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IT is announced in the New York Herald Tribune that the Society of Fellows Foundation at Harvard University, which was established by the late Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard from 1909 until 1933, was also endowed by him with a fund of 2,000,000 dollars. Dr. Lowell made the gift anonymously, directing that his name was not to be divulged until after his death, when the fund was to be named after his wife, Anna Parker Lowell. By the terms of the Foundation, the principal of the fund is kept intact and the income used to enable a small number of men selected for their promise of making notable contributions to knowledge to devote their whole time to productive scholarship. The selected men are known as 'junior fellows' and receive tuition and accommodation privileges and 1,250-1,500 dollars a year. By this announcement, it is known that Harvard is indebted to Dr. Lowell not only for much of its present reputation and indirectly for its separate colleges, but also for its well-known fellowships. Dr. Lowell died on January 6, aged eighty-six (see NATUBB, Feb. 13, p. 190).
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Society of Fellows Foundation at Harvard. Nature 151, 472 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151472c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151472c0