 | University of Virginia record February, 1914 |  |
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.
All inquiries concerning and all applications for scholarships
and fellowships should be addressed to the dean of the university.
The president may, after due warning to the holder, declare any
scholarship or fellowship vacant at any time, if in the judgment
of the president and faculty the holder fails to give satisfactory
evidence of diligence or the faithful performance of his duties.
GENERAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
The following regulations with regard to the General Scholarships
offered by the university have been adopted by the Board of
Visitors:
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
SCHOLARSHIPS.
The faculty is authorized to prepare a list of such schools and
colleges as deserve special recognition. To each one of the institutions
placed on this list, the faculty is authorized to award a
scholarship in the College; to each of the colleges, a scholarship
in the Department of Graduate Studies, these scholarships to be
known as the University of Virginia Scholarship in — School or
College. The scholarship shall entitle the holder who must be a
graduate of his institution of the preceding session, to the remission
of all tuition and university fees, except the fees in Analytical
Chemistry and laboratory fees in general, if he be a Virginian; and
if he be not a Virginian, to the remission of all tuition fees, except
in Analytical Chemistry and laboratory fees in general, and one-half
of the university fee. The contingent fee must be deposited
in either case.
This list of schools and colleges may be extended from time
to time and further scholarships assigned as above.
In accordance with this regulation, the Faculty has selected the
following institutions for such recognition, and pending the consideration
of other institutions, invites application for enrollment in
this list from such schools as fall within the conditions prescribed
above:
| Asheville High School | Asheville, N. C. |
| Augusta Military Academy | Fort Defiance, Va. |
| Ball High School | Galveston, Texas |
| Bingham's School | Asheville, N. C. |
| Birmingham High School | Birmingham, Ala. |
| Butler School | Huntsville, Ala. |
| Charleston School | Charleston, S. C. |
| Chattanooga University School | Chattanooga, Tenn. |
| Cluster Springs Academy | Cluster Springs, Va. |
| Culver Military Academy | Culver, Ind. |
| Danville School for Boys | Danville, Va. |
| El Paso High School | El Paso, Texas |
| Episcopal High School | Alexandria, Va. |
| Fishburne Military Academy | Waynesboro, Va. |
| Florida Military Academy | Green Cove Springs, Fla. |
| Fork Union Academy | Fork Union, Va. |
| Gloucester Academy | Gloucester, Va. |
| Hope High School | Hope, Ark. |
| Hopkinsville High School | Hopkinsville, Ky. |
| Jefferson School for Boys | Charlottesville, Va. |
| Laurel High School | Laurel, Miss. |
| Louisville High School | Louisville, Ky. |
| Massanutten Academy | Woodstock, Va. |
| Maysville High School | Maysville, Ky. |
| McCallie School | Chattanooga, Tenn. |
| McGuire's School | Richmond, Va. |
| Memphis University School | Memphis, Tenn. |
| Miller School | Miller School, Va. |
| Montgomery University School | Montgomery, Ala. |
| Norfolk Academy | Norfolk, Va. |
| Pine Bluff High School | Pine Bluff, Ark. |
| Randolph-Macon Academy | Bedford City, Va. |
| Randolph-Macon Academy | Front Royal, Va. |
| Richmond Academy | Richmond, Va. |
| San Antonio Academy | San Antonio, Texas |
| Sandy Valley Seminary | Paintsville, Ky. |
| Shenandoah College | Reliance, Va. |
| Shenandoah Collegiate Institute | Dayton, Va. |
| Shenandoah Valley Academy | Winchester, Va. |
| Staunton Military Academy | Staunton, Va. |
| Union City Training School | Union City, Tenn. |
| University Military School | Mobile, Ala. |
| West Texas Military Academy | San Antonio, Texas |
| Woodberry Forest School | Orange, Va. |
A list of the colleges entitled to General Scholarships may be had
upon application to the Committee on Scholarships and Fellowships.
VIRGINIA PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS.
The university offers to accredited public high schools of Virginia,
one scholarship each in the college, on the conditions prescribed
below. This scholarship, for one session (that following
the incumbent's graduation from the high school), when awarded by
the designated high school to a white male graduate, who has pursued
and completed with credit the high school course, and who is endorsed
by the principal of the high school in question as to both
preparation and character, shall entitle the holder to a remission of
all fees payable to the university, except the fees in Analytical
Chemistry and laboratory fees in general. The holders of these scholarships
are required to deposit the contingent fee.
Any school accepting this scholarship shall make due announcement
of it both to the scholars of the school and through the local
papers; and at the end of the session shall, during the graduating
exercises and through the public press, announce the award; and
these appointments shall be duly certified to the dean of the university.
This list of Virginia public high schools may be extended from
time to time and further scholarships assigned as above.
In accordance with this regulation of the Board of Visitors,
the faculty has selected the following institutions for such recognition,
and, pending the consideration of other institutions, invites applications
for enrollment in this list from such schools as fall within
the conditions prescribed above:
| Big Stone Gap High School | Big Stone Gap, Va. |
| Bridle Creek High School | Bridle Creek, Va. |
| Bristol High School | Bristol, Va. |
| Charlottesville High School | Charlottesville, Va. |
| Chase City High School | Chase City, Va. |
| Clifton Forge High School | Clifton Forge, Va. |
| Covington High School | Covington, Va. |
| Culpeper High School | Culpeper, Va. |
| Danville High School | Danville, Va. |
| Dublin Institute | Dublin, Va. |
| Hampton High School | Hampton, Va. |
| Harrisonburg High School | Harrisonburg, Va. |
| Lawrenceville High School | Lawrenceville, Va. |
| Lexington High School | Lexington, Va. |
| Lynchburg High School | Lynchburg, Va. |
| Manassas High School | Manassas, Va. |
| Martinsville High School | Martinsville, Va. |
| New London Academy | Forest Depot, Va. |
| Newport News High School | Newport News, Va. |
| Norfolk High School | Norfolk, Va. |
| Onancock High School | Onancock, Va. |
| Petersburg High School | Petersburg, Va. |
| Pocahontas High School | Pocahontas, Va. |
| Portsmouth High School | Portsmouth, Va. |
| Pulaski High School | Pulaski, Va. |
| Richmond High School | Richmond, Va. |
| Roanoke High School | Roanoke, Va. |
| Salem High School | Salem, Va. |
| Shoemaker High School | Gate City, Va. |
| Smithfield High School | Smithfield, Va. |
| South Boston High School | South Boston, Va. |
| Staunton High School | Staunton, Va. |
| Suffolk High School | Suffolk, Va. |
| Tazewell High School | Tazewell, Va. |
| Western Branch High School | Portsmouth, Va. |
| Woodlawn High School | Woodlawn, Va. |
| Woodstock High School | Woodstock, Va. |
| Wytheville High School | Wytheville, Va. |
ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS.
At the meeting of the Board of Visitors on March 2d, 1899, the
following system of Alumni Scholarships was created:
1. These scholarships shall be known as Alumni Scholarships.
2. The incumbents shall be appointed by such local Alumni Associations
as are members in good standing of the General Alumni
Association and are so reported from year to year by its Secretary;
and by such of these only as may have ten or more active members
who are entitled to vote on the appointment of an incumbent.
3. No incumbent shall hold such scholarship for more than one
year; but one who has passed satisfactory examinations at the university
in one or more of his classes may be eligible for reappointment
the following session upon the recommendation of the faculty.
4. These scholarships shall be confined to those courses in the
Academic Schools of the university to which Virginia students are
now admitted without charge under the laws of Virginia (that is,
all Academic courses, save the courses in Analytical Chemistry).
The scholarship shall entitle the incumbent to exemption from tuition
fees in the Schools referred to except laboratory fees in general,
and to the remission, if he be a Virginian, of the university fee;
if he be not a Virginian, one-half of the university fee. The contingent
fee must be deposited in all cases.
5. Only such persons may be appointed as actually stand in
need of such aid, and such as otherwise would not, in the judgment
of the association making the appointment, be able to attend the university;
and no student will be permitted to enjoy the privileges of
an alumni scholarship while holding an endowed scholarship or fellowship.
6. The incumbent must be at least eighteen years of age, and
must be one who, in the judgment of the association naming him, is
studious, of good moral character, and prepared to enter the university.
He shall be subject to the same entrance requirements as other
students.
7. Every local alumni association, as above described, having
ten or more active members, shall be entitled annually to have one
appointee at the university; if hereafter such association ceases to
have as many as ten active members, it shall not be entitled to make
an appointment until that number be restored.
8. Every such local association having fifty or more active members
shall be entitled to fill two such scholarships annually, as long as
it shall continue to have as many as fifty such members, or as soon as
it shall have reached that number.
9. By "active" members as herein used, is meant alumni of the
university, who have been admitted by the association as active members
thereof, in accordance with the rules laid down by the Association.
No alumnus shall be entitled to vote upon the appointment of
an incumbent in more than one association during the same year, nor
for this purpose shall an alumnus be considered as an active member
of more than one association, at the same time. But graduation in
any department or school of the university is not hereby required.
10. Only one association in any city or town shall be entitled to
appoint incumbents to the scholarships hereby created.
11. The final appointment of each incumbent shall be made by
a vote of the whole association, a majority of the active members
voting for the applicant. It shall not finally be made by any committee
or by any officer or officers of the association. But such committee
or officers may be appointed by the association to nominate
or examine candidates, and to report to the association.
12. A statement, which shall include the full name and address
of the successful candidate, the fact of his appointment, and the specific
compliance of the association and the candidate in question with
conditions above stated, must be certified to the President of the
University of Virginia, attested by the signature of the Secretary of
the Association making the appointment. This certificate must be
in the hands of the president on or before the fifteenth day of August
preceding the opening of the session for which the incumbent
upon application.
13. The above requirements having been complied with, the
person or persons so appointed shall be entitled in each instance
to attend the university for the session immediately following the
appointment without payment of any tuition fees (save for the course
in Analytical Chemistry), except laboratory fees in general, and to
the remission, if he be a Virginian, of the university fee; if he be not
a Virginian, of one-half of the university fee; the contingent fee being
deposited in each case; and shall enjoy the same privileges and
be subject to the same restrictions as other students.
14. To guard against any possible ill-feeling or sense of injustice
on the part of any local association in respect to the construction
of these provisions, all such matters shall be referred to the
Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association, the decision
of which, when approved by the President of the University, shall
be final.
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
One of the Miller Scholarships, established in honor of the late
Samuel Miller, is awarded by the Faculty at the close of each session
to the candidate who passes, with the highest aggregate of marks, in
Physics B1, Chemistry B1, and Botany B1. The tenure is for two
years; and the emolument is two hundred and fifty dollars a year,
with free tuition.
The holder is required during his tenure to pursue studies in
the College only, and to elect each year one course in either the
School of Analytical and Industrial Chemistry or the School of Biology;
the laboratory fees are not remitted. There is no other restriction
upon his election of courses, and all of the courses required for
candidacy and tenure can be included in a program for a baccalaureate
degree.
The holder of a Miller Scholarship is required, during each year
of his tenure, to serve as a student assistant in the Biological Laboratory.
The amount of time required is three afternoons a week,
or such equivalent amount of time otherwise distributed as may be
agreed upon by the holder and the professor under whom the service
is rendered.
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 Scholarships are awarded by the Carey Trustees.
The income from the Carey fund is $570 a year, which is awarded
in one or more scholarships at the discretion of the trustees.
The Thompson Brown Scholarship is awarded by its founder.
Its value is ninety 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 two hundred
and fifty 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 sixty-six 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.
The Harmon Scholarship in the Department of Law was established
by the Rector and Visitors of the university June 11, 1912, and
carries exemption from all tuition and university fees. The holder
of the scholarship must be "a young Virginian of ability, character,
and need."
The Ryan Scholarships. Through the wisdom and benevolence
of Mr. Thomas F. Ryan there are available to young men of Virginia
ten scholarships of the value of $300 each. The tenure of each scholarship
is for one year. The conditions governing these scholarships
are the following:
(1) In June of each year on a day to be announced the previous
September and again in May, by advertisement in the newspapers,
an examination will be set in each congressional district of the state,
to be taken by candidates for the Ryan Scholarships.
(2) The above mentioned examinations will be held by committees
appointed by the president of the university and will be under
the honor system. The examination papers will be collected by the
examinations are over, and returned to the university in sealed packages.
The papers will be graded by the university authorities.
(3) Before standing the examination, each candidate must submit
at least two testimonials of good character and future promise
from authoritative sources; and a letter of his own stating that he
needs financial aid to enable him to attend the university.
(4) The ground covered by the examinations will be approximately
that covered by the standard four-year public high school
course of the state, so that any candidate passing the examinations
may enter the university as a regular student. No candidate who
has already attended college will be admitted to the examinations.
Any other white male candidate over sixteen years of age, who can
satisfy the conditions set forth in these regulations will be allowed
to stand the examinations.
(5) Each candidate will be required to pay in advance to the
university a fee of $3 for the privilege of standing the examination.
This fee is not returnable.
(6) The final selection of an incumbent of each Ryan Scholarship
will be made by the president of the university; in making such selection,
weight will be given to the testimonials of character and particularly
to the evidences of future promise, submitted by the candidates,
as well as to the grades obtained on the examinations.
(7) Each candidate will be informed as to his success or failure
by the president of the university, within a reasonable time after the
examinations are held; and the names of the successful candidates will
be given to the press for the information of the public.
The William C. Folkes Scholarships, are named for the donor,
under whose will a trust-fund was established, the income of which
supports two scholarships for white young men, residents of Lynchburg
or of Campbell County, Va. Appointments to these scholarships
are made, under the terms of the trust, by the Judge of the
Corporation Court of Lynchburg, the Judge of the Circuit Court and
the Judge of the County Court of Campbell County, in such manner
as they deem best to secure most suitable and deserving holders.
The income of each scholarship is $600 a year.
The James H. Skinner Scholarships were established under the
will of James H. Skinner of Staunton, Va. The holders must be
white male persons, who purpose to become ministers of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in America and desire to obtain a liberal
education to that end. Preference is to be given to sons of ministers.
Appointments are made by the Trustees of the Protestant
Episcopal Education Society of Virginia; or if these fail to appoint,
by the Rector and Visitors of the University.
From four to six of these scholarships are available. The income
of each is $250 a year.
The William A. Herndon Scholarship in the Department of Medicine
was established by the will of Dr. George Cumberland Herndon,
an officer of the United States Navy in memory of his father,
to defray the expenses through the medical course of this university
of poor and deserving young men, who desire to become physicians
and to enter the navy or army, but are financially unable to
meet the expenses of a medical education. The incumbent must be
of good morals and physically qualified to pass the army or navy
physical examination. The holder is selected by the medical faculty
by competitive examination. The tenure of the scholarship is
four years, conditional on good behavior and success in studies. One
will be awarded in September, 1914. For information as to the examination
and other requirements, address the Dean of the Department
of Medicine. The income is $850 a year.
The Bennet W. Green Scholarships were established by the will
of Dr. Bennet Wood Green of Warwick County, Virginia. The holders
are selected by the Rector and Visitors of the University, on
recommendation of the faculty. By the provisions of the will, in
the selection of the incumbents preference shall be given: (1) to
graduates in medicine of this university, who are also Masters of
Arts of the university; (2) to Masters of Arts, who wish to study
abroad; (3) to graduates in law of this university, who are also
Masters of Arts; and in all cases first to native-born Virginians,
and then to native-born residents of some other southern state.
The tenure of each scholarship is four years, unless a shorter time
is prescribed by the Rector and Visitors. The holder is required
to spend this time in study abroad or wherever else the medical
faculty may think best.
Two of these scholarships are available. The income of each
is $600 a year.
FELLOWSHIPS.
The Vanderbilt Fellowships are supported out of the working
fund of the Leander McCormick Observatory. They are assigned to
advanced students who take Astronomy as their major subject and
occupy a portion of their time in work connected with the Observatory.
They are appointed upon the recommendation of the Director
of the Observatory, to whom applications for further information
should be made. The value of each Fellowship is three hundred and
fifty dollars a year, with the remission of all fees.
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 graduate student, born in Virginia
and in need of such assistance. The value is two hundred dollars
a year.
The William Cabell Rives Fellowship, founded in honor of the
distinguished statesman of that name by his grandson, Dr. William
Cabell Rives, of Washington, D. C., is awarded by the Board of Visitors,
on the nomination of the president of the university, to a graduate
student in History. The value of the fellowship is two hundred
and fifty dollars, with remission of all fees.
The Board of Visitors Fellowships.—The Board of Visitors
makes annual appointment, upon the recommendation of the professors
in charge of certain designated schools, of four graduate
students to fellowships. Each incumbent is required to occupy a
portion of his time in work connected with the school from which
he is nominated. The value of each fellowship is two hundred dollars
a year, with the remission of all fees.
The Phelps-Stokes Fellowship in Sociology for the Study of
the Negro.—The Phelps-Stokes Fellowship was established in November,
1911, through the gift of the Trustees of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund, and the acceptance of this gift by the Rector and Visitors
of the University. The fellowship yields $500 annually. The holder
of the fellowship is appointed by the university and is required to
pursue advanced studies under the direction of the departments of
Sociology, Economics, Education, or History, as may be determined
in each case by the president. Each fellow is required also to prepare
a paper or thesis embodying the result of his investigations
which shall be published by the university, with assistance from the
income of the fund, any surplus remaining being applicable to other
objects incident to the main purpose of the fellowship.
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