Guggenheim Fellows

Three Dartmouth graduates are listed

among the 132 scholars and artists who have received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 1946. All three men will devote themselves to the writing or completion of books in special fields. Dr. Harwood Lawrence Childs '19, Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will write a book on public opinion, based in part on the experience of the Office of War Information, with which he was connected during the war. Warren S. Tryon '23, Associate Professor of History at Simmons College, will write a history of the Boston publishing and bookselling house of Ticknor and Fields; and Dr. Maurice Mandelbaum '29, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, will complete a book entitled Studies in Ethical Theory.

Dr. Childs, who has been connected with the School of Public Opinion and International Affairs at Princeton, is an authority on propaganda. He is the author of An Introduction to PublicOpinion, written in 1940, and numerous other books and articles on this subject. In 1937-38 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the study of labor and capital in Germany. He received his M.A. at Dartmouth in 1921, his Ph.D. at Chicago in 1928.

Mr. Tryon, who took his M.A. degree at Harvard in 1924, has taught at the State University of lowa, Ohio State University, and Harvard. He is the author of various studies and articles.

Dr. Mandelbaum, who has been at Swarthmore since 1934, is the author of The Problem of Historical Knowledge (1938) in which he upholds the thesis that history can be written objectively. He is also the author of an article entitled, ' Can There Be a Philosophy of History," which appeared in the American Scholar. Dr. Mandelbaum took his M.A. degree at Dartmouth, his Ph.D. at Yale; he also studied at Harvard, and in 1931-32 at the University of Berlin.