Seven on Faculty Get Guggenheim Grants for Study

Seven University faculty members are among 30 New England recipients of Guggenheim followships for 1953-54 it was announced yesterday.

The followships, donated by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, are granted to "men and women who have demonstrated capacity for original scholarly research and artistic creation."

Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, was granted a fellowship for study of "the structure and function of British political parties." He also has been given a Fulbright scholarship to England for study of the same subject.

A followship was awarded to Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, for work on the "development in recent decades of the nationalist movements of the non-white peoples of the world." He will do his work at the University of California at Berkeley.

Alfred B. Harbage, professor of English, will travel to England to do a study of "the methods of stating and acting Shakespeare's plays."

To Study Molecules

A study of "the size, shape and electrical symmetry of protein molecules" will be made by John L. Oncley, professor of Physical Chemistry. He will work at the University of London.

Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., assistant professor of English, will go to England to study Tennyson's literary career.

A fellowship was awarded to Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History, for work on the "Intellectual development of modern China." Schwartz will spend six months in Japan.

Dr. Wiktor Weintraub, visiting lecturer on Slavic languages and literature, plans to stay at Harvard for his study of the history of Polish literature.