Senior Fellowships

SENIOR Fellowships, granting the recipients a year of independent study, have been awarded to seven members of the Class of 1953. Rated among the highest honors granted to undergraduates by the College, the Senior Fellowships allow the seniors chosen "all the freedom they are capable of using profitably within the framework, but not necessarily within the conventional curriculum, of the four-year undergraduate College."

The seven men receiving the fellowships for 1952-53 and their projects are: Donald P. Hansen, Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., who will make a study of the civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia; Leonard W. Johnson, Seattle, Wash., who plans to do research on the relation between the poetry and music of the French Renaissance; Stanley H. Kimmel, Paterson, N. J., who will make an historical analysis of the development of American humor; Edward S. Klima, Cleveland, O., who will study certain basic linguistic phenomena as they appear in a fe.w representative Indo-European languages; Howard L. Koonce, Pueblo, Colo., who has taken as his subject, the logic of music; Thomas E. Nelson, Hanover, N. H., who will study the role of structure—emotional, verbal, conceptualin relation to the problem of changing human nature; and Edward M. Potoker, Newark, N. J., who plans to study naturalism in twentieth-century American fiction.