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Scholarships and Fellowships.

Eleven University Scholarships are open to new-comers from any of
the States at the beginning of the academic year; five are in the Academical
Department and two each in the Departments of Law, Medicine, and Engineering.
The scholarship awards are based upon a competitive examination
held during the first week of the session, embracing papers in English,
Latin, Greek, and Mathematics. The right is reserved to reject any papers
that do not reach a standard of three-fourths. The emoluments are free
tuition and matriculation. The value of one of these scholarships to the
successful competitor is, in the Academical Department, $100 to $150; in
the Law, $140; in Medicine, $100 to $160; in Engineering, $140.

The subjects assigned for examination in September, 1896, are as follows:

English.—Swinton's Grammar and Composition; Hart's Rhetoric, or equivalent.

Greek.—Xenophon's Memorabilia, Books i. and ii.; Lysias, Against Eratosthenes;
Grammar and Composition.

Latin.—Livy, Books i. and ii.; Cicero, Against Catiline; Grammar and Composition.

Mathematics.—Algebra, through the Binomial Theorem; Plane and Solid Geometry,
Venable's Legendre with exercises, or an equivalent; Plane Trigonometry, Todhunter's
Trigonometry for Beginners, or an equivalent.

The Miller Scholarship is awarded by the Faculty on conditions prescribed
under the Agricultural Department.

The McCormick Scholarship, established in honor of the founder of the
Astronomical Observatory, is awarded by Mr. McCormick. The emoluments
are free tuition and matriculation.

The Thompson Brown Scholarship is awarded by the founder.

The Isaac Carey Scholarships are awarded by the Carey Trustees.

The Birely Scholarship, founded upon the bequest of the late Mrs.
Evalena Seevers Birely in honor of her husband, Valentine Birely, Esq., of
Frederick, Md., is awarded by the Visitors to some student from the State
of Maryland.

The John Y. Mason Fellowship, founded upon the gift of Archer
Anderson, Esq., of Richmond, Va., is awarded by the Visitors to some
competent and deserving post-graduate student.