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 OF THE 
 
 National Research 
 Council 
 
 distribution of graduate fellowships and scholarships 
 between the arts and the sciences 
 
 Compiled by Calue Hull and Clarence J. West 
 
 Published in School and Society 
 April 15, 1922, Vol. XV, No. 381, Pages 424-428
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLAR- 
 SHIPS BETWEEN THE ARTS AND THE SCIENCES 
 
 Di'RiNTi a survoy of various ediitiitioiial in- 
 stitutions by the Educational Relations Divi- 
 sion of the National Research Council, it seemed 
 desirable to ascertain the relative support given 
 to the arts and the sciences in our universities. 
 One indication of this support may be found 
 in the number of felllowships granted in each 
 of these two fields. At the suggestion of Pro- 
 fessor C. E. McClung, the Research Informa- 
 tion Service requested twelve of our leading 
 universities to furnish information concerning 
 the subject distribution of fellowships and 
 scholarships awarded in the graduate school of 
 arts and sciences or its equivalent during the 
 past five years. Due to a misunderstanding, 
 this five year period was not uniform for all of 
 
 TABLE I 
 
 Distribution' of Fellowships and Scholar- 
 ships HY Years 
 UNIVERSITY 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 
 
 California 41 28 30 35 43 
 
 Chicago 103 6G 93 95 69 
 
 Columbia 65 61 14 31 61 
 
 Cornell 41 41 41 41 41 41 
 
 Harvard 129 76 78 125 130 
 
 Illinois 80 50 50 59 51 
 
 Johns Hopkins .... 76 72 58 68 62 
 
 Michigan 41 26 23 30 38 
 
 Pennsylvania 71 62.5 46.5 55.5 61.5 .... 
 
 Stanford 2 2 5 10 10 
 
 Wisconsin 65 72 58 86 
 
 Yale 82 58 55 94 96 
 
 the returns and complete data are awailable only 
 for the four collegiate years 191G, 1917, 1918, 
 and 1919. 
 
 The twelve universities listed in Table I re- 
 ported 3,377 fellowships. This table shows the 
 distribution by years. The halves appearing in 
 this and the following tables are due to the 
 practice of the University of Pennsylvania in 
 sometimes dividing the university fellowships 
 (providing simply for the remission of tuition 
 fees) into halves, in order to aid certain teach- 
 ers or students who can not carry a suflicient 
 amount of work to enable them to hold a full 
 fellowship. 
 
 The distribution between the arts and the 
 sciences is given in Table II. Harvard has the 
 largest number of fellowships during this 
 perkid, 538. Chicago follows with 406, Yale 
 has 385, Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins 336 
 each; the others have less than 300. 
 
 TABLE II 
 Distribution or Fellowships and Scholarships 
 
 Between Arts and Sciences 
 university arts sciences total 
 
 PURE applied 
 
 California 77 64 36 177 
 
 Chicago 201 205 .... 400 
 
 Columbia 138 73 6 217 
 
 Cornell 110 68 30 208 
 
 Harvard 385 153 538 
 
 Illinois 148 121 21 290 
 
 J ohns H opkins .... 157 179 .... 336 
 
 MicTTiiyitn 58 73 27 158 
 
 Pennsylvania 201.5 93.5 2 297 
 
 Stanford 10 18 1 29 
 
 Wisconsin 197 88 51 336 
 
 Yale 210 153 22 385 
 
 Totals 1,892.5 1,288.5 196 3,377 
 
 In the arts Harvard also leads with 385 fel- 
 lowships; Yale has 210 and Pennsylvania and 
 Chicago tie for third place with 201 each. In 
 the sciences Chicago leads with 205, with Johns 
 Hopkins second, 179, while Yale follows with 
 175 and Harvard with 153. The order for the 
 applied sciences is: Wisconsin 51, California 
 36, Cornell 30, Michigan 27, Yale 22, and Illi- 
 nois 21. 
 
 The distribution by individual subjects for 
 the five year period is shown in Table III. A 
 summary of Table III follows: 
 
 A. — Arts — Architecture, 10; ancient lan- 
 guages, 250; English and modern languages, 
 615.5; philology, 4; philosophy, 197.5; educa- 
 tion, 80; fine arts, 17; manual arts, 5; history, 
 328; economics, 171.5; home economics, 21; 
 political science, 153; sociology, 40. 
 
 B. — Pure Sciences — Astronomy, 28; archaeo- 
 logy, 20; biology, 400.5; chemistry, 365; geo- 
 graphy, 12; geology, 104; mathematics, 145; 
 physics, 152.5 psychology, 63.5.
 
 SCHOOL AND SOCIETY 
 
 TABLE 111— Continued 
 Distribution of Fellowships and Scholarships by Subject 
 
 Chemistry 
 
 Geography 
 
 Physiogeography 
 
 Total 
 
 Geology 
 
 Mathematics 
 
 Physics 
 
 Psychology 
 
 See also Philosophy 
 and psychology 
 
 under A. Arts 
 
 TOTAL FOR PUKE 
 SCIENCES 
 
 C. APPLIED 
 SCIENCES 
 
 Agriculture -• 
 
 Agricultural bacteri- 
 ology 
 
 Agricultural chemistry 
 Agricultural economics 
 Agricultural education 
 
 Agronomy 
 
 Animal husbandry 
 
 Dairy husbandry 
 
 Horticulture 
 
 Soils 
 
 Total 
 
 Ceramics 
 
 Engineering . 
 Architectural 
 
 engi- 
 
 neering 
 
 Chemical engineering 
 
 Civil engineering 
 
 Electrical engineering 
 Highway engineering 
 Hydraulic engineering 
 Mechanical engineer- 
 ing 
 
 Mechanical and elec- 
 trical engineering.... 
 Steam and gas engi- 
 neering 
 
 Total 
 
 Medicine 
 
 Public health 
 
 Research medicine 
 
 Total 
 
 Pharmacy 
 
 TOTAL IN AP- 
 PLIED SCIENCES 
 
 1915-16 
 
 17 
 
 1916-17 
 
 55 
 
 1 
 19 
 31 
 32 1/2 
 11 
 
 242 
 
 1917-18 
 
 16 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 8 
 5 
 1 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 23 
 1 
 1 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 43 
 
 53 
 2 
 
 2 
 25 
 25 
 32 
 12 
 
 252 
 
 14 
 1 
 1 
 
 18 
 4 
 
 4 
 1 
 
 38 
 
 1918-19 
 
 1919-20 
 
 68 
 2 
 
 68 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 29 
 
 191/2 
 
 27% 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 198 
 
 281 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 2 
 3 
 
 "2 
 
 
 "i 
 1 
 
 1 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 16 
 
 "2 
 3 
 
 "3 
 3 
 3 
 
 
 "2 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 2 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 Indi- 
 
 1920-21 
 
 1921-22 
 
 vidual 
 Total 
 
 82 
 
 13 
 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 11 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 
 29 
 
 3 
 
 
 35 
 
 5 
 
 
 151/2 
 
 2 
 
 
 2491/2 
 
 58 
 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 
 10 
 7 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 10 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 
 8 
 
 
 27 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 
 6 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 22 
 
 1 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 10 
 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 A. Arts 
 
 B. Pure science 
 
 C. Applied science. 
 
 1,8921/2 
 
 1,288 y2 
 
 196 
 
 Grand 
 Total 
 
 365 
 
 12 
 
 104 
 142 
 152% 
 63 Va 
 
 1,288% 
 
 105 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 196 
 
 TOTAL 3,377
 
 SCHOOL AND SOCIETY 
 
 lowships, and the interest in graduate work on 
 the part of students as shown by the number 
 of candidates for doctorates. It seems possible 
 that these two measures of interest in graduate 
 work may be related to each other. With this 
 possibility in view Table IV was compiled to 
 show the number of fellowships assigned as 
 compared with the number of doctorates con- 
 ferred in a given year by each of the twelve 
 
 universities. The compilation was necessarily 
 limited to the natural sciences, as no informa- 
 tion regarding doctorates conferred in the arts 
 was available to the Research Information 
 Service. 
 
 In some of the institutions, it will be noted 
 that there is a close parallelism between the 
 figures, whereas in others there is no apparent 
 relation. 
 
 TABLE IV 
 
 COMPAKISON OF FELLOWSHIPS AND DOCTOBATES IN THE SCIENCES 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 California 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Cornell 
 
 Harvard 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Johns Hopkins 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Pennsylvania - 
 
 Stanford 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Yale 
 
 1916-1917 
 
 1917-1918 
 
 1918-1919 
 
 1919-1920 
 
 1920-1921 
 
 F. D. 
 
 F. D. 
 
 F. D. 
 
 F. D. 
 
 F. D. 
 
 23 23 
 
 16 16 
 
 15 16 
 
 21 14 
 
 25 22 
 
 39 
 
 49 55 
 
 29 28 
 
 47 43 
 
 43 42 
 
 21 37 
 
 24 24 
 
 3 11 
 
 7 24 
 
 21 27 
 
 19 38 
 
 19 30 
 
 19 21 
 
 19 35 
 
 21 33 
 
 40 39 
 
 21 15 
 
 21 14 
 
 32 28 
 
 39 25 
 
 42 24 
 
 25 23 
 
 27 15 
 
 25 22 
 
 23 19 
 
 37 24 
 
 37 7 
 
 32 7 
 
 39 21 
 
 33 21 
 
 26 13 
 
 15 8 
 
 13 4 
 
 22 9 
 
 24 7 
 
 28 7 
 
 21 10 
 
 7 8 
 
 23 5 
 
 16 5 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 2 2 
 
 4 4 
 
 5 5 
 
 30 17 
 
 26 16 
 
 19 9 
 
 34 24 
 
 15 
 
 31 25 
 
 21 9 
 
 31 4 
 
 52 23 
 
 40 27
 
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