Harvard Receives Foundation Grant For Grad Students

Harvard received a $50,000 great today from a foundation "to increase support" for graduate students in the humanities.

Trustees for the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, citing an "acute need for increased support of humanistic scholarship," today announced grants to Harvard and five other universities. The foundation also said that the gifts might be renewed annually through the next four years.

Harvard will use its grant to provide fellowships for graduate students completing their doctoral dissertations.

President Bok said "the gift will give great encouragement to the efforts we are making to find new sources of support for graduate education in order to offset declining levels of assistance from the Federal government and other outside agencies."

"No form of support is more needed at the present time," he added.