NINE PROFESSORS RECEIVE GRANTS

Announcement was made yesterday of the recipients of grants from the $250,000 fund given Harvard last January by the General Education Board, an institution supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, for research work in the humanities.

Nine grants to Harvard professors were voted from this fund, which is to be used over a period of five years, by the committee of five recently appointed to administer the yearly appropriations. The Division of Ancient Languages and the Division of Modern Languages are given aid in the publication of Harvard Studies in Philology. E. K. Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing a bibliography of English prose fiction.

J. L. Lowes, Professor of English, is given a sum of money to prepare an edition of the Gutch Memorandum Book in the British Museum, and to continue work on Chaucer and Coleridge, with the help of a research assistant.

Ford to Work on Two Projects

J. D. M. Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, receives grants for several projects, including the compiling of a bibliography of Spanish-American and Portuguese-American literature. He is enabled to secure photostats used in a grammar of Early French, clerical assistance in the study of Don Quixote, and aid in the publication of letters of John III of Portugal.

Hawkins Publishes Letters

Assistance is given R. L. Hawkins '03. Associate Professor of French, in the publication of hitherto unpublished-letters existent in America, from Frenchmen of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. F. S. Cawley '10. Assistant Professor of German, receives a grant for the publication of an Icelandic Saga: and Walter Silz '17, also Assistant Professor of German, is aided in the publication of work on the German Romanticists.