600 Fulbright Openings Available for Next Year

Applications for more than 600 Fulbright travelling fellowships in 1951-52 will be available today at Deans offices in the College and the graduate schools. John Monro '34 director of the University Fulbright Program said last night.

The student competition, open to all students who will have received the A.B. degree by next summer, will close October 31. A competition for 300 grants to faculty members who want to do advanced teaching or research abroad will also open here today and will last until October 15.

Winners of Fulbright scholarships may study a subject of their choosing in any one of 21 countries at the expense of the United States Government. The stipends, which cover tuition and a year's "normal" maintenance are paid for by the sale of Government war surplus in the involved foreign countries. Instead of taking money, the Government takes its debts in academic trade.

Fulbright scholarships in two countries, Korea and China, have been designated as "non-operative" this year.

The personal references section of the 39-page application blank has been enlarged and calls for more detailed information about applicants' characters, Monro pointed out. Apparently, the Government had discovered in three years of administrating the program that expert scholars did not always fulfill the ambassadorial functions of Fulbright Fellows.

Harvard Has Most

Ten percent of the Fellows selected in Washington last year came from Harvard. The year before, the University led the nation's colleges and universities in the number of Fulbrights granted to students of a single institution.

Other changes in this year's Fulbright regulations include a stipulation that at least two students in each state, attending a college in that state, must get fellowships.

Results of the Fulbright competition will be available one month earlier in this competition than in last year's, the State Department, which runs the program, has announced.