Eight College Scholars Win Travel Grants

Eight members of the Harvard faculty are among the 154 American and Canadian scholars, artists, composers, and writers who were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for next year, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation revealed last night.

John King Fairbank '29, professor of History, has been given an award for his work on Japanese historiography on China. Fairbank said last night that Western studies of China had been conducted mainly from documents and from a distance, while Japanese scholars have been closer at hand. Fairbank will travel through southeast Asia this summer and will work on his project while on sabbatical leave from Harvard.

Frye to Go Persia

Richard Nelson Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will travel to Persia to take presses and photographs of all available ancient Persian writings.

Other fellowship awards were given to Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies on the conflict of civilliberties and the doctrine of "reason of state," to Walter L. Hughes, assistant professor of Physical Chemistry, for his research on the specific groupings of purified proteins; and to Ruth N. Hubbard, research fellow, for studies in the biochemistry of human vision.

Also receiving awards were H. P. Hatch '93, professor emeritus, Episcopal Theological School, for work on New Testament manuscripts; Amado Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, for Spanish philological research; and Herbert Deickmann, associate, professor of Romance Languages, for studies on the development and structure of Diderot's thought.

The Foundation was established 26 years ago as a memorial to the late U.S. Senator Simon Guggenheim's son. It is intended to further the work of "scholars and creative workers in the arts who have demonstrated high ability." This year's fellowship awards total $568,000.