CARNEGIE FELLOWSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 6

CARNEGIE FELLOWSHIPS

Under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation two fellowships in education, of the value of 1250 dollars, and tenable at the Univei sity of London for one year, have been made available annually to New Zealand students. These are to be selected by the New Zealand University Senate, and one condition is that the fellows must bind themselves to return to their own country within a reasonable period after the conclusion of their studies in London. It is often the case that our best students, enabled by scholarship funds to advance their studies abroad, are lost to the country. Many of our Rhodes scholars have won distinctions abroad and found better scope foi advancement than would have been possible had they remained in then own country. It could not well be otherwise, and in the larger sense it is to the general benefit of mankind that the. best intellects of the various countries should spend the leaven of their higher intelligence over the widest possible area. It may. be that the Carnegie fellows might only return in order to leave again, yet it will be something to our advantage that they should return if only to enable countrymen to learn and profit by their experiences abroad. It is only by future expansion of the Dominion’s wealth and activities, and the spread of culture, that opportunities in time to come will present themselves to induce our clever young men to fulfil their destinies in their native land. Until then their natural inclination will be to spread their wings and fly to the morc_ advanced fields abroad.