Council Gives Funds to Harvard Professors For Studies in Philosophy, Language, Music

The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded Fellowships to four Harvard professors for post-doctoral research in the humanities and related social sciences.

Rogers G. Albritton, associate professor of Philosophy, is studying the metaphysics of Aristotle and the later philosophy of Wittgenstein.

Wendell V. Clausen, professor of Greek and Latin, is comparing Latin Poetry with Hellenistic Greek poetry, while Morton G. White, Professor of philosophy, has received the grant for research in "the language of history and the foundations of historical knowledge."

In the Music Department, Nino Pirrotta, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Emeritus, is tracing Italian musical practice from Dante's to Bembo's times.

Robert L. Wolff, professor of History, was a member of the committee that selected the scholars for fellowships; the committee included professors from Yale, Columbia, N.Y.U., and other colleges throughout the United States.