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During the year 1959, we granted 354 Fellowships ; ;

in 1960, we granted 334.

As heretofore, our Fellowships are available to assist research in all fields of knowledge and creative effort in all the arts.

We do not favor one field over another: we think that all inquiry, all scholarly and artistic creation, is good -- provided only that it contributes to a sense and understanding of the true ends of life, as all first-rate scholarship and artistic creation does.

Indeed, if pressed, we would say what the late Robert Henri, American painter, said to a pupil, `` Anything will do for a subject: it's what you do with it that counts ''.