Graduate Fellowships

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS for advanced study next year have been awarded to three seniors and two recent graduates of the College, it was announced on March 19 by President Hopkins. Recipients of these fellowships, each carrying a grant of $900, are Peter Jacobsen Jr. '41 of Lake Lillian, Minn.; Richard B. McCornack '41 of Chicago, I11.; Merle L. Perkins '41 of West Lebanon, N. H.; Edward M. Fritz '40 of Baltimore, Md.; and Frank C. Newman '38 of South Pasadena, Calif.

Jacobsen, winner of the Charles O. Miller Jr. Fellowship, will study geophysics at the California Institute of Technology next year; McCornack, recipient of the Fred DeMerritte Barker Fellowship, will study Latin American history at the University of Chicago; and Perkins, winner of the Henry Elijah Parker Fellowship, will study Romance languages at Brown University. Fritz will use the Richard Crawford Campbell Jr. Fellowship to study English at the University of Chicago, and Newman, as the first recipient of the new James K. Colby Memorial Fellowship, will study law and public administration at Columbia University.

The new James K. Colby Memorial Fellowship is based upon a fund of $20,000, given by bequest of the late Prof. James F. Colby '72, who was Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science from 1885 to 1916 and Professor Emeritus until his death, as a memorial to his father, James K. Colby of the Class of 1838. Preference in its award is given to graduates who intend to fit themselves to teach law and political science or to enter the public service.