DeWitt Hendee Smith of 44 East 61st Street, New York City, graduate of Princeton in the Class of 1926, was elected Rhodes Scholar-at-large for the United States at a meeting held in New York December 23rd. The Committee of Selection consisted of F. P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation, Chairman, L. C. Hull, Jr., Michigan and Brasenose, '07, F. F. Russell, New York and Brasenose, '11, W. C. Davison, New York and Merton, '13, and Henry Allen Moe, 1919 Rhodes Scholar-at-large. Mr. Smith is at present a student in the Columbia University Medical School. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, received highest honors in Biology on his graduation at Princeton, and was a member of the 1925 Princeton crew. W 1926-1928 E give below the names and in a separate list the addresses of the twenty Commonwealth Fund Fellows who came into residence at different American Universities during the past autumn: The addresses are as follows: A. Martin Adamson, 2314 Channing Way, Berkeley, California. Frank P. Chambers, 48 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Miss Margaret E. Cranswick, Whittier Hall, 1230 Amsterdam Avenue, New York. Robert Fisher, 888 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut. Miss Isabella Gordon, c/o Dean Mary Yost, Stanford University, California or Hopkins Marine Laboratory, Pacific Grove. Miss Hilda A. C. Green, 4636 Hazel Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Edward P. Mumford, 2336 Channing Way, Berkeley, California. Norman C. Wright, Dep't of Dairy Industry, Cornell University, Ithaca, Of the Fellows who arrived in 1925 and whose names were reported in the OXONIAN of last April, three have now returned to England. The present addresses of the other seventeen, now in their second year of residence, are as follows: Dr. Samuel Andrews, 2408 South Atherton Street, Berkeley, California. Pelham H. Box, 1108 West Oregon Street, Urbana, Champaign County, Ill. Frederick M. Brewer, Baker Laboratories, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. William G. Campbell, University Club, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. James Craik, Baker Laboratories, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Noel F. Hall, Graduate College, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Matthew B. Hodge, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. S. Raeburn Kirk, 714 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut Dr. Bernard G. Scholefield, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. George E. Stephenson, University Club, Madison, Wisconsin. John Williamson, Blake Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Since the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships are in a very direct sense a reciprocation of the Rhodes Scholarships, it is certain that old Rhodes Scholars will welcome any opportunity to be of service to the Fellows in this country. In an article in the World's Work (July, 1926) entitled "Continuing the Rhodes Scholar Idea" Colonel Oscar N. Solbert, who served as military attaché in London after the war and accompanied the Prince of Wales on his visit through this country two years ago, gives interesting first-hand information concerning the origin of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship plan in the minds of Mr. Edward S. Harkness and the Prince of Wales. He adds: "Although the underlying principles remain the same, the credit for the plan adopted should be largely given to Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College and American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust. From his long experience with the Rhodes Scholarships, Dr. Aydelotte had worked out a carefully devised plan for a reciprocal project to bring British students to the United States. This plan had been discussed in detail with representatives of British universities and, with certain minor modifications made in accordance with the wishes of the directors, formed the basis of the final plan adopted by the Commonwealth Fund.' We Te are gratified by this remark in a letter from the New York office of the Commonwealth Fund: "Many of the Fellows speak with enthusiasm of their reception by Rhodes Scholars in different parts of the country." |