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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:

     

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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.


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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:

                                     

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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.


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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


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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, 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.


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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.

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."

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.


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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.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.

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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