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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 4

In several respects a fellowship granted under the Commonwealth Fund, an honour recently granted Mr Jules Malfroy, of Wellington, is akin to a Rhodes scholarship; both offer to students of outstanding ability opportunities for travel and wider study. The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 by a gift of £2,000,000, subsequently increased to about £8,000,000 by tho late Mrs Stephen V. Harkness, and is administered in New York by a board of directors, of whom her son, Mr Edward S. Harkness, is president. The fund is being employed in several philanthropic activities. Three years ago it established an annual award of Fellowship for study at American universities and travel in the United States for graduates of British universities selected by a British committee of distinguished personnel, of which the Prince of Wales is honorary chairman and Sir Walter Buchanaif-Riddell, principal of Hertford College, Oxford, is chairman. Twenty Fellowships were awarded in 1925 and 1926; last year three more were awarded to graduates of universities in the British Dominions, and this year two more were added for graduates in the British -Colonial service. The Fellowships are tenable for two years, and are worth about £6OO a year." They are open to unmarried candidates, under 30 years of age, and, in addition to academic qualifications, the committee of award character, ability, qualities of leadership, health, and general fitness. There were 216 candidates in 1925, 178 in 1926, and 120 last year.