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FELLOWSHIP AWARDED TO HAM FOR ECONOMIC STUDY

Receives Appointment From Social Science Council--Will Spend Year in Europe

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The Social Science Research Council announced yesterday the appointment of 21 Research Fellows for the year 1928-29, of which one was awarded to W. T. Ham, A.M. '24, in Economics.

He will spend his year in Europe, and his subject of study will be "Employment Relations in the Construction Industries of England, Germany, and France."

Ham attended the Business School in 1920-21, received his M.A. in 1924, and his Ph.D. in 1926.

These fellowships are in the field of Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership in the light of psychiatry and psychology: a psychologist is going to England and the Continent to study current work in the psychology of industry with particular reference to industrial morale.

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