Six Harvard Seniors Win 1968 Rhodes Scholarships

Six Harvard seniors were named 1968 Rhodes Scholars yesterday.

Alan D. Bersin, of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; William A. Fletcher, of Kirkland House and Seattle, Wash.; Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga.; Frederick N. Ris of Eliot House and Denver, Colo.; David A Samuels, of Eliot House and Hollywood, Fla.; and Thomas S. Williamson Jr., of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., are recipients of the scholarship.

Yale tried Harvard for the number of scholarships awarded while Dartmouth claimed three, and Princeton got two.

The selection of six students from Harvard is a comeback from last year when no members of the class of '67 received Rhodes scholarships.

The class of '66 had taken a record-breaking 10 scholarships the year before and many University officials speculated that pressure was being put on the Rhodes Committees to distribute the award among other institutions and not to allow Harvard to dominate the competition.

"We're back in the running again," Eugene Kinasewich '64, assistant dean of the College, commented last night. "There was no pressure whatsoever put on the Scholarship Committees to elect more Harvard boys this year, though," he said. "This is a good class, more in line with the kind of people the Committee was probably looking for."

Each winner will receive $2800 a year to support him for two or three years at Oxford University in England.

The scholarships, set up under the will of Cecil Rhodes in 1903, are given annually to 32 unmarried students between the ages of 18 and 24 for study in their own field at Oxford.

The recipients are chosen for literary and scholastic achievement, good citizenship, and "physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports."

The 1967 awards went to students in 27 states and brings the total number of Rhodes scholars since the creation of the scholarship program to 1,482.