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SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

One of the Miller Scholarships is awarded, at the close of each
session, to the candidate who passes with the highest aggregate of marks,
in Physics 1B, Chemistry 1B, and Biology 1B. The tenure is for two
years, and the emolument is two hundred and fifty dollars a year, with
free tuition in the Scientific Schools. Other conditions are stated in
connection with the Department of Agriculture.

The McCormick Scholarship, established in honor of the late
Leander J. McCormick, the founder of the Astronomical Observatory,
is awarded by Mr. Robert Hall McCormick, of Chicago. The emolument
is free tuition in any department of the university, with remission
of the university fee.

The Isaac Carey Scholarship is awarded by the Carey Trustees.
Its value is about three hundred dollars a year.

The Thompson Brown Scholarship is awarded by its founder. Its
value is one hundred and twenty dollars a year.

The Birely Scholarship, founded upon the bequest of the late Mrs.
Evalena Seevers Birely, in honor of her husband, Valentine Birely, Esq.,
of Frederick, Maryland, is awarded by the Visitors to some students
from the State of Maryland. Its value is about one hundred dollars a
year.

The Henry Coalter Cabell Scholarship is awarded by the Visitors
to a graduate student upon the recommendation of the Committee of the
School of English Literature. Its value is fifty dollars a year.

The Isabella Merrick Sampson Endowment to the Engineering
School. By the generous gift of Mr. W. Gordon Merrick of Glendower,
Albemarle County, Virginia, made in July, 1910, there is provided the
sum of one hundred dollars annually, to be granted by the trustees of
the endowment to some deserving young man of Albemarle County, who
is or may desire to become a student of the University of Virginia in the
Engineering Department. If no applicant from Albemarle County applies,
the trustees may select a student from some other section. Application
should be made through the Dean of the Engineering Department to the
trustees of the Isabella Merrick Sampson Endowment.