Three Britishers

The first three Henry P. Davison scholarships were awarded to three Oxford men: C. V. Salmon, Harrow and Balliol; J. Bird, Clongowes and Balliol; R. W. Cecil, Eton and Christ Church. Salmon goes to Princeton; Bird, prominent athlete, to Harvard; Cecil, son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., G.B.E., to Yale.

These scholarships are given by the Henry P. Davison Scholarship Fund, established by Mrs. Davison, and are a sort of American Rhodes Scholarship, designed to aid in fostering good-will between the United States of America and Great Britain, and to create "that mutual under-standing that is the essence" of such good-will." Each year three young Englishmen are to be sent to obtain a portion of their education at the three American universities that appealed most strongly to Mr. Davison. The awards are made by committees at Oxford and Cambridge.

In English universities American students are permitted to engage in all forms of university athletics. Yale, Harvard and Princeton--like most American universities--observe a "one year rule" which forbids all Freshmen or " transfers " from other colleges to compete for places on university teams. Speculation is now rife as to whether exceptions to this rule will be made in the cases of visiting Britons.