NEW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDED

At the last meeting of the Corporation it was voted to accept a gift of $24,782, contributed by 74 persons, many of them graduates of the University, to establish a fellowship in memory of Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, to be known as the Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship.

Chapman was a student in the Ecoledes Beaux Arts in Paris at the time of the outbreak of the European war. He first enlisted in the Foreign Legion, and later was transferred to the Flying Corps of the French Army. He was killed in action over Verdun on June 23, 1916.

The following is a translation of the "citation" which appeared in the French Journal Official:

"Chapman (Victor) 124th Aerial Squadron, sergeant pilot in the fighting section, a model of audacity, energy and initiative, and the admiration of his companions of the Squadron, and who, though on the 17th of June seriously wounded in the head, refused to be relieved from duty. A few days thereafter he made a dashing attack upon several aircraft and in the course of the struggle met a glorious death."

The income of the fellowship which has just been given is to be awarded annually to a French student for study in the University. The donors suggest that the incumbent be nominated from year to year by a committee of French scholars, formed from those who are or who have been French exchange professors at the University, and that to them be added the president of the Autour du Monde Club in Paris.

Through this memorial the subscribers hope to make an additional link between France and the United States, and to give an expression of the intellectual debt which this country owes to France.