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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:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ACCREDITED SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIPS.

The faculty is authorized to prepare a list of such schools and colleges
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 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
Bethel Military Academy	Bethel, Va.
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.
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.
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.
University Military School	Mobile, Ala.
Washington School for Boys	Washington, D. C.
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:

                                                                             

Berryville High School	Berryville, Va.
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 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),
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 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.

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 reccommendation 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 statesmen 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.