Fellowship Award

STEARNS MORSE IS WRITING A STUDY OF THREE NEW ENGLANDERS OF MARK

OF THE TWO AWARDS of the Alfred Knopf Fellowships in History and Biography made this year one went to a Dartmouth professor, Stearns Morse of the English Department. The award and the $2,500 prize money that is a part of it were presented to Professor Morse by the publishing house so that he "may devote himself to the intensive study and research which must of necessity underlie the production of an authoritative work in biography."

A Boston merchant in the China trade, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of the Clipper Ship Era; a railroad magnate of the Steam Age, John Murray Forbes; and an electrical engineer of the Electrical Age, Fred Stark Pearson are the three Yankees chosen by Mr. Morse to illustrate in their careers the influence of New England for three hundred years on the developing industry and commerce of the nation. Though generally almost unknown today, each of these New Englanders was a leading figure of his period, not only in business but in public service.

Professor Steams' book, to be called TheYankee Spirit, will be an all-New England production, written by a Yankee about Yankees. Mr. Stearns was born in Bath, N. H., received his schooling in New England and his degree in 1911 from Harvard.

AWARDED FELLOWSHIP by Knopf, Stearns Morse, Professor of English, is working on a biographical study of the Yankee spirit.