Franklin, Dept. of History, Chicago University

Prof. John D. Goheen, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University

Dean Erwin N. Griswold, The Law School, Harvard University

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Prof. Norman Holmes Pearson, Dept. of American Studies, Yale University

Prof. Henry Nash Smith, Dept. of English, University of California,
Berkeley

Prof. Robert E. Spiller, Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania

Prof. William R. Taylor, Dept. of History, University of Wisconsin

For the academic year 1966-67, the composition of the American Studies Advisory Committee will remain the same as listed above except that Professors Franklin and Spiller will be replaced by:

Prof. William M. Gibson, Dept. of English, New York University

Prof. Bell I. Wiley, Dept. of History, Emory University

FELLOWSHIPS, FF-1

The final group of scholars from Western Europe under FF-1 initiated their Fellowships during 1965-66, and of that group, four have had their Fellowships renewed for the academic year 1966-67. With those four renewals, the total funds ($1,200,000.00) allocated for Fellowships by FF-1 will have been spent, with a total of 109 Fellowships awarded (97 for regular Fellowships for one academic year or more, and 12 for Senior Fellowships, i.e. guest invitations to senior scholars to visit the U.S. for periods of two to four months each).

The fields of interest represented among those 109 Fellowships have been varied, with American Literature and American History particularly and understandably preponderant, since it is through those two subjects that the great majority of students and scholars approach American Civilization. The breakdown by field is as follows:

<table><tr><td>American Literature</td><td>44</td></tr><tr><td>American History</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>American Government</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>American Geography</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>American Economy</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>American Social Structure</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>American Philosophy</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>American Law</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>American Art</td><td>3</td></tr></table>

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Mr. Shepard Stone

the Ford Foundation. Additional examples could be given this year of scholarly
publications, promotions, and additional American Studies courses being taught in
European universities--all directly attributable to the ACLS Fellowship appoint-
ments. One can summarize, however, by stating that all but two Fellows have re-
turned to teaching posts in Europe (one Swede has left his university to join the
Swedish foreign service, and one German is still residing in the United States,
having married an American professor at Columbia University). The great majority
have joined the American Studies Associations in those countries where such
societies exist, and have also joined the European Association for American
Studies.

In a previous annual report to the Ford Foundation, I reported that a rather
large percentage of the Fellows were offered permanent appointments in the U.S.
by American universities, which was a pleasing reflection of the quality of the
candidates selected for the Fellowships. This Council's pleasure at such evidence
was matched by its pleasure that all such offers were rejected by the Fellows,
who felt committed to return to their own countries. As a result of the scholar-
ly contacts the Fellows were able to make in the United States during the course
of their Fellowships, however, an increasing number of former Fellows are now ac-
cepting invitations to return to the United States as guest professors for one
semester or for summer schools. The ACLS warmly welcomes this development, di-
rectly attributable to the Fellowship program. Quite apart from the benefit
American universities derive from visiting foreign professors, specialists abroad
in American Studies have a deep and continuing need to revisit the United States
periodically. Through the contacts which many of them have established in the
U.S. during their initial ACLS-sponsored visit to this country, their commitment
to American Studies is strengthened and deepened, and the means established of
undertaking the needed subsequent visits. Such developments in no way lessen,

Mr. Shepard Stone

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but in fact increase, the justification for continuing the ACLS Fellowship Pro-
gram opportunities making possible the initial and crucial period of one year of
advanced research in the United States by aspiring foreign specialists in
American Studies.

FELLOWSHIPS, FF-2

During the year under review, the ACLS announced competitions for fellow-
ships, to be initiated during the twelve month period beginning July 1, 1966, in
Western Europe and Japan, through use of funds supplied by the Ford Foundation in
its December, 1964, grant to the ACLS, and in Australia and New Zealand through
funds ($160,000.00) supplied by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for a three-
year period. Lists of the 41 candidates and five Senior Fellows who have re-
ceived Fellowships for 1966-67 are enclosed as Attachment 1 and Attachment 2.

Japan

As reported to the Foundation last year, the ACLS was very pleased with the
number and quality of candidates and the diversity of fields and institutions
represented in the first year of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship competition
in Japan. Initial screening of the applications was undertaken by Japanese
scholars of repute in the fields of study represented. Candidates approved by
those Screening Consultants were then personally interviewed by R.W. Downar
during the month of October, 1965. Final screening and selection was undertaken
by the ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee in December, 1965, with nine
Fellowships awarded and two Senior Scholar invitations issued.

In the Fellowship competition, care was exercised to insure that candidates
from the University of Tokyo were not inordinately successful--a charge often
leveled by Japanese scholars against other educational competitions held in Japan.
Although five of the nine successful candidates were from the Tokyo area, none
came from the University of Tokyo itself.

Mr. <u>Shepard Stone</u>

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The ACLS decided not to make a fluent command of English a requirement for
candidates. Selection was therefore made without regard to language ability.
Four of the nine successful candidates were found to have too limited a command
of English to derive full benefit from their Fellowships. Those four were there-
fore brought by the ACLS to the English Language Institute of the University of
Hawaii for a three-month course of intensive language instruction during the
summer of 1966 immediately prior to the initiation of their studies at the main-
land universities where they had been affiliated. At the time of the writing of
this report, those four scholars, with their dependents, are studying at the
University of Hawaii. The results of this experiment in selecting candidates
purely on professional grounds, and then providing them with a summer of inten-
sive language preparation, if needed, will be reported in next year's report to
the Foundation.

The deadline for submission of applications from Japan for fellowships to be initiated in 1967 was July 1, 1966. Once again, the number of candidates and the variety of fields and institutions represented have been most heartening.

There were 102 candidates, with the following fields of study represented: art history (2), economics (14), geography (3), history (10), law and government (18), literature (45), philosophy (3), and sociology (7). Screening of the candidates is now under way, and selection will be announced in December, 1966. A comparison of the 1966 and 1967 candidates is given in Attachment 3.

<u>Europe</u>

During the academic year 1965-66, 33 Fellows (including 11 renewals from 1964-65) and 4 Senior Fellows, as reported in last year's report, were in the United States with American Studies Fellowships.

In the competition held during the past year for Fellowships to be initiated
during the academic year 1966-67, there were 189 candidates. A breakdown by

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country and field of study is given in Attachment 4. A total of 28 Fellowships (including 4 renewals from 1965-66) and 3 Senior Fellow grants were awarded, as given in Attachments 1 and 2. In last year's report, I wrote that the ACLS was considering setting up a separate screening committee for the candidates from Spain, Portugal, and Greece in order that those candidates might not have to compete so directly with the normally better qualified candidates from northern Europe. This idea was abandoned when so few candidates from those countries (five from Spain, one each from Portugal and Greece), with the barest minimum of qualifications, bothered to apply. The candidates were therefore submitted to the regular screening committees, with the request that they be given particular consideration. In consequence, one candidate from Spain and one from Portugal were approved for Fellowships--and both withdrew. An obvious conclusion might be that the basic educational systems in those countries may need some fundamental change before scholars in any numbers begin to appear interested in such arcane subjects as American Studies.

With the exception of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, and Ireland, the quality and number of candidates from the other nations of Western Europe continues to be good, with encouraging signs of increased interest in the United States noticeable in countries such as Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgium, which three years ago might have been classified with Spain and Portugal in so far as interest in American Studies was concerned.

## Republic of China

The ACLS plans to extend its American Studies Fellowship Program to the Republic of China. Discussions are now under way with people in Taiwan, and it is expected that a competition will shortly be announced for Fellowships to be initiated in 1967. It is foreseen that at least during the initial period, no more than one or two Fellowships will be awarded in a given year. Financial support for the grants will be drawn from FF-2 funds.

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INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS, FF-1

During the five years in which the FF-1 grant was in operation, a total of $990,000.00 was available to the ACLS for institutional grants and special projects in Western Europe. Those funds have now been committed as follows:

<table><thead><tr><th>Institution</th><th>Teaching Posts</th><th>Library Grants</th><th>Other</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Aberystwyth Univ.</td><td>$ 16,500.00</td><td>$ 3,000.00</td><td></td><td>$ 19,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Belfast Queen's Univ.</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td></td><td>18,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Belgium Royal Library</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Bergen University</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Berlin Free Univ.</td><td></td><td></td><td>$ 5,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Bern University</td><td>8,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td></td><td>13,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Univ.</td><td></td><td>10,000.00</td><td></td><td>10,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>British A.S. Assoc.</td><td></td><td></td><td>10,000.00</td><td>10,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Cambridge University</td><td>42,000.00</td><td></td><td></td><td>42,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Clermont University</td><td></td><td>1,500.00</td><td></td><td>1,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Copenhagen University</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Dijon University</td><td></td><td>1,296.22</td><td></td><td>1,296.22</td></tr><tr><td>East Anglia Univ.</td><td>16,500.00</td><td></td><td></td><td>16,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Edinburgh University</td><td>16,500.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td></td><td>19,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Essex University</td><td></td><td>7,500.00</td><td></td><td>7,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>European A.S. Assoc.</td><td></td><td></td><td>15,008.38</td><td>15,008.38</td></tr><tr><td>Exeter University</td><td>16,500.00</td><td></td><td></td><td>16,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Göttingen University</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td><td></td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Grenoble University</td><td></td><td>4,000.00</td><td></td><td>4,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Hull University</td><td>42,000.00</td><td>14,000.00</td><td></td><td>56,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Innsbruck University</td><td></td><td>1,000.00</td><td></td><td>1,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Keele University</td><td>22,400.00</td><td>16,600.00</td><td></td><td>39,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Leeds University</td><td></td><td>25,000.00</td><td></td><td>25,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Leicester Univ.</td><td></td><td>8,400.00</td><td></td><td>8,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>Leiden University</td><td></td><td>7,500.00</td><td></td><td>7,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Liverpool Univ.</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td></td><td>26,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>London S.E. & P.S.</td><td>49,766.02</td><td></td><td></td><td>49,766.02</td></tr><tr><td>Lund University</td><td></td><td>10,570.00</td><td></td><td>10,570.00</td></tr><tr><td>Lyon University</td><td></td><td>2,000.00</td><td></td><td>2,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Malta University</td><td></td><td>612.95</td><td></td><td>612.95</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester Pub. Lib.</td><td></td><td>25,000.00</td><td></td><td>25,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester Univ.</td><td>19,700.00</td><td>50,000.00</td><td></td><td>69,700.00</td></tr><tr><td>Milan University</td><td></td><td>4,000.00</td><td></td><td>4,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Munich University</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>23,000.00</td><td></td><td>41,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Münster University</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Nijmegen University</td><td></td><td>3,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Nordic A.S. Assoc.</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td><td></td><td>15,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Nottingham Univ.</td><td></td><td>12,000.00</td><td></td><td>12,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Oslo University</td><td>27,500.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>39,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Padova University</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>20,152.63</td></tr><tr><td>Paris University</td><td>20,152.63</td><td></td><td></td><td>19,680.50</td></tr><tr><td>Pisa University</td><td>12,112.50</td><td>7,568.00</td><td></td><td>18,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Reading University</td><td>18,000.00</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table><thead><tr><th>Institution</th><th>Teaching Posts</th><th>Library Grants</th><th>Other</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Rome A.S. Center</td><td></td><td>$ 10,000.00</td><td>$30,000.00</td><td>$ 40,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Sheffield University</td><td>$ 14,000.00</td><td>8,000.00</td><td></td><td>22,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Southampton Univ.</td><td>16,500.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td></td><td>19,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Stockholm Royal Lib.</td><td></td><td>10,413.50</td><td></td><td>10,413.50</td></tr><tr><td>Strasbourg Univ.</td><td></td><td>1,000.00</td><td></td><td>1,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Sussex University</td><td></td><td>10,000.00</td><td></td><td>10,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Swansea University</td><td></td><td>3,000.00</td><td></td><td>3,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Torino Politecnico</td><td></td><td>2,500.00</td><td></td><td>2,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Tübingen Univ.</td><td></td><td>6,000.00</td><td></td><td>6,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Uppsala University</td><td>75,000.00</td><td>15,000.00</td><td></td><td>90,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Utrecht University</td><td>42,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td></td><td>45,000.00</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td>TOTALS</td><td>$526,131.15</td><td>$393,860.47</td><td>$70,008.38</td><td>$990,000.00</td></tr></tfoot></table>

In contrast with the Fellowship Program where the ACLS takes an initiative in urging the submission of applications, institutional grants have been made only in response to requests for assistance. This policy has helped to insure effective impact of the grants and some guarantee that the receiving institutions' interest in American Studies will continue upon the termination of ACLS help.

The teaching post grants have been made for periods of two to five years. Consequently, disbursements have not all been completed nor have the grants all terminated. In every case, however, where the grant has terminated, the receiving institution has continued under its own budget the post initiated with FF-1 funds. In some cases the post has even been elevated (as from a Lectureship to a Professorship) when the ACLS grant terminated. The posts established include Lectureships, Assistant Professorships, and Professorships in American Literature, American History, American Government, American Art History, American Labor History, American Economic History, and American Economic Geography.

The library grants have been made in all fields of American Studies, and have largely been made on a matching basis. In some cases, as at the University of Leiden, an ACLS library grant has had a direct influence in leading the University to initiate an American Studies Professorship completely under its own budget. "Other" grants included support of conferences and the preparation of

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ADMINISTRATION

The ACLS American Studies Program was administered during the year under
review by R.W. Downar assisted by Mrs. Ella M. Decker, with regular support on
all financial matters from the ACLS Comptroller's office. The ACLS Comptroller
has made a financial report to the Foundation on receipts, disbursements, and
commitments during the twelve month period ending June 30, 1966. A copy of that
report is enclosed as Attachment 5.

A tragic loss was suffered through the death of Mrs. Decker on June 23, 1966, while she was at the University of Hawaii receiving the first group of Japanese Fellows. She has been replaced by Miss Ruth Craven.

I hope the information contained in this report will help assure you of the
important and widespread encouragement being given American Studies abroad through
the Foundation's most generous assistance, and that you will let me know if
there is any additional information with which we might supply you.

RWD:rc

Attachments:

1) American Studies Fellows 1966-67

2) American Studies Senior Fellows 1966-67

3) Japan: Comparison of 1966 and 1967 Candidates

4) Europe: Comparison of 1966 and 1967 Candidates

5) Financial Report

Attachment 3

ACLS American Studies Fellowship Program

JAPAN

A Comparison of the 1966 and 1967 Competitions

<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">University</th><th colspan="2">1966</th><th colspan="2">1967</th></tr><tr><th>Candidates</th><th>Totals</th><th>Candidates</th><th>Totals</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">Hokkaido</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">North Honshu</td></tr><tr><td>Akita University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Fukushima University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Miyagi Gakuin College</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Tohoku University</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">Central Honshu</td></tr><tr><td>Aichi Gakugei University</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Aichi Women's College</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Daido Technical College</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Gifu University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Kanagawa University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Meijo University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Nagoya Inst. of Tech.</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Nagoya University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Nanzan University</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Niigata University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Shizuoka University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Toyama University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Yamanashi Women's College</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Yokohama Nat'l University</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;">Tokyo Area</td></tr><tr><td>Aoyama Gakuin University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Chiba University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Chuo University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Gakushuin University</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Gunma University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Hitotsubashi University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Hosei University</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th>University</th><th>1966 Candidates</th><th>Totals</th><th>1967 Candidates</th><th>Totals</th></tr></thead></table>

Tokyo Area - continued

<table><tbody><tr><td>Intern. Christian University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kanazawa University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Keio University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Meiji University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Meiji Gakuin University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nat'l Mus. of Western Art</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nihon University</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nihon Women's University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ochanomizu Women's University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rikkyo University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rissho University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Saitama University</td><td>3</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Seikei University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sophia University</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>4</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tamagawa University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo Metropolitan University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo University of Education</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo University</td><td>5</td><td></td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tsuda College</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Waseda University</td><td>2</td><td>41</td><td>3</td><td>44</td></tr></tbody></table>

South Honshu

<table><tbody><tr><td>Doshisha University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hiroshima Agric. College</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hiroshima University</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kanto Gakuin University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kobe University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kobe University of Commerce</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kobe Univ. of For. Studies</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Konan University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kwansei Gakuin University</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kyoto University</td><td>7</td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Okayama University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Osaka City University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Osaka University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Otani University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ryukoku University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Shimane University</td><td>2</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Shoin University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tenri University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Yamaguchi University</td><td>1</td><td>29</td><td>0</td><td>30</td></tr></tbody></table>

Shikoku

<table><tbody><tr><td>Ehime University</td><td>1</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kagawa University</td><td>0</td><td></td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokushima University</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>4</td></tr></tbody></table>

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American Studies - F.F.-1

Disbursements of Fellowships

July 1, 1965 - June 30, 1966

<table><thead><tr><th>Fellow</th><th>Amount of Grant</th><th>Paid Prior to 6/30/65</th><th>Paid 7/1/65-6/30/66</th><th>Committed Balance 6/30/66</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>David K. Adams</td><td>$ 12,344.45</td><td>$ -0-</td><td>$ 12,042.47</td><td>$ 301.98</td></tr><tr><td>Rolando Anzilotti</td><td>14,302.85</td><td>10,837.07</td><td>3,465.78</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Alexander Barbrook</td><td>11,196.66</td><td>10,069.86</td><td>1,126.80</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Hakan A. Berggren</td><td>7,664.08</td><td>5,001.76</td><td>2,662.32</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Carla Bianco di Fazio</td><td>9,730.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>9,249.54</td><td>480.46</td></tr><tr><td>Max Boerlin</td><td>17,645.28</td><td>17,413.06</td><td>232.22</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Peter J. G. Böhm</td><td>15,710.82</td><td>9,403.92</td><td>6,306.90</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Malcolm S. Bradbury</td><td>10,240.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>10,223.73</td><td>16.27</td></tr><tr><td>Ursula Brumm</td><td>2,201.12</td><td>-0-</td><td>2,201.12</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Lucius C. Caflisch</td><td>9,657.82</td><td>7,642.27</td><td>2,015.55</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Martin Christadler</td><td>8,014.45</td><td>6,241.51</td><td>1,772.94</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Ronald U. Cooke</td><td>7,090.96</td><td>5,708.91</td><td>1,382.05</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Dick H. J. de Jongh</td><td>10,716.97</td><td>5,843.53</td><td>4,873.44</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>K. Michael Drake</td><td>8,615.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,934.64</td><td>680.36</td></tr><tr><td>Henrik Enander</td><td>15,619.17</td><td>9,415.57</td><td>6,203.60</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Jacqueline M. A. Faure</td><td>16,413.52</td><td>14,041.21</td><td>2,372.31</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Rose Giorgi</td><td>7,006.28</td><td>5,797.52</td><td>1,208.76</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Harold Haefner</td><td>18,250.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>10,623.66</td><td>7,626.34</td></tr><tr><td>Norman D. Harper</td><td>3,522.59</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,522.59</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Wolfgang J. Helbich</td><td>21,750.00</td><td>8,971.52</td><td>12,693.08</td><td>85.40</td></tr><tr><td>Niels Eilschou Holm</td><td>15,366.11</td><td>14,573.01</td><td>793.10</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Edmond Simon Ions</td><td>11,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>10,357.35</td><td>642.65</td></tr><tr><td>John Edward Jones</td><td>12,660.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>12,514.30</td><td>145.70</td></tr><tr><td>Max Kaase</td><td>9,750.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>9,488.57</td><td>261.43</td></tr><tr><td>Karl Heinz Kunert</td><td>15,635.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>15,550.08</td><td>84.92</td></tr><tr><td>Gertrud Lenzer-Marcus</td><td>11,163.81</td><td>5,965.04</td><td>5,198.77</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Jean-Pierre Leyvraz</td><td>21,515.44</td><td>10,307.54</td><td>11,207.90</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Brita Lindberg-Seyersted</td><td>15,220.00</td><td>7,223.18</td><td>7,988.13</td><td>8.69</td></tr><tr><td>Franz Link</td><td>3,506.85</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,506.85</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Antonio Lopez-Pina</td><td>16,950.00</td><td>7,248.84</td><td>9,675.88</td><td>25.28</td></tr><tr><td>Klaus Lubbers</td><td>10,950.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>10,307.87</td><td>642.13</td></tr><tr><td>Duncan J. MacLeod</td><td>11,005.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,707.60</td><td>3,297.40</td></tr><tr><td>Günter Moltmann</td><td>11,560.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>11,540.98</td><td>19.02</td></tr><tr><td>Geoffrey Moore</td><td>4,230.00</td><td>4,217.55</td><td>12.45</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>David P. Morse</td><td>10,854.65</td><td>8,230.22</td><td>2,624.43</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Eric Mottram</td><td>6,571.25</td><td>-0-</td><td>6,571.25</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Bo Olstrom</td><td>20,660.00</td><td>11,613.82</td><td>9,009.96</td><td>36.22</td></tr><tr><td>Orm Harald Øverland</td><td>7,090.86</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,090.86</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Marcello Pagnini</td><td>3,937.80</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,937.80</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Jürgen Paul</td><td>11,885.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>6,862.72</td><td>5,022.28</td></tr><tr><td>Alessandro De Giovanni Pizzorno</td><td>11,421.60</td><td>8,632.58</td><td>2,789.02</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Klaus Poenicke</td><td>15,290.59</td><td>8,886.35</td><td>6,404.24</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Subtotals</td><td>$485,915.98</td><td>$203,285.84</td><td>$263,253.61</td><td>$19,376.53</td></tr></tbody></table>

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American Studies - F.F.-1

Disbursements of Grants to Institutions

July 1, 1965 - June 30, 1966

<table><thead><tr><th>Institutions</th><th>Amount of<br>Grant</th><th>Paid<br>Prior to<br>6/30/65</th><th>Paid<br>7/1/65-6/30/66</th><th>Committed<br>Balance<br>6/30/66</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>University College of Wales, Aberystwyth</td><td>$ 19,500.00</td><td>$ 14,000.00</td><td>$ 5,500.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>The Queen's University Belfast</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>13,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Birmingham</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>British Association for American Studies</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>1,600.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge</td><td>42,000.00</td><td>16,800.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>16,800.00</td></tr><tr><td>Université de Dijon</td><td>1,296.22</td><td>-0-</td><td>1,296.22</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of East Anglia</td><td>16,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>-0-</td><td>16,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Edinburgh</td><td>19,500.00</td><td>14,000.00</td><td>5,500.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Essex</td><td>7,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>European Association for American Studies - Conference at Aarhus</td><td>1,008.38</td><td>-0-</td><td>1,008.38</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Exeter</td><td>16,500.00</td><td>5,500.00</td><td>5,500.00</td><td>5,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Göttingen</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>-0-</td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Hull</td><td>56,000.00</td><td>39,200.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>8,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Keele</td><td>39,000.00</td><td>22,200.00</td><td>5,600.00</td><td>11,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leeds</td><td>25,000.00</td><td>20,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leicester</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>2,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leiden</td><td>7,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>1,500.00</td><td>6,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>The University of Liverpool</td><td>26,400.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>9,000.00</td><td>14,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>London School of Economics &amp; Political Science - History</td><td>16,800.00</td><td>4,200.00</td><td>4,200.00</td><td>8,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>London School of Economics &amp; Political Science - Geography</td><td>21,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>4,200.00</td><td>16,800.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Lund</td><td>3,070.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,070.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>The Manchester Public Libraries</td><td>25,000.00</td><td>20,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Università degli Studi Milano</td><td>4,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>1,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Amerika-Institut, University of Munich</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>12,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Universität München</td><td>26,000.00</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>8,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>The University of Münster</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>10,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Nijmegen</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>625.00</td><td>2,375.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Nottingham</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>5,845.00</td><td>4,200.00</td><td>4,955.00</td></tr><tr><td>Subtotals</td><td>$487,974.60</td><td>$230,145.00</td><td>$114,599.60</td><td>$143,230.00</td></tr></tbody></table>

July 11, 1966

Dear Dick:

I shall be happy to accept your kind invitation to serve again on the ACLS American Studies Program for next year. I am delighted that interest in applications from the Far East continues.

I should think that Professor Ohashi would make an admirable screening consultant in literature if his rank is sufficient to satisfy the rank-conscious Japanese. When I knew him in Tokyo in 1963 he was only an assistant professor. Ohashi did his American year at Tulane University, is a graduate of Tohoku (Sendai University) and is one of the rare examples of a man being taken on to the Tokyo faculty without having been a student there. When I knew him he was working on American novelists of the 1930's and so he should not be stuffy in his evaluations of applications.

Professor Karita of Sophia University is, however, a full professor and might possibly carry more weight at this early stage of our grants than Ohashi. He studied with Perry Miller at Harvard in 1955-56 and is a close friend of Professor Nakanishi, of Kyoto, and of Professor Ebiike, of Sendai. He was the one who invited me to address the annual meeting of the American Literature Society of Japan and was most friendly to me during my stay in his country. He is formerly chairman of the American Literature Society and is a translator of Henry Adams into Japanese. At the moment of my visit he was working on Leo Stein so that he too is caught in no nineteenth-century rut.

The other men may be good but I am not so fully informed about them.

I was deeply saddened to hear of Mrs. Decker's death. She was so remarkably fine a woman that it will be difficult to be unable to depend upon her help and friendship.

NHP/s

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July 8, 1966

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
231, Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Norman:

Our Board of Directors at its last meeting expressed its appreciation for all your interest and assistance in the ACLS American Studies Program during the past year, and it hopes that you would continue to serve on that Program's Advisory Committee for the coming academic year.

The composition of the Committee will remain the same with the exception of John Hope Franklin who is replaced by Bell Wiley of Emory University, and Bob Spiller who is replaced by William M. Gibson of New York University.

The competition for 1967 fellowships in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand closed this past weekend. Twenty candidates applied from Australia and New Zealand, compared to seventeen last year. From Japan there were 120 candidates compared to ninety-six last year. (Incidentally, it is probable that we shall extend the Pacific competition to include Taiwan in 1968).

Last year the Japanese scholar we used as the screening consultant in literature was Professor Norihiro Nabeshima of Ochanomizu University. For this year's screening I would like to appoint someone else. Have you any suggestions? What would you think of Professor Kenzaburo Ohashi of Tokyo University whom so many of my Japanese acquaintances have suggested? Other names that occur to me are Takashi Sugiki at Rikkyo, Motoshi Karita at Sophia University, Hideo Nakanishi at Waseda, and Rikutaro Fukuda at the Tokyo University of Education. I would very much appreciate your comments on any of these who may be known to you, or your suggestion of any other scholars that might be even more appropriate.

I must conclude on a sad note. Mrs. Decker went to Honolulu for a week last month to help receive and settle the four Japanese Fellows who are studying English at the University of Hawaii this summer before taking up their research on the mainland. While there she died of a cerebral hemorrhage. We shall all sorely miss her.

Richard W. Downar
Director
American Studies Program

RWD:mk

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Minutes

1965-2 Meeting, Dec. 10, 1965

11th Floor Conference Lounge

The ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee met on December 10, 1965, at
9:30 A.M. Members present were:

Professor John D. Goheen, Stanford University

Professor Robert E. Spiller, University of Pennsylvania

Members absent were:

Professor John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago

Staff members present were Mr. Richard W. Downar and Mrs. Ella M. Decker.

# I. Institutional Grants

## A. Europe

The Committee reviewed the requests submitted by European educational institutions, and recommend the following action:

1. Approval of the request of the University of Munich to use the $8,000 previously allocated for costs of the ACLS supported Chair in American Literature for the purchase of library materials by the University's American Institute. The funds, intended for the third and final year of ACLS support of the Chair in American Literature, were no longer needed since complete costs of the Chair had been assumed by the University with the academic year 1965-66.

2. Rejection of the request of the Bauhütte der Akademie of Switzerland for financial assistance in support of a proposed eleven-day seminar on American Philosophy to be held in July, 1966.

3. Approval of a matching grant of $25,000.00 to the University of Cologne for the purchase of library materials in the field of American History.

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4. Approval of a grant of $2,000.00 to the University of Dijon for the purchase of library materials in American Literature and Civilization.

5. Approval of a matching grant of up to $7,500.00 to the University of Essex for the purchase of microfilm copies of the *New York Times*.

6. Approval of a matching grant of $5,000.00 to the University of Göttingen for the purchase of nineteenth-century American periodicals.

7. Approval of a grant to the University of Padova of $5,000.00 for the purchase of library materials in American Constitutional History and American Public Law, and of $5,000.00 to be used by the University for research fellowship assistance to graduate students at the University of Padova in the fields of American History or American Government.

8. Approval of a grant of up to $1,000.00 to assist outstanding students in the fields of American Studies at the University of Pisa, particularly students of American Art History and American Architecture, making guided tours of the museums of the United States.

9. Approval of a grant of $10,000.00 to the University of Sussex for the purchase of American periodicals for the period from approximately 1870 to 1940.

## B. Western Pacific

1. Approval of a matching grant of $25,000.00 to the University of Adelaide for the purchase of library materials in the fields of American History, American Literature, and American Government.

2. Rejection of the request from the University of Adelaide at Bedford Park (Flinders University of South Australia) for financial assistance toward the establishment of a Professorship in American Studies.

3. Approval of a matching grant of up to $16,600.00 to the University of Auckland for the purchase of library materials in American Studies.

4. Rejection of the request of the School of General Studies of the Australian National University for financial assistance for library expansion in branches of American Studies.

5. Approval of a grant of up to $1,000.00 to the Australian-New Zealand American Studies Society to be used to assist scholars from New Zealand in attending the 1966 ANZASS conference in Canberra.

6. Rejection of the request of the University of New England for financial assistance for library expansion in branches of American Studies.

7. Rejection of the request of the University of Otago for financial assistance for library expansion in the field of American Literature.

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8. Approval of a matching grant of up to $25,000.00 to the University of Sydney for library expansion in the fields of American Economics and Economic History, American Government, American History, and American Literature.

9. Approval of a grant of $10,000.00 and a matching grant of up to an additional $5,000.00 to the Victoria University of Wellington for the purchase of microfilmed copies of the *New York Times* and the *Congressional Record*.

10. Approval of a grant of $1,732.00 to the University of Western Australia for the purchase of recordings and scores of American music.

## II. Australia and New Zealand Fellowship Candidates

The Committee reviewed the applications, supporting letters of reference, and R. W. Downar interview notes on fourteen fellowship candidates from Australia and New Zealand. The Committee recommended the awarding of fellowships to the following candidates, with U. S. institutional affiliation as indicated.

### A. Priority Candidates

1. Dr. Enid Campbell, Associate Professor in Legal History, University of Sydney. University of Wisconsin.

2. Mr. John H. Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New England, Pennsylvania State University.

3. Mr. Fred H. Langman, Senior Lecturer in English, Australian National University. Yale University.

4. Mr. Kenneth C. T. Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney. Harvard University.

### B. Alternate Candidates

1. Mr. Charles D. Doyle, Lecturer in English, University of Auckland. State University of New York, Buffalo.

## III. Japan Fellowship Candidates

The Committee reviewed the applications, supporting letters of reference, screening consultant evaluations, and R. W. Downar interview notes on thirty-six candidates from Japan who had favorably passed the initial and intermediate screening procedures. The Committee recommended the awarding of ACLS International American Studies Fellowships to the following candidates, with U.S. institutional affiliation as indicated.

### A. Priority Candidates

1. Dr. Hitoshi Abe, Instructor in Political Science, Seikei University, Tokyo. Harvard University.

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2. Dr. Koji Abe, Professor of Law, Okayama University. University of California, Los Angeles.

3. Mr. Keiichi Harada, Assistant Professor of American Literature, Chiba University. Indiana University.

4. Mr. Iwao Iwamoto, Assistant Professor of English, Chuo University, Tokyo. Wesleyan University.

5. Mr. Takeshi Kurashi, Professor of English, Waseda University, Tokyo. Columbia University.

6. Mr. Tadashi Motohashi, Professor of the History of International Politics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo. Georgetown University.

7. Mr. Michio Muramatsu, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Kyoto University. University of California, Berkeley.

8. Mr. Kichinosuke Ohashi, Professor of American Literature, Keio University, Tokyo. University of Chicago.

9. Mr. Mitsukuni Yasaki, Professor of Legal Philosophy and History of Legal Thought, Osaka University. Columbia University.

B. Alternate Candidates (in order of priority).

1. Mr. Tadakatsu Inoue, Professor of Business History, Kobe University. Northwestern University.

2. Mr. Tsugio Aoki, Assistant Professor of American Literature, Kyoto University. Rutgers University and University of California, Berkeley.

3. Mrs. Aiko Morooka, Assistant Professor of American Literature, Japan Women's University. Radcliffe College and University of Pennsylvania.

The meeting adjourned at 4:00 P.M.

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Minutes

1966-1 Meeting, April 29, 1966

9th Floor Conference Lounge

The ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee met on April 29, 1966, at

9:30 a.m. Members present were:

Members absent were:

I. Institutional Grants

The Committee reviewed the requests submitted by foreign educational institutions and recommended the following action:

A. Western Pacific

1. Approval of a grant to the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, providing a contribution of $50,000.00, over a period of five years, toward the costs of a Chair in American Studies, and an offer to match, up to a total of $25,000.00, University allocations for the purchase of library materials in support of the proposed Chair.

B. Europe

1. Approval of a grant to the University of Bergen, Norway, providing a contribution of $19,800.00, over a period of three years, toward the costs of an Associate Professorship in American Literature.

2. Approval of a grant to the University of Caen, France, offering to match, up to a total of $5,000.00, University allocations for the purchase of library materials in American Literature and Civilization.

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3. Approval of a grant to the University of K\Oln, Germany, offering to match, up to a total of $25,000.00, University allocations for the purchase of library materials in American Literature.

4. Rejection of the request of the University of Essex, England, for financial assistance in the establishment of a Lectureship in American History.

5. Approval of a grant to the European Association for American Studies in the amount of $10,000.00 in support of activities and administrative costs of the Association.

6. Approval of a grant to the University of Nice, France, offering to match, up to a total of $5,000.00, University allocations for the purchase of library materials in American Literature and Civilization.

7. Approval of a grant to the American Institute of the University of Oslo, Norway, offering to match, up to a total of $5,000.00, Institute allocations for the purchase of the microfilm series American Culture.

8. Approval of a grant to the Collège Littéraire Universitaire de Pau, France, offering to match, up to a total of $5,000.00, University allocations for the purchase of library materials in American Studies.

9. Rejection of the request of the University of Sussex, England, for financial assistance in the establishment of a Lectureship in American Social History.

10. Approval of a grant to the University of Warwick, England, providing a contribution of $25,500.00, over a period of three years, toward the costs of a Lectureship in the History of American Labor, and $5,000.00 for the purchase of library materials in the support of that post.

## II. Fellowship Renewal Requests, 1965-66 Fellows

The Committee recommended approval of the fellowship renewal requests submitted by the following recipients of 1965-66 American Studies Fellowships:

<table><thead><tr><td></td><td>Name</td><td>Field</td><td>European Affiliation</td><td>American Affiliation</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1.</td><td>Harold Haefner</td><td>Geography</td><td>University of Zurich</td><td>UCLA</td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>Duncan MacLeod</td><td>History</td><td>Cambridge University</td><td>Princeton</td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>Jürgen Paul</td><td>Art</td><td>University of K\Oln</td><td>Columbia</td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>Michael Weaver</td><td>Literature</td><td>Cambridge University</td><td>Yale</td></tr></tbody></table>

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### III. European Candidates for 1966-67 American Studies Fellowships

The Committee reviewed the applications, supporting letters of reference, screening consultant evaluations, and R. W. Downar interview notes of the European fellowship candidates favorably recommended to the Advisory Committee by the ACLS European Screening Committees. The Committee recommended the awarding of ACLS American Studies Fellowships to the following candidates:

<table><thead><tr><td>Name</td><td>University</td><td>Position</td><td>Field of Study</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1. Aldo Celli</td><td>Univ. of Florence</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>2. Hansjürgen Daheim</td><td>Univ. of Köln</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Sociology</td></tr><tr><td>3. Robert Gottwald</td><td>Univ. of Berlin</td><td>Instructor</td><td>History</td></tr><tr><td>4. Kenneth Graham</td><td>Univ. of Southampton</td><td>Lecturer</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>5. C. Tomas Hammar</td><td>Univ. of Stockholm</td><td>Lecturer</td><td>Government</td></tr><tr><td>6. Lars-Erik Hedin</td><td>Univ. of Lund</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Economics</td></tr><tr><td>7. Horst Helle</td><td>Univ. of Hamburg</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Sociology</td></tr><tr><td>8. Goran Hermeren</td><td>Univ. of Lund</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Philosophy</td></tr><tr><td>9. Erhard Kantzenbach</td><td>Univ. of Hamburg</td><td>Asst. Prof.</td><td>Economics</td></tr><tr><td>10. Yves Leloup</td><td>Univ. of Coimbra</td><td>Professor</td><td>Geography</td></tr><tr><td>11. Olavi Niitamo</td><td>Univ. of Helsinki</td><td>Professor</td><td>Economics</td></tr><tr><td>12. Helge Nilsen</td><td>Univ. of Bergen</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>13. Giorgio Piccinato</td><td>Univ. of Rome</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Architecture</td></tr><tr><td>14. Kalevi Rikkinen</td><td>Univ. of Helsinki</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Geography</td></tr><tr><td>15. Robert Silhol</td><td>Univ. of Paris</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>16. Torbjørn Sirevaag</td><td>Univ. of Oslo</td><td>Instructor</td><td>History</td></tr><tr><td>17. Alistair Stead</td><td>Univ. of Leeds</td><td>Lecturer</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>18. Karl Strässer</td><td>Univ. of Bonn</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Geography</td></tr><tr><td>19. Gunther Tichy</td><td>Vienna Econ. Inst.</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Economics</td></tr><tr><td>20. Yola Verhasselt<br>(Approved for grant in 1965; arrival postponed one year)</td><td>Univ. of Brussels</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Geography</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<table><thead><tr><td>Name</td><td>University</td><td>Position</td><td>Field of Study</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>21. Wolfgang Viereck</td><td>Univ. of Hamburg</td><td>Instructor</td><td>Language</td></tr><tr><td>22. Malcolm Warner</td><td>Univ. of Essex</td><td>Lecturer</td><td>Government</td></tr><tr><td>23. Tjebbe Westendorp</td><td>Univ. of Leiden</td><td>Researcher</td><td>Literature</td></tr><tr><td>24. Gwyn Williams</td><td>Univ. of York</td><td>Professor</td><td>History</td></tr><tr><td>25. Bryan Wilson</td><td>Oxford Univ.</td><td>Reader</td><td>Sociology</td></tr></tbody></table>

## IV. Senior Scholar Invitational Grants

The Committee recommended the issuance of invitations to visit the United States for periods of two to three months to the following scholars:

1. Makoto Saito, Professor of American Government, Tokyo University.

2. Max Silberschmidt, Professor of Economic History, University of Zurich, and President, European Association for American Studies.

3. Erwin Stürzl, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Salzburg.

4. Yasuo Suga, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kyoto.

The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

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January 12, 1966

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
231 Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Norman,

As you probably know, Professor Norman Harper of the University of Melbourne has been invited by the ACLS to come to this country for a couple of months to reacquaint himself with the U.S. educational scene.

He is particularly interested in visiting some of our major universities known for work in American Studies. He was last at Yale University in 1951, and wishes to visit New Haven again to see you and some of your colleagues. He will be arriving in New York on the 21st or 22nd of February. I believe he may find it most convenient if he could call upon you during the early part of the week beginning February 28th if you could spare some time to see him. Could you let me know if you will be available then?

Professor Harper will be flying to the U.S. via London, I, myself, will be flying to London on February 20th or 21st, so shall probably miss him, unless we meet at Kennedy or Heathrow airports. Mrs. Decker will be here, however, and will be able to telephone you, on his arrival, to set up, hopefully, a definite appointment.

Thanks again for all your help at the last Advisory Committee meeting. Arrangements have now been concluded for twelve weeks of intensive language instruction in Honolulu for the four Japanese Fellows in need of it, and affiliation for all the new Western Pacific Fellows is proceeding without difficulty. Meanwhile we here at ACLS daily become more disgruntled, harried, and weary with the continuing transportation strike.

RWD/d

15 January 1966

Richard W. Downar, Director
American Studies Program
American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York, N.Y.

Dear Dick,

I hope you will forgive a Saturday morning letter, personalized by my own typing.

We will be very pleased indeed to see Professor Norman Harper when he visits the States, and will be happy to have him stay at Yale for as long as he chooses to. I am sure we can provide a university room for him, and I can certainly see to it that he meets whomever he wants to or who seems appropriate. I cannot recall whether or not I met him in 1951, but it will be a pleasure to do so now. On Monday the 28th I will be pretty well tied up with the memorial meeting being held that night for Randall Jarrell, but from then on there should be no great difficulty. Simply have Mrs Decker call me when his plans are clear. Could you also have her send me his *vita* to help me in laying the right carpet?

The spring schedule begins to crowd me a little, and it would be most helpful if I could know the precise dates of our spring meeting. I shall be in England and Switzerland from March 16th until April 5th, but I must reply to several invitations for me to lecture here and there during other periods. I was, as I told you, much impressed by the way you and Mrs Decker had laid on our meeting last time, as well as by the high seriousness with which the members of the committee went about their work. Our Washington gatherings sometimes frustrate me. I suppose I will see you there on the 4th and 5th, if my wife will let me out of a dance we are scheduled to attend.

Sincerely,

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March 7, 1966

**Memorandum to:** American Studies Advisory Committee

**From:** Ella M. Decker, Secretary, American Studies Program

**Subject:** Meeting of the Advisory Committee

Mr. Downar, who is now in Europe interviewing candidates for 1966-67 ACLS fellowships, has instructed me to call a meeting of the Advisory Committee on *Friday, April 29th*, at 9:30 a.m. here at the ACLS office.

We were unable to find a date for the meeting upon which all members could be present, and April 29th was the only date suitable for seven of the eight Committee members. Professor Franklin, unfortunately, will be absent.

We look forward to seeing you on April 29th.

Dear Professor Pearson,

I assume you will make your own reservation at the Yale Club.
I look forward to seeing you.

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Minutes

ACLS Conference Room, 17 April 1965, 9:00 a.m.

The ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee met on April 17, 1965, with the following members in attendance: Professor James W. Angell, Columbia University; Professor John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago; Professor Robert E. Spiller, University of Pennsylvania; and Professor William Taylor, University of Wisconsin; assisted by ACLS staff members Richard W. Downar and Ella M. Decker. The following action was taken:

I. **European Institutional Grant Requests**

Of the original $990,000.00 Ford Foundation grant for ACLS awards to be allocated to European institutions and organizations for projects in support of American studies, uncommitted funds of $126,374.60 remain available. The Committee recommended approval of twelve grants to ten institutions for a total commitment of $109,000.00, leaving uncommitted a total amount of $17,374.60. The new institutional grants recommended for ACLS approval are listed in **Attachment One**. Requests for assistance received from the Universities of Bristol, Essex, and Exeter were not approved.

II. **Invitational Grants to Senior Fellows**

The Committee recommended the issuance of invitations to the following four professors to visit the United States for two to three months as Senior Fellow guests of the ACLS:

1. Professor Ursula Brumm, Professor of American Civilization, The Free University of Berlin.

2. Professor Norman D. Harper, Professor of American History, University of Melbourne.

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3. Professor Marcello Pagnini, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Florence.

4. Professor Ingrid E. Semmingsen, Professor of American History, University of Oslo.

### III. Prolonged Extensions or Renewals of 1964-65 American Studies Fellowships

Prolonged extension or renewal of grants were recommended for twelve 1964-65 American Studies Fellows as listed on *Attachment Two*.

### IV. 1965-66 American Studies Fellowships

The Committee noted that the European Screening Committees had considered ninety-one candidates for 1965-66 ACLS American Studies Fellowships, of which a total of thirty-nine candidates were approved for interviews and for further consideration by the Advisory Committee. Twenty-two of these candidates, as listed on *Attachment Two*, were recommended for approval to the ACLS for 1965-66 Fellowships. The following seventeen candidates were not approved for the reasons indicated:

1. Eugene Bucher, Privatdozent, Law Institute, University of Zürich; too ill-defined a research topic, but might reapply with clearer research and career plans.

2. Ian A. N. Campbell, Graduate in geography, University of London; no clear need for ACLS fellowship assistance.

3. Pierre M. J. Clement, Directeur d'Etudes de Géographie, Ecole Normale d'Institutrices, Aix-en-Provence; an uninteresting research topic somewhat peripheral to the ACLS program.

4. Armin P. Frank, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in American Literature, University of Frankfurt; withdrew to accept a Harkness Fellowship.

5. John B. Harley, Lecturer in cartographic history, University of Liverpool; no clear need for ACLS fellowship assistance.

6. Judith Janoska, Universitättsdozent in sociology, University of Graz; withdrew to accept teaching appointment at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

7. Erkki I. Karjalainen, Assistentti in geography, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration; research topic peripheral to the ACLS program.

8. Werner S. Link, Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in modern history, University of Marburg; need for research in the U. S. and depth of candidate's interest in American studies questioned.

3.

9. Roger P. Morgan, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex: research and career interests peripheral to ACLS program.

10. José Puente Egido, Professor of International Law, University of La Laguna; research and career interests peripheral to ACLS program.

11. Claude M. Richard, Assistant Agrégé in American Literature, University of Montpellier; withdrew to accept a Harkness Fellowship.

12. Frederick F. Ridley, Lecturer in Government, University of Liverpool; research and career interests peripheral to ACLS program.

13. Franz Schneider, Graduate student in government, University of Munich; research plans too diffuse and ill-organized.

14. John E. Spence, Lecturer in Government, University College of Wales at Swansea; withdrew to accept visiting professorship, UCLA.

15. Gerd Sreen, Referent in Law, Max Planck Institut, Hamburg; career interests peripheral to ACLS program.

16. Malcolm Warner, Lecturer in Government, University of Essex; should complete his unfinished doctoral dissertation before consideration by ACLS.

17. Tjebbe A. Westendorp, Leraar Middelbaar Onderwijsein-Enghshoudnd American Litetature; Delft; insufficiently prepared for advanced research, but should reapply later.

V. <u>Policy Discussions</u>

A. European Fellowship Program

The Committee considered means of increasing the number of successful fellowship candidates from those primarily southern nations in Europe which have been comparatively ill-represented in the final results of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Competitions of the past four years. The Committee recommended that separate European Screening Committees for Northern Europe and for Southern Europe might possibly be established, with final selection of candidates approved for fellowships influenced by the wish to establish an appropriate balance between the two regions.

B. Western Pacific Fellowship Program

The Committee considered procedures for the screening of candidates
from Japan, Australia, and New Zealand in the forthcoming competition for

4.

ACLS American Studies Fellowships for 1966. The Committee recommended
that scholars from Australia and New Zealand be jointly appointed to
screen candidates from both countries. A screening committee for
Japanese candidates was not advised, but the appointment of Japanese
scholars to serve as individual screening consultants was recommended.
The Advisory Committee Meeting was adjourned at 5:35 p.m.

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Meeting of April 17, 1965

## Attachment One

### EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

The Advisory Committee approved utilization of Ford Foundation funds available to the ACLS in support of American Studies, for grants to the following institutions:

#### The Royal Library of Belgium

A grant of $15,000.00 for an expansion of library holdings in the fields of American history and civilization.

#### Center of American Studies, Rome

A contribution, available until July 1, 1968, of $10,000.00 toward the costs of compiling a Union Catalogue of the holdings in American Studies in the major libraries of Florence, with the Catalogue to be integrated with the completed Union Catalogue of similar holdings in the major libraries of Rome.

An offer of a total of $10,000.00, available until July 1, 1968, on the basis of two dollars from ACLS funds to match each dollar from Center funds allocated by the Center to expand the Center's Nelson Gay Library holdings in American history and American literature.

#### University of East Anglia

A grant of $5,500.00 per year for three years to assist the University in establishing a Lectureship in American History.

#### European Association of American Studies

A contribution of $4,000.00 to the Association for the costs in preparing a two volume handbook in American Studies for use in secondary schools and introductory university courses.

A contribution of up to $1,500.00 to the Association to help defray travel costs of returned ACLS American Studies Fellows wishing to attend the EAAS Conference at the University of Aarhus, August, 1965.

American Studies Advisory Committee Minutes
Attachment One

2.

University of Leiden

An offer to match, up to a total of $7,500.00 and until July 1, 1970, University budget allocations for an expansion in the University's library holdings in American history and civilization.

London School of Economics and Political Science

A grant contribution of $4,200.00 per year for five years toward the costs of establishing a Readership in the Economic Geography of North America.

University of Lund

A grant of $3,000.00 to the University's Institute of Art History for the purchase of the 2,500 slide collection of *The Arts of the United States*.

University of Münster

An offer to match, up to a total of $15,000.00 and until July 1, 1968, University allocations for an expansion in the University library holdings in American literature.

University of Nijmegen

An offer to match, up to a total of $3,000.00 and until December 1, 1969, University budget allocations for an expansion in the University library holdings in American literature.

Turin Polytechnic

A grant of $2,500.00 to the Turin Polytechnic Institute of Architectural History for the purchase of books, slides, and periodicals on historical and contemporary architecture of the United States.

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## Minutes

Meeting of April 17, 1965

## Attachment Two

EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIPS - PROLONGED EXTENSIONS, RENEWALS, AND NEW GRANTS, 1965-66

The Committee recommended approval of prolonged extensions or renewals for
1964-65 Fellows, and new grants for 1965-66 candidates, as indicated:

David K. Adams, Lecturer in American History at the University of Keele, England: Executive leadership and formulation of a policy towards Europe during the first administration, 1933-37, of Franklin D. Roosevelt. First semester, George Washington University; second semester, to be arranged.

Carla Bianco di Fazio, Professor of Literature, Liceo José Artigas, Rome, and Assistant at the Institute of Folklore, University of Rome, Italy: Folklore acculturation among certain groups of Italo-Americans. University of Indiana.

Peter J. G. Bohm, *Biträdande Lärare* in economics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden: Aspects on the role of American banking and government in resource allocation. Harvard University (Grant extended to December 15, 1965).

Malcolm S. Bradbury, Lecturer in English (American) Literature at the University of Birmingham, England: American literary expatriates, 1800-1865; American novel, post-1945. Harvard University.

Dick H. J. de Jongh, Graduate student at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: American intuitionistic logic and mathematics. University of Wisconsin (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Keith M. Drake, Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland: Marriage ages of first generation immigrants to the U. S. Affiliation to be arranged.

Henrik Enander, Assistant in History at Stockholm University, Sweden: Anglo-American diplomatic relations during the Civil War. The Johns Hopkins University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Harold Haefner, *Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter* in Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland: High altitude settlement and land utilization of the Pacific Northwest. Affiliation to be arranged.

American Studies Advisory Committee Minutes
Attachment Two

2.

Wolfgang J. Helbich, *Lektor* in History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany: American domestic policy aspects of U.S.-German relations, 1933-41. University of Maryland (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Edmund S. Ions, Lecturer in Politics at the University of York, England: James Bryce as an interpreter of American democracy and institutions. First semester, Columbia University; second semester, to be arranged.

John E. Jones, Lecturer in Painting at the University of Leeds, England: Contemporary American art history. New York University.

Max Kaase, *Wissenschaftlicher Assistent* in Political Science at Mannheim Wirtschaftshochschule, Germany: Primary contacts and mass media influences in recent U. S. presidential elections. University of Michigan.

Karl H. Kunert, *Lehrbeauftragter* in Law at the University of Bonn, Germany: Comparative study of American and Continental laws of evidence. Harvard University.

Gertrud Lenzer, Graduate research scholar in sociology at the University of Munich, Germany: The uses of the concept of democracy in American political sociology and political science. Columbia University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Jean-Pierre Leyvraz, *Privat-docent* in Philosophy at the University of Geneva, Switzerland: American phenomenological research, symbolic logic, and analytic philosophy. Yale University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Brita Lindberg, *Universitetslektor* in American Literature at the University of Uppsala, Sweden: Emily Dickinson, studies in matter and form. Harvard University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Antonio Lopez Pina, Assistant professor in government and constitutional law at the University of Madrid, Spain: Attitudes and behavior of the American voters in the presidential election of 1964. First semester, University of Michigan; second semester, to be arranged (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Klaus Lubbers, *Wissenschaftlicher Assistent* in American Literature, University of Mainz, Germany: The critical reception of Emily Dickinson in America, 1862-1962. Amherst College.

Duncan J. MacLeod, Graduate student, Churchill College, Cambridge University, England: Late 18th-century American racial attitudes and beliefs. Morgan State College.

Guenter E. Moltmann, Professor of History, PHdagogische Hochschule of Bielefeld, and *Lehrbeauftragter* in American History, University of Hamburg, Germany: American-German relations at the time of the mid-19th century revolutions in Europe. University of Chicago.

Eric N. Mottram, Lecturer in American Literature, King's College, University of London, England: Self-conscious relationships between the individual and the community as instanced in American writing. First semester, New York University; second semester, to be arranged.

Attachment Two

3.

Bo Ohlström, *Amanuens* in Sociology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden: The role and influence of American chief editors. Stanford University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Orm H. Øverland, Graduate student at the University of Oslo, Norway: James Fenimore Cooper's *The Prairie*. Yale University.

Jürgen Paul, *Wissenschaftlicher Assistent* in Art History at the University of Cologne, Germany: 19th-century American architectural history and town planning. Columbia University.

Klaus Poenicke, *Akademischer Rat* in American Literature at the Free University of Berlin: The "sublime" in 19th-century American literature. Yale University (Grant extended to March 1, 1966).

Manuel Ramirez Jimenez, Assistant professor in constitutional law at the University of Granada, Spain: American voting behavior. Columbia University.

Per E. Seyersted, Researcher in American Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway: Kate Chopin, her life and her works. Harvard University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Howard R. Temperley, Lecturer in American History and Institutions at the University of Manchester, England: Anglo-American anti-slavery connections, 1833-1868. Brown University.

Per E. Törnqvist, Researcher and Instructor in Comparative Literature at the University of Uppsala, Sweden: Eugene O'Neill's super-naturalism. Yale University.

Yola L. G. Verhasselt, FNRS Aspirant in geography at the University of Brussels, Belgium: A geographical study of the border region between the U. S. and Mexico. Texas Western College.

John D. Walsh, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Cambridge University, England: Revivalism in American religious history. Brown University.

Stig A. Wandén, Graduate student in philosophy at Lund University, Sweden: American pragmatism. Harvard University (Grant extended to December 1, 1965).

Michael L. H. Weaver, Researcher, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, England: The social, intellectual, and aesthetic background of the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Yale University.

Güran V. Widebäck, *Universitetslektor* in business administration at the University of Lund: Budgetary planning in American government and economic institutions. First semester, University of California at Berkeley; second semester, to be arranged.

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February 14, 1966

Memorandum to: ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee

From: Richard W. Downar

We would like to schedule a meeting of the Advisory Committee in April to consider 1) institutional grant requests from Europe, Australia and New Zealand; 2) requests from 1965-66 Fellows for renewal of their Fellowships for 1966-67; and 3) applications from European candidates for 1966-67 Fellowships.

We would like to schedule the meeting for Friday, April 22nd.

If this date is unsuitable for some of you, alternative dates would be

Saturday, April 23rd, and Friday or Saturday, April 29th or 30th. Will you please return to us the enclosed form indicating your preferences.

I also enclose a return envelope.

RWD/d
enclosures

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7 January 1966

Mr. George P. Springer
Assistant Dean
The Graduate School
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Dean Springer:

I am pleased to enclose an American Council of Learned Societies check for $1,500.00, payable to "Yale University".

This check represents the Council's contribution to expenses which Yale University may incur during the second semester in assisting the following ACLS International American Studies Fellows affiliated as Visiting Scholars with Yale University:

Mr. Michael L. Weaver of Magdalene College, Cambridge, affiliated with the Department of English Language and Literature.

Mr. P. Egil Tornqvist of the University of Uppsala, affiliated with the Department of American Studies.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Leyvraz of the University of Geneva, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy.

Two additional ACLS Fellows are currently at Yale University: Dr. Klaus Poenicke of the Free University of Berlin, who has completed his work with your Department of Comparative Literature and who will be returning to Germany at the end of the first semester; and Mr. Orm H. Overland of the University of Oslo who is continuing his studies at Yale as a doctoral candidate with the Department of American Studies, and whose tuition charges Yale University has kindly waived.

RWD:rc
Enclosure

cc: Professor Louis Marts, Yale University
✓ Professor Norman Holmes Pearson, Yale University
Professor John D. Wild, Yale University
ACLS Comptroller

American Studies 91:2. Expressions of the American Experience.

1963-1964

Mr. William Lilley

13, 17 Hillhouse Ave.

865-8939

Office hours: Monday, 3-5

<table><tr><td>September 24</td><td>Organizational lecture</td></tr><tr><td>October 1</td><td>David Reisman, <u>The Lonely Crowd</u></td></tr><tr><td>October 8</td><td>Francis Biddle, <u>A Casual First or Rexford Tugwell, The Light of Other Days</u></td></tr><tr><td>October 15</td><td>William Bradford, <u>Of Plymouth Plantation</u></td></tr><tr><td>October 22</td><td>Edmund Morgan, <u>The Puritan Family</u></td></tr><tr><td>October 29</td><td>Sumner Powell, <u>Puritan Village</u></td></tr><tr><td>November 5</td><td>William Bradford, <u>Of Plymouth Plantation</u></td></tr><tr><td>November 12</td><td>Alexis de Tocqueville, <u>Democracy in America</u></td></tr><tr><td>November 19</td><td>Alexis de Tocqueville, <u>Democracy in America</u></td></tr><tr><td>November 26</td><td>Alexis de Tocqueville, <u>Democracy in America</u></td></tr><tr><td>December 3</td><td>Alexis de Tocqueville, <u>Democracy in America</u></td></tr><tr><td>December 10</td><td>Benjamin Franklin, <u>Autobiography</u></td></tr><tr><td>December 17</td><td>Madison, Hamilton, Jay, <u>The Federalist</u></td></tr><tr><td>January 7</td><td>Henry Thoreau, <u>Walden</u></td></tr></table>

YALE UNIVERSITY
LAW SCHOOL

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06520

MYRES S. McDOUGAL
Sterling Professor of Law

October 28, 1965

Professor Norman H. Pearson
Chairman, American Studies Program
Yale University
231 Hall of Graduate Studies

Dear Norman:

You may remember that, when we talked at Mory's, I very strongly recommended a Professor Sakutaro Kyozuka. Subsequent to our talk one of my Japanese friends wrote me that Professor Kyozuka hoped to come to this country for a substantial period of time to pursue his research. I then wrote to Professor Kyozuka informing him of our conversation and asked him to send me a brief statement of his purpose and a brief biography.

Enclosed you will find a letter from Professor Kyozuka to me and the statements I requested. I regard Professor Kyozuka as one of the most promising of all the young and middle-aged scholars in international law in his country. Certainly, he is the best outside the Tokyo University circle.

I would deeply appreciate the most sympathetic consideration you can give to Professor Kyozuka for your program.

MSM:efk

Encls.

Chuo University

Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

October 22, 1965

Professor Myres S. McDougal
Yale Law School
New Haven, Conn.
U. S. A.

Dear Professor McDougal;

I thank you for your most kind letter of
October 13, 1965. I am delighted to learn that you have
had an honourable position of the President of the American
Law Schools Association as well as your successful academic
works.

On your kind recommendation, I sincerely thank
you for your warmest guidance. Our faculty of law, Chuo has
permitted me that I might go to the United States from April,
1966 to March, 1967 for my research works. I would like to
accept your suggestion, if at all possible. I have enclosed
my brief biography and a statement of my purpose in the United
States.

I sincerely hope you a good health and very
successful works.

With kindest regards,

Chuo University

Statement of my purpose

The faculty of law of our Chuo University has permitted me to go to the United States from April, 1966 to March, 1967 for my research works. I have planning to go to Yale, if at all possible, for my research works. The reasons that I want to stay at Yale Law School, are two;

On the first, I had much appreciated the policy-oriented approach for the establishment of world public order by Prof. McDougal when I was a graduate student at Yale in 1958-1959. I want to master the realistic approach to the world problems and to apply the method to the study of International Law and Relations under guidance of Prof. McDougal in this time.

On the second, I want to complete my research works on International Law and Relations refer to practices and recent tendencies in the United States. Especially, I have had much interested in the study on national tendencies concerning the observance of International Law i.e. the application and performance of treaties within national courts. I had published few articles on the topic in Japanese magazines. The United States has had many leading cases in this matter because of her long constitutional history. I want to examine those real cases in the view of the American Constitutional History.

After the completion of my research works, I will practice these obtained knowledges to my teaching and my research works in Japan.

October 22, 1965

Sakutaro Kyozuka
Professor of Law
Chuo University

I) Chuo University

October 22, 1965

## Brief biography

I was born in Niigata Prefecture of Japan in December, 1925. After graduating from Anglo-American Law Course, Faculty of Law at Chuo University in 1948, I remained the University as an Assistant of Law. Then I was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1953 and promoted to Professor of Law in 1962. I am majoring in International Law and Relations and am lecturing in these subjects for graduate students( Doctor & master courses) and for under-graduate students at Faculty of Law in Chuo University.

Besides, I am serving as a member of administrative committees of our University (International Academic Co-operation committee, correspondence course committee and comparative law institute) as well as of our Faculty of Law (appointment committee, curriculum committee and editor of law journal).

During 1958-1959, I had studied in the graduate course at Yale Law School under sponsors of the Yale Law School and Fulbright Commission. In 1960, I attended the 2nd United Nations Coference on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders at London as an adviser of our government.

2)

Chuo University

I have published a brief text-books of the Lecture on
International Law and the Lecture on International Relations
Japanese). Also I have Published articles in the field of
International Law especially on the theories and practices of
International Agreement (Treaty) in academic magazines in Japan.

Now I am a councilor and an editor of the Association
of International Law of Japan and a member of International Law
Association as well as American Society of International Law.
Besides I am serving as a study staff of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan.

I have wife and two boyes who are in good health as
well as I.

I affirm the above to be true in every particular.

Sakutaro Kyozenka
Professor of Law
Chuo University

Mr. William Lilley

13, 17 Hillhouse Ave
865-8939

Office hours: Monday, 3-5

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Memorandum

To : ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee

From : Richard W. Downar

We are mailing today, under separate cover, the agenda papers for the December 10th meeting of the Advisory Committee. I hope the bulkiness of the package will not discourage you.

In the agenda paper for each of the institutional grant requests we may very well have given you too much detail, but we preferred to do that rather than give you too little information upon which you would have to base your conclusions.

Shortly we shall have to print new sets of fellowship application forms. We will very much appreciate any suggestions you might have for eliminating superfluous items in the form, for more precise and clear wording of the questions, and for the addition of any new items or questions that you believe would make the application easier to evaluate.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 A.M. I suggest we should budget approximately one hour for Agenda Item I A (Institutional Grants in Europe); one hour for Agenda Item I B (Institutional Grants in the Western Pacific); and one hour for Agenda Item II (Fellowship Candidates from Australia and New Zealand); break for lunch, and devote the afternoon to Agenda Item III (Fellowship Candidates from Japan). Lunch will be scheduled for one o'clock at The Palm Restaurant.

December 10, 1965 Agenda

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D. Fellowship Candidates in Law (Agenda Paper 24 with 7 attachments)

E. Fellowship Candidates in Literature (Agenda Paper 25 with 17 attachments)

F. Fellowship Candidates in Philosophy and Sociology (Agenda Paper 26 with 5 attachments)

IV. Other Business

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Dear Mr. Stone:

July 1, 1965, concludes the third full year of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Program in Western Europe, and the fourth full year of ACLS grants for teaching posts and special projects in support of such studies in the universities of Western Europe. These activities have been carried out under the terms of the Ford Foundation grant of December, 1960, which made possible this challenging and rewarding program of collaboration between the ACLS and foreign universities. This letter, with attachments, is a report on activities and accomplishments to date, and an introductory report on steps being taken to implement the new Foundation grant which permits the ACLS to continue its American Studies activities in Western Europe for another five years, beginning in July, 1966, and to expand those activities to include Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

The ACLS, in conducting its American Studies Program during the past year, and in planning the expansion of its program to the Western Pacific, has been assisted by its American Studies Advisory Committee, listed in Attachment One, composed of American scholars with definite interest and personal experience in the educational developments in Europe and the Western Pacific.

FELLOWSHIPS

Western Europe

At this date, the ACLS has now spent or committed all $1,200,000.00 of the Ford Foundation grant allocated for fellowships. (A copy of the ACLS financial

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report which has been submitted to the Treasurer of the Foundation is enclosed
as Attachment Two.) Up to July 1, 1965, seventy-seven Fellows have come to
the United States to undertake advanced research for a minimum period of nine
months. The average length of time to date is thirteen months, with twenty-
five percent of the Fellows remaining for two academic years. The average cost
per Fellow to date has been approximately $11,000.00. An additional twenty-
two Fellows will arrive during the next several months. These new Fellows, as
well as grantees currently in the United States who have had their Fellowships
renewed for the academic year 1965-66, are listed on pages 5-7 of the April,
1965, *ACLS Newsletter*, enclosed as Attachment Three. Statistics on the number
of candidates by country and by field of study for 1964-65 and 1965-66 are
given in Attachment Four.

In addition to the ninety-nine Fellowships which have now been awarded,
there is an additional group of professors, or Senior Fellows, invited by the
ACLS to visit the United States for periods of two to four months to undertake
research or acquaint themselves with the current American scene. Eight Senior
Fellows have taken up such grants to date, and invitations have been issued to
five additional scholars for the coming academic year, as listed in Attachment
Five.

The regular Fellowships continue to be awarded on a competitive basis
without undue emphasis upon national origin or branch of American studies.
Competition announcements are sent to some three thousand European scholars in
pertinent disciplines. Selection, including university affiliation in the
United States, is made by the ACLS Advisory Committee in American Studies, on
the basis of formal applications, evaluation by rotating screening committees
of European scholars, and personal interviews with outstanding candidates.

The general quality of the candidates is now very high with a pleasing
spread in the fields of study represented. A comparatively large group of

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particularly outstanding candidates from one country appears to emerge each year--Norway in 1962, Germany in 1963, Sweden in 1964, and England in 1965. The number of qualified candidates remains disappointingly, but possibly not unexpectedly, small from France, Austria, Spain, and Belgium. The ACLS is now considering establishing different screening committees for candidates from Northern Europe as separate from candidates from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece in order to increase the number of successful applicants from the latter group of countries, who would then no longer be competing so directly with their often more qualified colleagues from Scandinavia, Germany, and England.

The observable effects of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Program are very gratifying. The prestige of the program is now well established in many universities both in Europe and in the United States. European universities are increasingly eager to have their most promising young "Americanists" participate in and benefit from the Fellowship Program, while American universities praise the intellectual quality and serious intent of the selected Fellows.

The professional advancement of returned Fellows, often directly attributable to their experience in the United States, is increasingly evident, as the following examples may indicate:

Michael L. Allen (1963-64), research fellow in English Literature at Birmingham University, appointed Lecturer in American Literature, Queen's University, Belfast. Jean F. P. Blondel (1963-64), Lecturer in Government, University of Keele, appointed Professor of Comparative Government, University of Essex. Werner W. Correll (1963-64), Lecturer in Education, Flensburg Teacher Training Institute, appointed Professor of Education, University of Giessen. Denis Donoghue (1963-64), Lecturer in English Literature, University College, Dublin, appointed Judith E. Wilson Lecturer in Poetry, Cambridge University. Robert C. Estall (1962-63), Lecturer in Geography, London School of Economics, promoted to Reader in North American Geography. Otto Graf (1963-64), graduate assistant in art history, University of Vienna, appointed Research Fellow, Twentieth Century Art Museum, Vienna. Alan H. Graham (1962-63), Lecturer in History, Queen's University, Belfast, promoted to Senior Lecturer in American History. Anthony S. King (1962-63), Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, appointed Senior Lecturer in American Government, University of

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Essex. K. Merete Licht (1962-63), librarian, Royal Library of Copenhagen, appointed Lecturer in American Literature, University of Copenhagen.
Robert L. Mane (1963-64), graduate assistant, University of Paris, appointed Professor of American Literature, University of Pau. Henk Meijer (1962-63), graduate assistant, University of Amsterdam, promoted to Lecturer in American Literature. Nils Ørvik (1962-63), researcher, Norwegian Ministry of Defense, appointed Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo.

These are but a few changes in status of returned Fellows, selected at random.

Scholarly publications directly resulting from the Fellowships are appearing steadily. In addition to the large number of articles and monographs, books include _The Better Half_ (a history of the emancipation of women in the United States) by Andrew Sinclair (1963-64); _L'Eta di Lincoln_ and _Storia dei negri degli Stati Uniti_ by Claudio Gorlier (1962-63); _Chicago's External Truck Movements_ by Magne Helvig (1962-64); _Nathaniel Hawthorne: Esquisse d'une Analyse de la Creation Artistique_ by Jean Normand (1962-63); and _Programmiertes Lernen und Lehrmaschinen_ by Werner W. Correll (1963-64).

The Fellowship Program is demonstrably filling a real need and producing gratifying results. Application forms and the official Terms of Award issued to Fellows state that the Program is financed by a generous grant to the ACLS from the Ford Foundation. We believe that both the Ford Foundation and the ACLS are receiving due credit for this important activity in support of American Studies abroad. The Program itself has developed in a manner singularly free of obstacles, frustrations, or difficulties while at the same time maintaining recognized academic integrity.

## Western Pacific

In March, 1965, the ACLS announced in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand the initiation during the calendar year 1966 of an American Studies Fellowship Program financed by a Ford Foundation grant. Individual letters of announcement were sent to 180 scholars in Australia, 70 in New Zealand, and 300 in Japan. An additional 550 printed announcements (see Attachment Six) were

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sent to individual junior scholars (and possible candidates) in Japan.

The deadline for submission of applications for these 1966 Fellowships was July 1, 1965. Screening is now in progress, with announcement of final selections expected in November.

In the Western Pacific program, candidacy has been restricted to scholars of no more than 45 years of age who are currently teaching at the university level. The response from Japan has been excellent, both as to spread among universities and fields of study, and as to preliminary evaluation of quality. By July 1st, 93 candidates had applied from 52 Japanese universities. A break-down by university and field of research is enclosed as Attachment Seven.

There have been 15 applications from Australia, and 9 from New Zealand. The quality appears good, but the number slightly smaller than had been expected. This is perhaps due to the fact that no printed announcements appropriate for bulletin board display were sent to those two countries--an omission which will be corrected next year.

In view of the fact that no more than a total of ten Fellowships will be available for candidates from all three countries, competition will be severe, and, it is presumed, will be increasingly so in 1966 and 1967 as the Program's Fellowship opportunities become even more widely known. The Foundation and the ACLS can consequently be assured that, if thorough selection procedures are followed, Fellows of truly outstanding qualities and promise will be chosen.

## INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

### Western Europe

During the past twelve months the ACLS has made twelve institutional grants to ten organizations in Europe. These grants are itemized on pages 3 and 4 of Attachment Three, the April <u>ACLS Newsletter</u>. Including these most

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recent grants, the ACLS has now made a total of fifty-nine grants to forty-nine institutions in Western Europe since the inception of the Program. These grants have been distributed among twelve countries and two international organizations (the Nordic Association for American Studies and the European Association for American Studies). Of the Ford Foundation funds of $990,000.00 available for such grants, $972,891.40 have now been spent or committed, leaving a balance under the present grant of $17,109.00 available for possible allocation before July 1, 1966. Requests for consideration under this balance have already been received from the University of Dijon and the University of Göttingen, and a number of additional proposals are expected shortly.

All of the teaching post grants provide for ACLS contributions over a period of time ranging from three to five years, with the recipient university promising to exert every effort to continue the post out of its own financial resources when the grant expires. Consequently most of the teaching post grants are still in operation. Similarly special project grants, particularly those providing for library expansion, have often been awarded on a matching basis over a period of years. For these reasons specific results of this phase of the Program must still be reported somewhat tentatively. A sample summary of some of those results is as follows:

**The Queen's University of Belfast.** The ACLS agreed to finance a Lectureship in American History for three years and to assist the University in building up its pertinent library holdings. The post was established in 1964-65 with the appointment of ACLS American Studies Fellow Alan Harry Graham (1962-63). First-year courses on "The History of the United States 1787-1952" are now given annually, with an optional course for honours students in alternate years, and a "special subject" optional course for honours students on modern American history.

**The University of Bergen.** The ACLS granted $5,000 to Bergen to expand its library holdings in American literature. This has served as a catalyst to increase the University's course offerings, and the number of students enrolled, in American literature. ACLS Fellow Georg Roppen (1962-63) has been promoted to a full professorship as Chairman of the University's Department of English, and steps are now actively under way to establish a permanent teaching post exclusively devoted to American literature.

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**The University of Bern.** The ACLS agreed to finance one-half of the costs for five years of establishing a permanent Lectureship in American Literature and Civilization, and a permanent Assistantship in American Literature and Civilization. These posts have now been established, with official cantonal agreement to finance the other half of the costs for five years, and to continue the posts under the regular university budget upon the expiration of the ACLS grant. As a result of this grant, students in the Department of English are now permitted to take examinations in American literature, and courses are regularly being offered in a number of subjects, including "The Early Republic, 1783-1829," "Introduction to American Studies," and "American Dramatists, 1920-1960." An average of thirty students were enrolled for each of these courses in 1964-65, and this year all students majoring in English must take examinations on two American authors out of the ten "required" authors.

**The British Association for American Studies.** An ACLS grant was made to the BAAS for the preparation and publication of a series of seven annotated bibliographies on American Studies. The first two publications were general bibliographies for the use of secondary schools. The other five publications will each be devoted to one branch of American Studies and will be for the use of teacher training institutions and universities. The bibliographies on American Literature and American History, in addition to the secondary school bibliographies, have now appeared, and the remaining three will be published shortly. The bibliographies are proving to be very successful, particularly since they pay special attention to books currently available in cheap editions, and are also being used in other countries.

**The University of Copenhagen.** A library grant to the University has enabled it to expand its holdings in American Literature sufficiently to allow students to write theses and dissertations in this subject. The expansion was also a factor in permitting the University to establish a permanent Lectureship in American Literature, to which post a returned ACLS Fellow, K. Merete Licht (1962-63), has been appointed. Formal plans are now under way at the University to establish an American Institute distinct and independent from the Department of English.

**The University of Hull.** The ACLS agreed to finance for a period of five years beginning with the academic year 1962-63 a Chair in American Studies and to assist the University in expanding its pertinent library holdings. With this grant, the University promptly established a full Department of American Studies, appointing to the Chair Professor Geoffrey Moore (1965 ACLS Senior Fellow). That Department has already become gratifyingly large and successful through heavy University contributions and sustained interest. Visiting Fulbright professors in various branches of American Studies are now a regular feature, and the University has established three permanent lectureships in support of the Chair, and is contemplating several more. An example of the effect this has had is that prior to the ACLS grant, no students at Hull were majoring in American Studies. For the academic year 1964-65, over two hundred students applied for admission to Hull to undertake such study, twenty-seven of them being admitted.

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**The London School of Economics and Political Science.** This important institution, with ACLS assistance, is taking a commanding lead in American Studies in Europe. An initial ACLS grant for assistance in establishing a Readership in American Government and Politics has already expired, and the post has become a permanent feature of the School's regular budget. With similar ACLS help, a Readership in American Economic History was established in 1964-65, and a Readership in Economic Geography of North America will be established in 1965-66, with 1963-64 ACLS Fellow Robert C. Estall scheduled for appointment to the latter post.

**The University of Lund.** A modest ACLS library grant in American literature to the University in 1962 was an important factor in leading the University to establish a new Professorship in English and American Literature in 1963, to which was appointed Professor Claes Schaar (1965 ACLS Senior Fellow). The very recent ACLS grant of the Carnegie slide collection on "The Arts of the United States" to the University's Department of Art History has aroused considerable interest, with arrangements already in force to make the slides available on a loan basis to the various teacher training institutes and other institutions of higher learning in Southern Sweden.

**The University of Munich.** A $15,000 library grant to the University's American Institute has been an important factor in enabling the Institute's Professor of American Civilization, F. G. Friedmann, to teach his popular courses in American intellectual history. Without that assistance, the Institute library would have been unable to provide the students with the necessary bibliographical resources; with that assistance the Institute has been able to establish one of the most complete American Studies libraries in Central Europe. An additional ACLS grant enabled the University to establish a Professorship in American Literature, initiated with the academic year 1963-64. The course offerings made possible by this Chair have been so popular that the University has already formally approved making the Chair a permanent position under the University's budget. Final ministerial approval is expected shortly.

**Rome Center of American Studies.** In 1962 the ACLS agreed to finance approximately one-half of the estimated costs in preparing a Union Catalogue of the American Studies holdings of the twenty-one major libraries in Rome. The compilation of such a catalogue had been selected as a top priority project by the Italian Forum in American Studies, composed of the leading professors in pertinent subjects in universities throughout Italy, when it met in December, 1961. The project commenced in May, 1963, and was completed in December, 1964. It involved the services of a director, three supervising librarians, and twenty-five part-time librarians. From approximately ten million catalogue cards in the libraries involved, 62,000 were culled which, after careful re-examination, were reduced to approximately 35,000 due to duplication and irrelevant material. These 35,000 cards have now been duplicated, and the resulting Union Catalogue, located in the Center's Nelson Gay Library, is being used by students throughout Italy undertaking research in some aspect of American Studies and trying to locate bibliographic resources.

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**University of Uppsala.** The ACLS initiated, with the academic year 1962-63, a five-year grant providing funds for a Chair in American Literature, a Lectureship in American History, and library support for these two positions. Not only have these posts been established, with in consequence a steadily expanding number of courses taught and dis-sertations written, but the University has now formally presented to the Swedish government a plan for a greatly enlarged inter-departmental institute of American studies including attention to the sociology, government, and economics as well as the history and literature of the United States. Without the ACLS grant, these plans would not have materialized, at least for a number of years.

**The University of Utrecht.** ACLS assistance has been instrumental in establishing the first professorial position, a Chair in American Literature, specifically devoted to some branch of American studies in The Netherlands. Although the Chair was only initiated with the academic year 1964-65, its impact is already leading the University to consider establishing a Chair in American History, and a multi-discipline institute of American studies.

The above examples have been selected somewhat at random, and could be equally matched, in their effect, by most of the other grants which have been made since initiation of the Program. To date but one grant seems to have been fairly unproductive and a second grant still open to question.

## Western Pacific

This phase of the Program is just being initiated, and no grants have as yet been made. As evidence of the widespread interest which was aroused by the announcement in March, 1965, of the Ford Foundation grant to the ACLS in support of American Studies in the Western Pacific, specific grant requests from New Zealand have already arrived from the University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury, the University of Otago, the University of Waikato, and the University of Wellington; that is, five of the six universities in that country. Similarly in Australia, specific grant requests have already been received from the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Bedford Park, Monash University, the University of New England, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania, and the University of Western Australia, or nine of the thirteen universities.

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Because the situation is much more delicate in Japan, the ACLS has not
made any public announcement of the possibility of institutional grants in that
country, preferring to wait until the Fellowship phase has been properly
inaugurated, and the ACLS has gained additional experience in dealing with
Japanese academics. Nothing can therefore be reported at this time.

ADMINISTRATION

The Program continues to be administered by myself and my assistant, Mrs. Ella M. Decker, with regular support on all financial matters from the ACLS Comptroller's office.

The ACLS believes this American Studies Program to be an important and
successful activity, fully meeting the expectations of the Council and the
Ford Foundation which led to its inception. We shall be happy to answer any
questions you might have.

<u>Attachments:</u>

1) American Studies Advisory Committee

2) Financial Report

3) April 1965 <u>ACLS</u> Newsletter

4) European Fellowship Program, 1964-65 and 1965-66 Statistics

5) ACLS American Studies Senior Fellows

6) Announcement of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Program in Japan

7) Japanese Fellowship Program, 1966 Statistics

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TELEPHONE: YUKON 6-7393

October 5, 1965

Memorandum

To: ACLS American Studies Advisory Committee

From: Ella M. Decker, Secretary, American Studies Program

On September 29 Mr. Downar (who is now in the Far East) sent you a memorandum scheduling a meeting of the American Studies Advisory Committee for Friday, December 10. Return postcards are now coming in and Professor John Hope Franklin reports that he must attend a Fulbright Board meeting on December 10 and asks if it is possible for the meeting to be changed to Saturday, December 11.

Will you please let me know at your earliest convenience whether December 11 would be equally convenient for you. As soon as I know the availability of the majority of the Committee I will write again confirming the date for either December 10 or 11.

enclosure: postcard

copy to: Mr. Richard W. Downar

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July 29, 1965

Dear Mr. Pearson:

Thank you for your note about your
engagement at the SAMLA meeting on Novem-
ber 4. Mr. Downar is tentatively schedul-
ing the American Studies Advisory Committee
meeting for either November 19 or December
10, but neither date is firm yet.

No, I haven't acquired a blender yet.
--but I had a wonderful watercress soup made
in a blender in Bucks County last weekend,
and as soon as I find myself near an ap-
pliance store I'll make a purchase.

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September 29, 1965

Memorandum

From: Richard W. Downar, Director, American Studies Program

We would like to schedule a meeting of the American Studies
Advisory Committee on Friday, December 10. The purpose of the meet-
ing will be to review institutional grant requests from Western Europe,
Australia, and New Zealand, and to select fellowship candidates from
Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

The meeting will be scheduled to begin at 9:30 in the morning
and will continue until rather late in the afternoon. It will be held
in the Terrace Lounge on the eleventh floor of this building.

Agenda papers will be sent to you at least two weeks in advance
of the meeting.

I very much hope that you will be able to attend, and request
that you return the attached postcard to me.

enclosure

1 September 1965

Mr Richard W. Downar, Director

American Studies Program
American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street, New York City.

Dear Dick,

Presumably you will be returning about now and will want to
know the names of my suggestions for Japanese advisers on the applica-
tions for ACLS grants in American Studies. Here they are. They are the
results of my consultation with available experts in the particular
fields. They are in addition to Suga for literature, and Kaji for
Geography.

**Economics:** Prof. Shigeto Tsuru, of Hitsubashi (Tokyo). He was the one first mentioned by others as well as yourself. A second possibility is Prof. Iwao Ayusawa, at I.C.U., in Tokyo, who has I believe a Columbia Doctorate.

**History and Government:** Professor Tatsuji Takeushi, of Kansai Gakuin, in Kobe (you'd better check on this address, it is not in the heart of Kobe). Takeushi sensai has a Chicago PhD and is an authority of international Relations and American foreign policy, and can handle the bread-and-butter history as well. I could find no one in Kyushu.

**Law:** Professor Shigeru Oda, of the Faculty of Law at Tohoku University, in Sendai. He is an authority on International Law, is originally a Today! graduate and presumably will go back there shortly on the death of their man., but the present Tohoku address gives us a spread.

A second suggestion is Professor Sakutaro Kyozuka, of Chō University,
Kanda-Surugadai
Chiyioda-ku, Tokyo
McDugal
who is also in International Law. Prof. Myres Heedegeatt who knows the Japanese
academic legal scene well, and who gave me these names, says however, that with
the Japanese who study here on legal fellowships and his own knowledge he can
give sufficient advise if we wish to deal with law as we are doing with philosophy
and sociology. I will certainly consult him for my personal briefing, but I
suspect it might be smart to use the Tohoku man for the sake of appearance.

If these are not satisfactory, let me know. And forgive my
faulty typing. My secretary is still on holiday.

Sincerely,

345 EAST 46th STREET (AT UNITED NATIONS PLAZA), NEW YORK 17, NEW YORK
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December 28, 1962

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
Chairman, American Studies Department
Yale University
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Professor Pearson:

Thank you very much for your letter of
December 19th concerning Mr. M. Nejib Ben
Hamida of Tunis.

We have accepted an application from him,
and he will go through our normal screening
processes during the next three months. I
am also writing to him to suggest that he
apply to the Yale University Graduate School
for admission and for a scholarship in view
of the possibility that he may be eliminated
from our competition because of his nationality.

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May 15, 1962

Mr. Norman Holmes Pearson
Chairman, American Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Norman:

Thank you so much for your very complete
answer to my query about an encyclopedia of
American literature. I may say that the mis-
givings you express seem to be shared by others
in the field, notably by Henry Nash Smith. I
shall of course keep you informed of any deci-
sion on this whole matter.

You will be pleased to hear that a concise
*DAB* is in the works. It is to be a one-volume
version, including at least a mention of every-
one who appears in the large edition and fairly
full biographies of the more important figures.
It should be ready by next winter at the latest.

Again, thank you for your help. I trust
we will meet again before too long.

CB:jb

11 May 1962

Mr. Charles Blitzer
Executive Associate
American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York 17, New York

Dear Charles:

It has been the end of the college year, and the art of ponder-
ing rather than the art of procrastination, that have kept me from
answering your letter of the 23rd about the possibility of a scholarly
encyclopedia of American literature on the broad terms you mention.

I suppose the problem centers dually on who will prepare it and
who will use it. Taking the audience first, I should assume its strong-
est value would be felt by (a) foreign students of American literature
and culture, especially those residing abroad but also those resident in
the United States for a brief period of study; (b) high school students
in the States; (c) junior colleges in the States; and (d) public libraries
here and possibly abroad. I cannot of course speak for the attitude of
all teachers of American literature and American Studies, but I should
guess that faculties in the better colleges and universities would shy
away from recommending to undergraduate or graduate students what could
very easily become canned data stamped with what might seem to be a Seal
of Approval. It is for this reason that we seldom recommend encyclo-
pedias, except for such extensive biographical works as the DAB. As an
example, I find comparatively few persons using The Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences. Our historical knowledge as well as our technical skills
of analyses and emphasis of interest change so rapidly that an article
on "Transcendentalism," as a specific instance, which would be adequate
now might not continue to be so after Perry Miller's new book. But then,
you know all these problems.

Certain aids of course do already exist: the DAB, The Oxford
Companion to American Literature, and of course there is still Spiller's
Literary History of the United States which I understand is to be re-
printed and brought up-to-date. I wish there were a Shorter DAB to
parallel the Shorter DEB, but there isn't. One must remember that the
average American student will not be able to afford a four-volume work
such as you are considering, and I suppose this will be true of the
average faculty member as well. The buying will be general institutional.

Mr. Blitzer

I seem to be less enthusiastic about the proposal than I ought
to be, but my doubts are more on the practical side than regarding the
usefulness of the book in certain circles. I do think that the four
groups I have cited in my first paragraph would welcome it if they can
afford it; and indeed its service abroad would be enough for the Russians
to think a book on their own literature worth subsidizing simply for its
propaganda value. (Propaganda need not be a bad word.) Perhaps the Ford
Foundation would put up the quarter of a million or more which would be
necessary to finance a project on this basis.

To compile and prepare the volumes would be an immense task, and
I am not sure whether all American literature and civilization scholars
will jump at the chance to contribute to it. A non-perfunctory encyclo-
pedia article requires as much work as a monograph, without the academic
benefits that come from articles and books. The pay for an encyclopedia
article is usually small, but the responsibility is great. The general
editorial work that would go into simply the structuring of the book as
a whole would be the equivalent of a sophisticated socio-cultural analysis
of America since there would be difficulties in establishing the limits
of topics related to the problem of a national literature. There may be
just the man for the task of editor-in-chief and just the men for the
editorial board. But I really don't know senior men whom I could recom-
mend, or juniors whom I could advise to take this up as against the
professional advantages of publishing one or two books of their own.

hrd

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April 23, 1962

Mr. Norman H. Pearson
Department of English
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Mr. Pearson:

It has recently been suggested that the ACLS might undertake to organize and to find funds for the preparation of a great scholarly encyclopedia of American literature - a work of perhaps four DAB-size volumes, written and edited by the leading scholars in the field, and covering not only literary figures and works, but also intellectual and philosophical background and other germane material. I suppose that the example of the DAB lies behind this suggestion.

Would you be good enough to give me your opinion of this proposal? The first question which I find myself unable to answer is whether such an encyclopedia is needed. If it is needed, do you feel that it would be appropriate for the ACLS to take the initiative in its planning and preparation? And, if so, have you any suggestions about the way in which we should proceed: possible scope, organization, financing, editing, authorship?

We shall be most grateful for any advice you can give us.

CB:jb

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July 22, 1965

Prof. D. Kurt Frür
Seminar für Religionspädagogik
der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
852 Erlangen
Federal Republic of Germany

Dear Professor Frür:

I have delayed replying to your letter of July 6th until I
had time to check with some members of our Council on the question
you have raised. This Council's American Studies Program is a
limited program both as to funds and objectives. After serious
consideration, we unfortunately have come to the conclusion that
both these limitations prevent us from contributing to your In-
stitute's library holdings in religious education with particular
reference to practical theology in relation to psychology.

Although we are unable to assit you, I am taking the liberty
of passing your letter on to some other individuals who may be able
to make appropriate suggestions to you concerning other possible
sources for assistance in the United States.

b. c. to: Professor Norman Holmes Pearson

SEMINAR FÜR RELIGIONSPÄDAGOGIK
DER FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÖRNBERG

852 Erlangen, Kodstraße 6

VORSTAND:
PROF. D. KURT FRÜR
852 Erlangen
Membacher Weg 45

July 6, 1965

To
The American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York 17, N.Y.

Dear Sirs:

We are very grateful to the American Consulate General
for a letter of June 15, 1965 giving us some information
on the ACLS - Program and what we call the "Ford-Stiftung".
Under 2) the letter mentioned funds for libraries.

The last two years we have been working on a study project
of American Pastoral Psychology and Counseling. We, too,
are highly interested in American Religious Education
and keeping the central library of American Lutheran
books on that field, for instance of the Long Range
Program of the LCIA, in Germany. The assistant of this
institute, Vikar D. Stollberg, has been doing research
work in the States and will go back there as soon as
possible. Since American theologians have been working
on the field of Practical Theology in relation to
Psychology for a longer time and with more emphasis than
the Germans we are trying to introduce the results of
their work to our country. Our library keeps the main
American journals on that field and contains many American
books.

We therefore should appreciate very much if we could
participate in the ACLS-Program and request $ 1.000 for
the further building up of our American library.

Gratefully yours,
D. K. Fröc.

SEMINAR FÜR RELIGIONSPÄDAGOGIK
DER FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÖRNBERG
852 Erlangen, Kodistraße 6

VORSTAND:
PROF. D. KURT FRÜR

852 Erlangen
Membacher Weg 45

July 6, 1965

To

The American Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York 17, N.Y.

Dear Sirs:

27 July 1965

Mrs. Ella Decker
A.C.L.S.
345 East 46th Street
New York, New York 10017

Dear Mrs. Decker:

When I saw Mr. Downar last week I forgot
to tell him that I have an engagement to address
the South Atlantic MLA in Atlantic City on Thurs
day, November 4. I ought to have mentioned it
in order that he will not plan the ACLS meeting
at that time.

I hope you got the blender before last
Sunday. Here it was so hot we ate nothing but
ice cubes.

Sincerely,

NHP:d

AMERICAN STUDIES GRANTS

at 6/30/65

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<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>*Amount of Grant</th><th>Paid 7/1/64-6/30/65</th><th>Committed Balance</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>European Association for American Studies - Handbook</td><td>$ 4,000.00</td><td>$ 4,000.00</td><td>$ -0-</td></tr><tr><td>European Association for American Studies - Aarhus Conference</td><td>1,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>1,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Wales - Aberystwyth</td><td>11,000.00</td><td>5,500.00</td><td>5,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Queens University - Belfast</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Birmingham</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>7,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>British Association for American Studies</td><td>4,000.00</td><td>2,400.00</td><td>1,600.00</td></tr><tr><td>Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique - Belgium</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>15,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge</td><td>33,600.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>25,200.00</td></tr><tr><td>Kobenhavns Universitet ($5000 bal. cancelled)</td><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Edinburgh</td><td>11,000.00</td><td>5,500.00</td><td>5,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Exeter</td><td>11,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>11,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Dr. Ernest Fraenkel</td><td>1,250.00</td><td>1,250.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>University of Hull</td><td>25,200.00</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>16,800.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Keele</td><td>22,400.00</td><td>5,600.00</td><td>16,800.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leeds</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leicester</td><td>8,400.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>5,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Leiden</td><td>7,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>7,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Liverpool</td><td>26,400.00</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>23,400.00</td></tr><tr><td>London School of Economics & Political Science - History</td><td>16,800.00</td><td>4,200.00</td><td>12,600.00</td></tr><tr><td>London School of Economics & Political Science - Geography</td><td>21,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>21,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Lund</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Manchester</td><td>26,566.00</td><td>26,566.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester Public Libraries</td><td>10,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Milano</td><td>2,000.00</td><td>1,000.00</td><td>1,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of München</td><td>16,000.00</td><td>8,000.00</td><td>8,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of München - Amerika Institut</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Westf. Wilhelms-Universität - Münster</td><td>15,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>10,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Nijmegen</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>3,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Nottingham</td><td>9,780.00</td><td>625.00</td><td>9,155.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of East Anglia - Norwich</td><td>16,500.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>16,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Oslo</td><td>21,000.00</td><td>6,500.00</td><td>14,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Oslo - Historisk Institutt</td><td>1,000.00</td><td>1,000.00</td><td>-0-</td></tr><tr><td>Universita degli Studi - Pisa - books</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>1,500.00</td><td>1,500.00</td></tr><tr><td>Universita degli Studi - Pisa - teaching post</td><td>8,097.50</td><td>-0-</td><td>8,097.50</td></tr><tr><td>University of Reading</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>6,000.00</td><td>12,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>Center of American Studies - Rome</td><td>20,000.00</td><td>5,000.00</td><td>15,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Sheffield</td><td>22,000.00</td><td>10,667.00</td><td>11,333.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Southampton</td><td>18,500.00</td><td>7,500.00</td><td>11,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Strasbourg</td><td>16,000.00</td><td>-0-</td><td>16,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Tübingen</td><td>3,000.00</td><td>2,062.50</td><td>937.50</td></tr><tr><td>University of Uppsala</td><td>54,000.00</td><td>18,000.00</td><td>36,000.00</td></tr><tr><td>University of Utrecht</td><td>45,000.00</td><td>11,400.00</td><td>33,600.00</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td></td><td>$584,493.50</td><td>$180,070.50</td><td>$404,423.00</td></tr></tfoot></table>

*Committed balances at 6/30/64 plus new grants.

ACLS

CABLE ADDRESS: ACOLSOCNEWYORK

TELEPHONE: YUKON 6-7393

July 14, 1965

Dear Norman,

Here is an advance copy of the report we are sending to the Ford Foundation, with attachments. It is dated July 20th, and will be sent to Ford on that date, because only then will Attachment Two (our Comptroller's financial report) be ready. I had planned on sending everything, as informational material, to each of you on the Advisory Committee but am giving you your copy early so that you may look it over before we meet next Wednesday. I will also give you at that time the missing Attachment Two.

As I mentioned to you over the telephone, I am particularly anxious to get your recommendations on Japanese scholars we might use as screening consultants in the Fellowship Program. Attachment Seven will give you an idea of the fields of study and numbers of candidates involved.

Looking forward very much to seeing you,

RWD/d
enclosures

July 1, 1965

Current American Studies Advisory Committee

James W. Angell, Professor of Economics, Columbia University

John Hope Franklin, Professor of American History, University of Chicago

John D. Goheen, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Dean Erwin Griswold, Harvard Law School

Norman Holmes Pearson, Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Henry Nash Smith, Professor of American Literature, University of California
at Berkeley

Robert E. Spiller, Professor of American Literature, University of Pennsylvania

William R. Taylor, Associate Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin

Senior Fellow Grants
=======================

The following scholars have received ACLS Senior Scholar grants and have
visited the United States:

Roger Asselineau, professor of American literature, University of Paris, and Chairman, Executive Committee, European Association of American Studies. (1963)

Elio Chinol, professor of English and American literature, University of Naples. (1964)

Harro Kühnelt, professor of English and American literature, University of Innsbruck. (1964)

Antonio La Pergola, professor of American Government and Constitutional Law, University of Padova. (1963)

Agostino Lombardo, professor of English and American literature, University of Milan. (1963)

Geoffrey Moore, professor of American Studies, University of Hull. (1965)

Tauno Mustanoja, professor of English and American literature, University of Helsinki. (1963)

Claes Schaar, professor of English and American literature, University of Lund. (1965)

The following scholars have received ACLS Senior Scholar grants and will arrive in the United States during the next year:

Ursula Brumm, professor of American Intellectual History, Free University of Berlin.

Norman D. Harper, professor of American history, University of Melbourne.

Franz Link, professor of American Studies, University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Marcello Pagnini, professor of English and American literature, University of Florence.

Ingrid E. Semmingsen, professor of American history, University of Oslo.

345 East 46th Street

(At United Nations Plaza)

New York, New York 10017

Cable Address: ACOLSOC NEWYORK

Telephone: YUkon 6-7393

AMERICAN STUDIES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce an American Studies Fellowship Program available to Japanese scholars. These Fellowships are for scholars of no more than 45 years of age who are teaching at the university level, and who wish to engage in advanced research in the United States on some aspect of the history, culture, or civilization of this country. Appropriate fields include American history or literature, the geography, economic history, or government of the United States, American art, architectural history, or philosophy, or the social structure, political or economic institutions of the United States.

The Fellowships are for a minimum period of nine months, and provide for all expenses, including transportation, maintenance, and health insurance for the recipients and their accompanying dependents, as well as the recipients' educational and research expenses, including English language instruction where necessary.

Selection of candidates for these Fellowships will be on a competitive basis. Scholars interested in Fellowships to be initiated during the year 1966 should write to *The American Studies Program, American Council of Learned Societies, 345 East 46th Street, New York, N. Y. 10017, U.S.A.* The letter should contain the applicant's name, address, age, university position, a brief description of the research he wishes to undertake, and the names and addresses of three Japanese or American scholars who might serve as referees of the candidate's qualifications. Such letters must arrive at the American Council of Learned Societies no later than July 1, 1965. If the ACLS judges the candidate to be qualified to enter the competition, formal application forms will then be sent to the candidate for completion and return. Announcement of awards will be made no later than January, 1966.

This Fellowship Program is presently scheduled to run for five years, and is made possible through financial support received by the American Council of Learned Societies from The Ford Foundation. The dates for submission of applications will be approximately the same each year. It is hoped that you will call the existence of the ACLS American Studies Fellowship Program to other appropriate scholars of your acquaintance.

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<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">University</th><th rowspan="2">Candidates Initially Rejected</th><th colspan="10">Candidates submitted to Screening Committee</th><th rowspan="2">Grand Total</th></tr><tr><th>Econ.</th><th>Geog.</th><th>Hist.</th><th>Law</th><th>Lit.</th><th>Phil.</th><th>Pol.Sci.</th><th>Soc.</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>SOUTH HONSHU</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Doshisha U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1 1/2</td><td>2 1/2</td></tr><tr><td>Hiroshima Agri. Coll.</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Hiroshima U.</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Kobe U.</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Konan U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td>1/2</td></tr><tr><td>Kwansei Gakuin U.</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>3</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Kyoto U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>6</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Okayama U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Osaka City U.</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Osaka U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Otani U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Shimane U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Yamaguchi U.</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Sub-Totals</strong></td><td>7</td><td>5</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>6</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>22</td><td></td><td>29</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2">University</th><th rowspan="2">Candidates Initially Rejected</th><th colspan="10">Candidates submitted to Screening Committee</th><th rowspan="2">Grand Total</th></tr><tr><th>Econ.</th><th>Geog.</th><th>Hist.</th><th>Law</th><th>Lit.</th><th>Phil.</th><th>Pol.Sci.</th><th>Soc.</th><th>Total</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><u>TOKYO AREA</u> (continued)</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Saitama U.</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Seikei U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td>1/2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sophia U.</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tamagawa U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo Metropolitan U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo U. of Education</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td>1 1/2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tokyo U.</td><td>4</td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1/2</td><td></td><td>1 1/2</td><td>5 1/2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Waseda U.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sub-Totals</td><td>12</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td>16</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>29</td><td>41</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>TOTALS</strong></td><td><strong>24</strong></td><td><strong>10</strong></td><td><strong>3</strong></td><td><strong>7</strong></td><td><strong>8</strong></td><td><strong>31</strong></td><td><strong>3</strong></td><td><strong>5</strong></td><td><strong>2</strong></td><td><strong>69</strong></td><td><strong>93</strong></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

NOTE: Entries of "1/2" indicate that this is one of two universities at which a candidate is teaching.

TELEPHONE: YUKON 6-7393

May 25, 1965

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson
231-232 Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Norman,

I am honored to inform you officially that the ACLS Board of Directors with great pleasure requests you to accept appointment to the ACLS Advisory Committee in American Studies for the academic year 1965-66. You are acquainted with the work of this Committee in assisting the ACLS in conducting its American Studies Program in Western Europe, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. The other Committee members are James W. Angell, Professor of Economics at Columbia; John Hope Franklin, Professor of American History at Chicago; John D. Goheen, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford; Erwin Griswold, Dean of the Harvard Law School; Henry Nash Smith, Professor of American Literature at Berkeley; Robert E. Spiller, Professor of American Literature at Pennsylvania; and William R. Taylor, Professor of American History at Wisconsin.

I am enclosing a copy of the Minutes of the most recent meeting of this Advisory Committee. During the coming academic year we are tentatively scheduling a meeting in November or early December to consider Fellowship applications from the Western Pacific, and institutional grants to that area and to Western Europe, and a meeting in April to consider Fellowship applications from Western Europe, and institutional grants to that area and the Western Pacific.

I have talked with Professor and Mrs. Claes Schaar since their visit to Yale, and I wish to thank you for the very warm hospitality you extended to them. Professor Schaar was overwhelmed with your reception of him and his wife, and seems to have gained a great deal of information and stimulation out of his visit to New Haven. We are most appreciative.

RWD/d
enclosure

CABLE ADDRESS: ACOLSOC

TELEPHONE: YUKON 6-7393

October 19, 1965

Memorandum

This is further to my memorandum of October 5th concerning the date of the Advisory Committee meeting. The majority of the Committee prefers the original date of Friday, December 10th, and we are confirming the meeting for that date beginning at 9:30 in the Terrace Lounge on the eleventh floor of this building.

I will make hotel reservations for you at the Hotel Barclay in accordance with your postcard requests.

copy to: R. W. Downar

15 July 1965

Mr. Richard Downar
Amer. Council of Learned Societies
345 East 46th Street
New York, New York 10017

Dear Dick:

Rather than trust to my memory when I
come to see you next week, I enclose copies
of the announcement of the English Institute
program in September. The Institute brings
together probably as good a group of intellec-
tual critics and scholars as anything held in
this country. It is an unusually good oppor-
tunity for ACLS Foreign Fellows. Though I
doubt that you will want automatically to sign
up people for it, the meeting certainly ought
to be called to their attention.

Sincerely,

NHP:d
encls.

A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ACADEMIES

NEWSLETTER

VOL. XVI

APRIL 1965

NUMBER FOUR

Tax Aspects of Leaves and Travel MICHAEL H. CARDOZO 1

Announcements:

ACLS American Studies Program 3

Grants-in-Aid 7

Grants for Slavic and East European Studies 11

THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

is a federation of national organizations concerned with the humanities—the languages and literature, philosophies and religions, history and the arts, and the associated techniques—and the humanistic elements in the social sciences. It was organized in 1919 and incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1924.

The ACLS represents the United States in the International Union of Academies (Union Académique Internationale, Palais des Académies, Brussels).

THE CONSTITUENT SOCIETIES OF THE ACLS ARE:

American Philosophical Society, 1743
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780
American Antiquarian Society, 1812
American Oriental Society, 1842
American Numismatic Society, 1858
American Philological Association, 1869
Archaeological Institute of America, 1879
Society of Biblical Literature, 1880
Modern Language Association of America, 1883
American Historical Association, 1884
American Economic Association, 1885
American Folklore Society, 1888
American Dialect Society, 1889
Association of American Law Schools, 1900
American Philosophical Association, 1901
American Anthropological Association, 1902
American Political Science Association, 1903
Bibliographical Society of America, 1904
Association of American Geographers, 1904
American Sociological Association, 1905
College Art Association of America, 1912
History of Science Society, 1924
Linguistic Society of America, 1924
Mediaeval Academy of America, 1925
American Musicological Society, 1934
Society of Architectural Historians, 1940
Association for Asian Studies, 1941
American Society for Aesthetics, 1942
Metaphysical Society of America, 1950
American Studies Association, 1950
Renaissance Society of America, 1954

TAX ASPECTS OF LEAVES AND TRAVEL:
REMINDERS FOR PROFESSORS*

MICHAEL H. CARDOZO

The purpose of this memorandum is to remind members of college and university faculties of a number of tax aspects of leaves of absence and travel in connection with activities related to their academic position. Because individual situations call for individual analysis, this memorandum is intended to serve only as a check list and reminder of what should be considered in preparing income tax returns. In determining how to treat individual items, each bewildered taxpayer must seek guidance from his regular advisor on matters of taxation.

Business Expenses

Basic to the proper tax treatment of a professor's activities is the recognition that, under the Internal Revenue Code, these activities are part of a "trade or business." As a consequence, "all the ordinary and necessary expenses" paid in carrying on those activities are deductible from income. What is an "ordinary and necessary expense" depends, of course, on the individual case, but the following items are often in that category:

(a) Transportation costs involved in travel related to teaching, research, lecturing, writing, and, in many cases, the acquisition of knowledge and skill in his field.

(b) When cost of the travel is an "ordinary and necessary expense," then there may be deducted not only the transportation costs, but all other normal incidental expenses of a trip away from home, such as hotel, meals (for himself and those he finds it necessary to entertain), tips, local transportation (e.g., taxis), and stenographic services.

Some agents of the Internal Revenue Service have argued that a trip taken by a professor in order to examine material or speak with people in a distant area can be a "necessary" expense only if he was ordered to make the trip in order to perform his assigned duties. They found it hard to understand how a professor with tenure could consider a trip "necessary" if he was not required by his university to make it, and, indeed decided to go entirely on his own without even asking permission. The Treasury and Justice Departments in 1963, however, officially accepted as deductible this kind of item when it can be demonstrated that it helps him to perform his work as a member of an academic faculty.

A professor may be in a travel status for many months or for a whole

*This memorandum was drafted late in 1964 by the Executive Director of the Association of American Law Schools in response to the request of fellow members of the Conference of the Secretaries of the Constituent Societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.

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year of sabbatical or other leave. This alone does not affect the deductibility of his "ordinary and necessary" expenses incident to his project. Nor does the presence of an accompanying wife and children necessarily affect the deductibility of this kind of expense. The professor's own expenses, computed by appropriate allocations of specific items, may continue to be deductible. Furthermore, reasonable payments to a member of the professor's family who is serving as an assistant for research, for example, may become deductible. The first step in deciding whether such a deduction is proper is, as always, one's own conviction that it was necessary in the accomplishment of his work.

It must always be borne in mind that expenses are deductible only to the extent that they are not only "ordinary and necessary," but also provable. Therefore, contemporary records of expenditures are important, backed by receipts, cancelled checks, ticket stubs, and so forth. If a part of one's home is necessarily used as a study, it may be possible to classify it as an office and to deduct an appropriate portion of heat, light, and tax bills and depreciation on that account. Again, it must be shown to be an "ordinary and necessary" expense, within the definitions of those words that have become accepted.

On the income side of the book, as distinguished from the deductions, there are certain points to bear in mind. First, "gifts" are not income and need not be reported. Unlike scholarships for degree candidates, however, grants or fellowships are generally not considered as gifts and must be reported. Some unsought for prizes, though, need not be reported as income. Grants, fellowships and scholarships are given special treatment in the Internal Revenue Code, such as the exclusion from reportable income of the first $300 of each month's portion of a government or foundation fellowship for research. The instructions accompanying the returns call attention to the applicable provisions, which must be examined in the light of each individual situation.

## International Activities

As soon as a professor goes abroad during his period of leave (or for a summer trip) new considerations may enter the picture. He must find out whether he has any liability for taxes imposed by the country where he will be teaching or studying. Frequently, treaties aimed at avoiding double taxation will apply to his situation. If he does have to pay taxes abroad, he may find that his own country makes allowance for such payments in its own tax laws.

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# ACLS AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

The ACLS has now completed the fourth year of its program designed to assist in the encouragement of American studies in the universities of Western Europe. This program has been made possible through a five-year grant from The Ford Foundation.

The Council is very pleased to announce receipt of an additional grant of $3,100,000.00 from The Ford Foundation to continue its American Studies Program in Europe for an additional five years, and to expand those activities to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Council is also very pleased to announce receipt of a grant of $160,000.00 from The Carnegie Corporation of New York for a three-year program of fellowships to be awarded to scholars from Australia and New Zealand wishing to undertake advanced research in the United States on any aspect of American Studies.

These two new grants will become operative with the academic year 1966-67.

## Recent Grants to European Institutions

In previous years the ACLS, under its American Studies Program has awarded grants to twenty-eight institutions in ten countries in Western Europe. The following additional grants have now been made:

### THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM:

### CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES, ROME:

A contribution of $10,000.00 toward the costs of compiling a Union Catalogue of the holdings in American Studies in the major libraries of Florence, with the Catalogue to be integrated with the completed Union Catalogue of similar holdings in the major libraries of Rome.

An offer of a total of $10,000.00 on a matching basis to expand the Center's Nelson Gay Library holdings in American history and American literature.

### UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA:

### EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES:

A contribution of $4,000.00 to the Association for the costs in preparing a two-volume handbook in American Studies for use in secondary schools and introductory university courses.

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UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN:

An offer to match, up to a total of $7,500.00, University budget allocations, for an expansion in the University's library holdings in American history and civilization.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE:

UNIVERSITY OF LUND:

UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER:

An offer to match, up to a total of $15,000.00, University allocations for an expansion in the University library holdings in American literature.

UNIVERSITY OF NIJMEGEN:

An offer to match, up to a total of $3,000.00, University budget allocations for an expansion in the University library holdings in American literature.

TURIN POLYTECHNIC:

### European Fellowship Competition in American Studies 1965-66

The competition for fellowships awarded to European scholars for 1965-66 has now been concluded. Applications were reviewed by the following committees:

Screening Committee in Economics, Geography, Government, Law, and Sociology:

Professor René König, University of Cologne

Professor Antonio La Pergola, University of Padua

Professor J. Marczewski, University of Paris

Mr. R. H. Pear, London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor W. F. William-Olsson, Stockholm School of Economics

Screening Committee in Art History, History, Literature, and Philosophy:

Professor Marcus Cunliffe, University of Sussex

Professor Alvar Ellegard, University of Gothenburg

Professor Oiva Ketonen, University of Helsinki

Professor Agostino Lombardo, University of Milan

Professor Max Silberschmidt, University of Zürich

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### Selection Committee:

Candidates selected, with their present position, research project, and proposed affiliation are:

David K. Adams, Lecturer in American History at the University of Keele; England: Executive leadership and formulation of a policy towards Europe during the first administration, 1933-37, of Franklin D. Roosevelt. First semester, George Washington University; second semester, to be arranged.

Carla Bianco di Fazio, Professor of Literature, Liceo Josè Artigas, Rome, and Assistant at the Institute of Folklore, University of Rome: Folklore acculturation among certain groups of Italo-Americans. Indiana University.

Peter J. G. Bohm, *Biträdande Lärare* in Economics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden: Aspects of the role of American banking and government in resource allocation. Harvard University (Grant extended to December 15, 1965).

Malcolm S. Bradbury, Lecturer in English (American) Literature, University of Birmingham, England: American literary expatriates, 1800-1865; American novel, post-1945. Harvard University.

Keith M. Drake, Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland: Marriage ages of first generation immigrants to the U.S. University of Wisconsin.

Harold Haefner, *Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter* in Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland: High altitude settlement and land utilization of the Pacific Northwest. University of California, Los Angeles.

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Max Kaase, *Wissenschaftlicher Assistent* in Political Science at Mannheim
Wirtschaftshochschule, Germany: Primary contacts and mass media
influences in recent U.S. presidential elections. University of Michigan.

Karl H. Kunert, *Lehrbeauftragter* in Law at the University of Bonn, Ger-
many: Comparative study of American and Continental laws of evi-
dence. Harvard University.

Brita Lindberg, *Universitetslektor* in American Literature at the Univer-
sity of Uppsala, Sweden: Emily Dickinson, studies in matter and form.
Harvard University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Duncan J. MacLeod, Graduate student, Churchill College, Cambridge
University, England: Late 18th-century American racial attitudes and
beliefs. Princeton University.

Guenter E. Moltmann, Professor of History, Pädagogische Hochschule of Bielefeld, and *Lehrbeauftragter* in American History, University of Hamburg, Germany: American-German relations at the time of the mid-19th century revolutions in Europe. University of Chicago.

Eric N. Mottram, Lecturer in American Literature, King's College, Uni-
versity of London, England: Self-conscious relationships between the
individual and the community as instanced in American writing. New
York University.

Bo Ohlström, *Amanuens* in Sociology, University of Uppsala, Sweden: The role and influence of American chief editors. Stanford University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

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Orm H. Øverland, Graduate student, University of Oslo, Norway: James Fenimore Cooper's *The Prairie*. Yale University.

Jürgen Paul, *Wissenschaftlicher Assistent* in Art History, University of Cologne, Germany: 19th-century American architectural history and town planning. Columbia University.

Klaus Poenicke, *Ahademischer Rat* in American Literature, Free University of Berlin: The “sublime” in 19th-century American literature. Yale University (Grant extended to March 1, 1966).

Manuel Ramirez Jimenez, Assistant professor in constitutional law, Uni-
versity of Granada, Spain: American voting behavior. Columbia Univer-
sity.

Per E. Seyersted, Researcher in American Literature, University of Oslo, Norway: Kate Chopin, her life and her works. Harvard University (Grant renewed to July 1, 1966).

Howard R. Temperley, Lecturer in American History and Institutions, University of Manchester, England: Anglo-American anti-slavery connections, 1833-1868. Brown University.

Per E. Törnqvist, Researcher and Instructor in Comparative Literature, University of Uppsala, Sweden: Eugene O'Neill's super-naturalism. Yale University.

Yola L. G. Verhasselt, FNRS Aspirant in geography, University of Brussels, Belgium: A geographical study of the border region between the U.S. and Mexico. Texas Western College.

John D. Walsh, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Cambridge University, England: Revivalism in American religious history. Brown University.

Stig A. Wandén, Graduate student in philosophy, Lund University, Sweden: American pragmatism. Harvard University (Grant extended to December 1, 1965).

Göran V. Widebäck, *Universitetslektor* in Business Administration, Uni-
versity of Lund: Budgetary planning in American government and eco-
nomic institutions. First semester, University of California at Berkeley;
second semester, to be arranged.

GRANTS-IN-AID

The ACLS in a national competition has awarded Grants-in-Aid to fifty-three scholars for post-doctoral research in the humanities and related

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social sciences. The recipients are associated with thirty-eight colleges and universities and three other institutions in eighteen states and Canada.

Those appointed, their departments, institutions, and research projects are:

James H. Beck, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: Jacopo della Quercia's sculpture on the portal of San Petronio and his other works in Bologna.

Paul H. Brainard, Department of Music, Brandeis University: The Bach manuscripts at Berlin, Marburg, and Tübingen.

Howard M. Brown, Department of Music, University of Chicago: Publication subsidy: *Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography*.

Gerard E. Caspary, Department of History, Smith College: Study of the interrelationship between Sacred Kingship and the Constitutional position of the King in 14th century England.

Alexander B. Chambers, Department of English, Tulane University: An edition of Dryden's translations of Juvenal and Persius.

David R. Clark, Department of English, University of Massachusetts: Studies in the works of W. B. Yeats.

Paul M. Clogan, Department of English, Duke University: A study of medieval and renaissance Latin commentaries on Statius.

Marvin L. Colker, Department of Classics, University of Virginia: A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in the Library of the University of Dublin.

Melvyn Dubofsky, Department of History, Northern Illinois University: The Industrial Workers of the World in American history.

Fritz T. Epstein, Department of History, Indiana University: A history of German research on Russia and Eastern Europe, 1900-45.

John A. Finch, Department of English, Cornell University: An analytical index to the manuscripts of Wordsworth's poems.

Stephen Foltiny, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study: The bronze and early iron age of Southeastern Europe and its relationships.

Charles R. Forker, Department of English, Indiana University: An annotated, critically evaluative bibliography of John Webster and Cyril Tourneur.

Albert B. Friedman, Department of English, Claremont Graduate School: The oral culture of the Middle Ages.

Montgomery Furth, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles: Notes on eleatic ontology; Aristotle and Platonic universals.

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Norman Golb, Department of Oriental Languages, University of Chicago: Aspects of the history and culture of the Jews of Medieval Egypt.

Louis R. Harlan, Department of History, University of Cincinnati: A critical biography of Booker T. Washington.

Evelyn B. Harrison, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: A catalogue of sculpture of the 5th and 4th centuries from the Athenian Agora.

Howard Hibbard, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: Study of drawings by Carlo Maderno (1556-1629).

Hamlin Hill, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley: An edition of Mark Twain's previously unpublished business correspondence, 1867-93.

William M. Hinkle, Department of Art, Hunter College, The City University of New York: Studies in medieval iconography.

Raymond M. Immerwahr, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Washington: The ascending Romantic view.

Peter d'A. Jones, Department of History, Smith College: The economics of conscience: Christian socialism in England, 1880-1914.

Victor A. Lowe, Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University: A biographical study of Alfred North Whitehead.

Irving Lowens, Reference Section, Music Division, The Library of Congress: A bibliography of American songsters published in the United States before 1821.

Richard Lowitt, Department of History, Connecticut College: A biography of George W. Norris (1861-1944).

Albert M. Lyles, Department of English, University of Tennessee: An edition of Richard Allestree's *The Whole Duty of Man*.

Edward L. Margolies, Department of English, Staten Island Community College: The collected letters of Richard Wright.

George C. Miles, The American Numismatic Society: St. Luke of Steiris.

Ernest C. Mossner, Department of English, University of Texas: The life and correspondence of Adam Smith.

Frederick C. Neumann, Department of Music, University of Richmond: Problems of rhythm and ornamentation in J. S. Bach's music.

Erika Ostrovsky, Department of Romance Languages, New York University: The stylistic aspects of the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

James E. Packer, Department of History, San Fernando Valley State College: The *insulae* of Imperial Ostia.

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