For Anglo-Saxons

Lewis Baker Warren entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, studied electrical engineering, got mediocre grades. Those who knew the tall, handsome lad with the blue eyes and dark hair thought him a great fellow, believed he had a good future. At the end of the year he made a Sheff club, York Hall, and a fraternity, Chi Phi. But because he was shy and sickly, he took part in no sports, remained unknown to most of his classmates. In 1908 Lewis Baker Warren was too ill to return to Yale. In 1912 he died.

Lewis Warren had come of old Colonial stock, both sides of his family boasting ancestors who barely missed the Mayflower. As early as 1914 his father, Charles Howard Warren, socialite treasurer of the billion-dollar Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, gave Yale a scholarship for some boy like his late son. In 1924 he obtained Yale's promise to accept more such scholarships when he died. Surprised was Yale last week to learn that Father Warren, who died in November, had left it not two or three more scholarships but an estate estimated at $1,000,000, big enough to grant nearly 100 scholarships each year.

In minute detail Mr. Warren had drawn the picture of the type of boy to whom the Warren scholarships should go: "Beneficiaries shall be boys of qualifications, antecedents and traditions similar to those possessed by my son. They are not to be chosen on the basis of scholarship rating but primarily because they will be adjudged to be boys of high character, possessed of attractive personality, gifts of leadership and of promise for future usefulness. ... I wish each award to serve not only as a memorial to my son but to the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture. ... I direct that such beneficiaries shall be confined to those boys who shall be ... the sons of white Christian parents of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom are citizens of the United States and were born in America."

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