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research. This fellowship carries a stipend of $1500. The Association's European Fellowship of $1500 is open to American women having a degree in art, science, or literature who have met all the requirements of the Ph.D. degree, with the possible exception of completion of the dissertation, and who show promise of distinction. Their Boston Alumnae Fellowship with a stipend of $1000 is awarded "for constructive work in Europe or America," the award being made to an applicant who presents a report based on a limited amount of investigation but of high quality and promise. A number of colleges and universities offer foreign study fellowship opportunities to their own graduates and in some instances consider applications from graduates of other colleges of recognized standing. Also, fellowships originally intended for graduate study a t a particular American college or university may under certain circumstances be used for foreign study. As each of these opportunities entails a specific relationship to the institution in question, teachers interested in them might well consult their alma maters or the particular colleges concerned. In a bulletin on "Fellowships and Scholarships Open to American Students for Study in Foreign Countries," published by the Institute of International Education, 2 West 45th Street, New York, detailed information about these various fellowships will he found. The institute also publishes a number of bulletins of interest and value to teachers and students, such as the Handbook for American Students in France and treatises on the systems of higher education in other countries of Europe. Several colleges have assembled materiai on fellowship opportunities, available for use in this country as well as abrozd, for the benefit of their own graduates and have put that material in pamphlet form. Smith College has published such a bulletin on the opportunities for women college graduates. The American studying abroad, whether interested in a specific project or in general cultural development, enjoys the opportunity to observe "a civilization other than his own" in the making, and is enabled to interpret and compare his own nation and its institutions with another nation and its institutions. Rich opportunities in every field of scientific study and research are to be found in foreign universities providing an invaluable supplement to our own educational resources. And, further, he is afforded the opportunity to add his weight to the bond of international good-will and understanding which inevitably results from the contact of one civilization with another. Synthetic Bell Imitates Big Ben. Listeners to station KDKA now hear chimes every hour that sound like London's Big Ben. Actually the sounds are made synthetically by combining the electric vibrations from a battery of vacuum tubes.-Science Senrice
