GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIPS

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, established by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to a son who died in 1922, offers a limited number of fellowships, tenable abroad under the freest possible conditions for research in any field of knowledge and for creative work in any of the fine arts, including music.

The Foundation plans to maintain annually approximately fifty Fellows, the fellowships being intended for men and women of high intellectual and personal qualifications who have already demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or unusual creative ability in the fine arts. Although there are no definite" age limits prescribed it is expected that all Fellows will be not younger than twenty-five and not older than thirty-five years. The stipend will not normally exceed $2,500.00 for a year of twelve months.

Applications for fellowships must be made in writing on or before November 15, 1927, by the candidates themselves in the prescribed form, addressed to Henry Allen Moe, Secretary, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2300 Pershing Square Building, New York City. Final selections of Fellows for 1928-29 will be made early in March, 1928. Application forms will be mailed by the Secretary upon request.

Dartmouth College has been twice represented among the holders of fellowships, Ralph A. Sawyer 'l5, Assistant Professor of Physics at ihe University of Michigan, has been studying at the Imperial Physico-technical Institute at Charlottenburg, Germany, during the last year, engaged in a study of spectral series relations in extreme ultra-violet metallic spectra and the correlation of the results with modern theories of atomic structure.

Leonard D. White 'l4, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, has been appointed to a fellowship for six months from June, 1927, for a study of the trade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great Britain.