Foreign Scholars Kept Here by War

Although the total effect of the European war on Harvard registration cannot be learned until the final returns are tabulated sometime next week, the fate of one group of students, the holders of fellowships abroad, is already known.

Two weeks ago the University instructed all such Fellows who had not left for Europe "to cancel their passages for Europe unless in exceptional cases there appear to be assurances that the objects of their study abroad can be fulfilled."

Of the ten members of last year's graduating class who were awarded special grants for foreign study, five have returned from Europe; two had not yet left when war broke out, and will not take up their Fellowships; one who had already reached Europe is returning; and the whereabouts of two are as yet unknown.

Five In Europe

According to the still incomplete information in the hands of the Dean's Office in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of the 36 holders of foreign Fellowships in that School, five are believed to be still in Europe.

While all Rhodes scholarships for this year have been cancelled, and while Cambridge will take no American Fellows, it is believed that Oxford will take one or two.

No Harvard students are known to have been on board the Athenia when it was sunk, although one undergraduate cancelled his passage at the last minute.