Two refugee students have been awarded scholarships for study at Harvard beginning this semester, and other refugees will be chosen later as scholarship holders for the academic year beginning next September, the University announced today.

The present recipients are Karl W. Deutsch, age 25, a refugee from the Sudeten area in Czechoslovakia, who received a doctor's degree in law and political science with high honors from Charles University, Prague, in 1938, and Kurt Herzfeld, age 20, a refugee from Austria, who studied a year at the University of Vienna. Both arrived in this country a few months ago. Deutsch will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, specializing in economics and political science, and Herzfeld will be an undergraduate in the College, specializing in economics.

During the past two months the Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate committee. The award of these scholarships is administered by the Committee on General Scholarships in the University.