Education: Commonwealth Scholarships

The Commonwealth Fund, established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness of Manhattan, announced last week the names of 23 honor graduates of British universities, to whom it has awarded fellowships amounting to $125,000 for two years’ study in U. S. universities.

The Britishers will pursue a large variety of subjects in the U. S.—ranging from bacteriology to the Scottish influence in 18th Century America, from agricultural geography to city planning, from economics to inter-racial problems, from law to electrochemistry. They will scatter themselves at many a university: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Clark (at Worcester, Mass.), Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Stanford.

This is in sharp contrast to U. S. students in Great Britain, who concentrate at Oxford and Cambridge, chiefly for the study of the classics, English literature, law and theology.