Adams to Award House Scholarship Next Tuesday in Memory of Little

An Adams House junior will receive the first scholarship ever awarded by a House when the David M. Little '18 Memorial Scholarship is given at Adams' annual dinner next Tuesday evening.

The unprecedented grant will derive from a fund raised in honor of Little, who had been Master of the House from 1938 until he died last spring. Shortly after Little's death a group of his friends began to solicit contributions from alumni who had been Adams House residents while Little was Master. The campaign later extended to faculty members, Harvard Clubs, and other friends of Little. In all, $15,000 was raised.

Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, will determine the recipient each year, the award going to a House member at the conclusion of his junior year "on the basis of leadership, character, scholastic achievement and good House citizenry." The stipend will be based on financial need; thus, in some years the award would be purely honorary if the Financial Aid Office so decided. All winners will receive an inscribed book.

Little, a student of eighteenth century English literature, was also the first Secretary to the University, a position created by President Conant in 1936. He became Master of Adams two years later, and despite his dual administrative duties, was reputed to know every member of the House by his first name from the time he became Master.