Senior Fellowships Awarded to Five
President Ernest Martin Hopkins has recently announced the names of the five Dartmouth juniors of intellectual distinction who will next year hold senior fellowships. This award has been newly created and was established by the trustees of the College at a meeting a few weeks ago. A marked departure from customary curriculum requirements, the senior fellows are not required to attend any classes, there are no examinations and no tuition charges for them. They are subject to no rules or regulations except such general ones as are incidental to being members of the College in good standing.
The appointees to these coveted fellowships are: Henry Stevens Embree of Chicago, Illinois; John French, Jr., of Greenwich, Connecticut; Jerome Pearre of Pontiac, Illinois; Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller of New York, New York; and John Martin Toland of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Since the announcement of the new fellowships was made in April speculation has been rife on the campus as to the probable holders of the awards for the next year. It is evident that President Hopkins and the committee advisory to him have used the scholastic standing of candidates as an all-important gauge in selecting the 1929-30 fellows. Each of the appointees is an exceptionally high ranking student. Participation in campus activities is prominent in the college records of some of the men chosen and is largely lacking in the careers of others. French is editor-in-chief of The Daily Dartmouth and is president of Palaeopitus, student honorary and governing body. Rockefeller is also a member of Palaeopitus, is editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Pictorial, is a member of the soccer team, and is president of The Arts. Embree has taken part in Dartmouth dramatics. But Pearre is not prominent in outside activities and Toland has confined his efforts almost entirely to studies. From the diversified activities and interests of the newly appointed fellows it is apparent that scholastic interest and achievement have been this year prerequisite for appointment All are honors students. Embree is majoring. in English, although as a fellow he may next year choose his subjects at will. French has this year done honors work in Political Science, Pearre in History, Rockefeller in Economics, and Toland in Greek and Latin.
The purpose of the senior fellowships, as expressed in a vote of the Dartmouth trustees is that "in order that added stimulus may be given to the genuine spirit of scholarly attainment in undergraduate life and that the cultural motives of the liberal arts college may be emphasized; and in order that the tendencies of the honors courses toward freedom from routine requirements may be carried to further development in the cases of men outstandingly competent to utilize such freedom; and further, that illustration may be given in the undergraduate body that the acquisition of learning is made possible largely by individual search and in but minor degree by institutional coercion."
