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In the Graduate Schools

Swiss and Hungarian Receive Annual International Awards

The importance of the Harvard Law School as an international as well as a national institution was brought again into the foreground yesterday by the announcement of the choice of a Swiss and a Hungarian as the beneficiaries of the Pugsley Scholarships.

Will Benefit by Increase

These men will benefit by the increase in the scholarships of which Mr. Pugsley, a graduate of the Harvard Law School authorities. Mr. Pugsley, in a recent letter explains that the Scholarship has been increased to $300.

In the past the Pugsley Scholarships have been held by many prominent scholars, whose records before their arrival at Harvard and while in the Law School have been in existence only since 1920 four of the holders of the foreign graduate scholarships are now professors, one, Theodore F. T. Plucknett, is now on the faculty of the Harvard Law School as Assistant Professor of Legal History.

The holders have come from Greece, France, Ireland, Switzerland, England and Hungary. At the present time Pierre Lepaulle, hold of the scholarship in 1921-22 is a professor of Comparative Law in the University of Paris. J. Howard Toelle, holder in 1924-25, is a Professor of Law in the University of Montana, and Horace E. Read, holder of the International Law Scholarship if Professor of Law at Dalhousie, the University of Halifax.

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