ABSTRACT
The committee's report recommended the establishment at Harvard of a body to be called the Society of Fellows. Each unmarried Junior Fellow was to be paid a small stipend and provided with free board and a free suite of rooms at one of the Harvard houses, which were in existence by the time the society was finally established. In the early days of the society, these emoluments were lavish compared with graduate scholarships in other American universities. The only rule was that a Junior Fellow might not be a candidate for the Ph.D. degree, for it was the special purpose of the society to allow young scholars to escape the stultifying requirements of the doctorate. Both the Harvard houses and the Society of Fellows have been so, and be it remembered that President A. Lawrence Lowell was largely responsible for founding both of them.
