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Of the 20 honor men graduates of British universities announced in London as having been awarded Commonwealth Fund Fellowships to come to the United States next fall for two year's study in American universities four will come to Harvard. They are James McAlston, from the University of Edinburg; to study bacteriology; Frederick N. W. Bateson, from Oxford University, to study 18th century drama; Reginald Jackson, from the University of Sidney, and Oxford, to study philosophy; and Eric Francis Nash, Oxford, to study economics.
This number exceeds that enrolling in any other American university in 1927 Besides these, three of the 20 honor men will come to Columbia, two each to Princeton, Pennsylvania, and John Hopkins, and the remaining seven will go to seven different American educational institutions. Three women students have this year been awarded fellowships and two will go to Yale and one to Clark University.
This is the third annual group of Commonwealth Fund awards. Counting the new students with the 40 Commonwealth Fund Fellows now in this country, the total number is 63 of whom ten have elected to work at Harvard.
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