ABSTRACT
A foundation that has seen the measurable consequences of its work in fields like medicine and the biological sciences is bound to experience some difficulty in adjusting itself to the social sciences. Perhaps one of the difficulties is that our generation expects too much from the social sciences, forgetting that many of the predicaments of mankind do not lend themselves to scientific solution, but are the responsibility of all the moral and intellectual agencies of society, public and private alike. Another obvious difficulty is the use of the word science to describe the social studies. A review of the records of the men and women who over the last quarter of a century have received fellowships in the social sciences from Foundation funds shows gratifying results. The growth of trained personnel in the social sciences has been paralleled by the growth of institutions for advanced work and teaching.
