Intellectual cooperation and scholastic interchange between two nations are no longer novelties, and most of us know that there are a number of foundations, besides the Rhodes Scholarships, which provide the means whereby American students or teachers may study abroad or foreign scholars visit our institutions of learning. Most Harvard men know that the University, in one way or another, has taken a leading part in the movement. The latest news is, however, especially gratifying to Harvard men, because it shows the high estimation in which Harvard is held by students in the universities of Great Britain. Furthermore, the story concerns one of the most notable of American philanthropic foundations, the Commonwealth Fund; and it is significant that this great body, which may apply its wealth without restriction "for the welfare of mankind," has chosen as one of its major enterprises the maintenance of scholarships for British students in American universities.

Since 1925, when the Commonwealth Fellowships were established, 63 young men and women have come from the United Kingdom to the United States, of whom ten have chosen to study at Harvard, eight at Yale, eight at Columbia, and smaller numbers at other institutions. This year, four of twenty Common-wealth Fellows have chosen Harvard. The awards are made by a British Committee of Award, of which H. R. H. the Prince of Wales is honorary chairman and Sir Walter Buchanan-Riddell, Principal of Hetford College, Oxford, Chairman. So many applicants appeared for the first set of appointments that the committee at once established the equivalent of first-class honors as a minimum standard. These fellowships therefore assure the presence in this country of a highly selected group of British students, capable of using productively the best we have to give them and stimulating their American teachers and fellow students their best efforts. All of the Commonwealth Fellows are graduates or recognized universities of England, Scotland, Wales, or Ireland. Harvard Alumni Bulletin.