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SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.

GENERAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following regulations with regard to the General Scholarships
offered by the University have been adopted by the Board of
Visitors:

The Faculty is authorized to prepare a list of such schools and
colleges tributary to the University as by the regularity of their
patronage, or the success of their graduates, may deserve special
recognition. To each one of the schools 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, if he be a Virginia; and if he be
not a Virginia, to the remission of all tuition fees, except in
Analytical Chemistry, 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:


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Atlanta University School,  Atlanta, Ga. 
Augusta Military Academy,  Fort Defiance, Va. 
Bethel Military Academy,  Bethel, Va. 
Bellevue High School,  Bellevue, Va. 
Bingham's School,  Asheville, N. C. 
Charleston University School,  Charleston, S. C. 
Chattanooga University School,  Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Cluster Springs Academy,  Cluster Springs, Va. 
Culver Military Academy,  Culver, Ind. 
Episcopal High School,  Alexandria, Va. 
Fishburne Military Academy,  Waynesboro, Va. 
Fork Union Academy,  Fork Union, Va. 
Gloucester Academy,  Gloucester, Va. 
Hoge Military Academy,  Blackstone, Va. 
Jefferson School for Boys,  Charlottesville, Va. 
Locust Dale Academy,  Locust Dale, Va. 
Louisville High School,  Louisville, Ky. 
Manassas Institute,  Manassas, Va. 
Massanutten Academy,  Woodstock, Va. 
McGuire's School,  Richmond, Va. 
Morton's School for Boys,  Savannah, Ga. 
Memphis University School,  Memphis, Tenn. 
Miller School,  Miller School, Va. 
Montgomery University School,  Montgomery, Ala. 
Newport News Academy,  Newport News, Va. 
Nolley's School,  Richmond, Va. 
Norfolk Academy,  Norfolk, Va. 
Randolph-Macon Academy,  Bedford City, Va. 
Randolph-Macon Academy,  Front Royal, Va. 
Richmond Academy,  Richmond, Va. 
San Antonio Academy,  San Antonio, Texas. 
Shenandoah College,  Reliance, Va. 
Shenandoah Collegiate Institute,  Dayton, Va. 
Shenandoah Valley Academy,  Winchester, Va. 
Staunton Military Academy,  Staunton, Va. 
Washington School for Boys,  Washington, D. C. 
Woodberry Forest School,  Orange, Va. 
Woodlawn Seminary,  Gordonsville, Va. 

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


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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.
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:

                                               

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Bedford City High School,  Bedford City, Va. 
Berryville High School,  Berryville, Va. 
Big Stone Gap High School,  Big Stone Gap, Va. 
Bridle Creek High School,  Bridle Creek, Va. 
Cape Charles High School,  Cape Charles, Va. 
Charlottesville High School,  Charlottesville, Va. 
Covington High School,  Covington, Va. 
Danville High School,  Danville, Va. 
Dublin Institute,  Dublin, Va. 
Hampton High School,  Hampton, Va. 
Harrisonburg High School,  Harrisonburg, Va. 
Lexington High School,  Lexington, Va. 
Lynchburg High School,  Lynchburg, Va. 
Manchester High School,  Manchester, Va. 
Marion High School,  Marion, 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. 
Portsmouth High School,  Portsmouth, Va. 
Richmond High School,  Richmond, Va. 
Roanoke High School,  Roanoke, 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. 

ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS.

At the meeting of the Board of Visitors on March 2d, 1899, the following
system of Alumni Scholarships was created:

1. The Scholarships shall be known as Alumni Scholarships.

2. These incumbents shall be appointed by such local Alumni Association
as are members in good standing of the General Alumni Association
and are so reported from year to year by its Secretary; and to 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 course in Analytical Chemistry). The Scholarship shall
entitle the incumbent to exemption from tuition fees in the Schools referred
to, and to the remission, if he be a Virginian, of the University fee;
if he be not a Virginian, to 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.


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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 is appointed. The President will send printed
forms of such certificates 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)
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 the 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.


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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 student
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 Committe of the
School of English Literature. Its value is fifty dollars 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


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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.



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