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Scholarships and Fellowships.

At their meeting on December 10th, 1897, the following regulations with regard
to the Scholarships offered by the University were adopted by the Board of Visitors:

I. For every five academic students in any one session sent to the University by
any private school from its pupils of the preceding session, said school shall be
entitled to a scholarship the next session in the Academical department of the
University, eligible to white male students, said scholarship exempting the recipient,
if he be a Virginian, from the payment of the matriculation fee, and if he
be from any other State, from the payment of tuition fees, but in neither case
exempting him from payment of fees for labaratory courses in Chemistry.

These scholarships shall be awarded under the following conditions:

1. The recipient must be selected from the pupils of the session preceding that
in which they are to enter upon the scholarship.

2. Candidates shall stand examinations on Latin, Mathematics, and the English
Language. In Latin and Mathematics the examinations will be on a course
equivalent to that of Course A in the University, and in English on a course that
shall insure adequate preparation for the B. A. Course. The examination question
shall be sent from the University to the head-masters of the schools, who
will hold the examinations on certain specified days about the middle of May,
and will send the papers to the Secretary of the Faculty, signed with a pledge,
the head-master in addition certifying that to the best of his knowledge, the candidates
received no assistance in the examinations. The papers will then be read
by the professors of the respective subjects, and such of them as reach the standard
required by the University will be sent back, with numerical percentage marks
attached, to the head-masters, who will then select one of the pupils thus passing
the examination to receive the scholarship. But if none of the papers attain the
University standard, no scholarship shall be awarded.

II. The same privileges under the same conditions and limitations shall be
extended to the public schools of the whole country.

III. The University offers to the public schools of Virginia six academic
scholarships, two of which are to be filled annually (except when the occurrence
of vacancies leads to a modification), and each is to be held no longer than three
years by the incumbent, who shall receive $200 per annum from the University,
and shall be exempted from the payment of the matriculation fee.

Any scholar holding a scholarship under this provision who does not pass in at
least one of his classes for the whole of any year shall forfeit his scholarship
thereby.

In case of a vacancy occurring during the term of any incumbent at the beginning
of a session, it shall be filled by the appointment, for the unexpired term, of
the person receiving the next eligible mark, at the preceding examination, to those
regularly appointed at that time.

Should a vacancy occur during the session, it shall be filled for the remainder
of the term, if any, in a similar manner, from the candidates at the following
May examination.

Each public school shall be allowed to name three, or less, of its white male
graduates of the current session or candidates for graduation (who shall not be
eligible unless they graduate that session) as candidates for scholarships, and these
shall stand examinations in Latin, Mathematics, and English, under the same
regulations as stated above.

The University professors shall read and value the papers, and the scholarships
shall be awarded to the candidates who receive the highest marks, provided these
marks reach the University standard, and provided that not more than one candidate
from any one school shall receive a scholarship the same year. Each successful
candidate must enter upon his University course at the beginning of the
session following his last session at the public schools, and if he voluntarily chooses
not to avail himself of the privileges of his scholarship before his three years
expire, he cannot be reinstated.

The subjects assigned for the University Scholarship examinations in May,
1898, are as follows:

I. Latin:

(I) Paradigms; Rules of Gender; Force of Tenses of the Indicative, Subjunctive,
and Infinitive; Force of Cases.

(II) Translations from Cornelius Nepos, or Cæsar De Bello Gallico, Books I
and II; Cicero's I and II Orations against Catiline.

(III) Exercise involving the application of the leading principles of Syntax,
with questions on the same.

For translation two extracts within the limits above given.

The student will be expected to know the historical references in extracts given
for translation.

II. Mathematics:

Venable's Geometry; Wells' Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Charles
Smith's Algebra (omitting Interest and Annuities, Continued Fractions, and
Probability.)

III. English Language:

The applicant will be examined as to his knowledge of English Grammar, the
elements of Composition, the principles of Rhetoric, and, in general, as to his
ability to express his thoughts in writing. In the latter test great weight will be
given to spelling, punctuation, legibility of handwriting, neatness of form, etc.

In preparation for this examination, the following books are suggested:

Baskervill and Sewell's English Grammar; Emerson's History of the English
Language; Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric.

One of the Miller Scholarships is awarded, on the recommendation of the
Faculty, at the close of the session, to the candidate who passes, with the highest
aggregate of marks, in Physics, Chemistry, and Botany. The tenure is for two
years, and the emolument is $250 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 founder of the Astronomical
Observatory, is awarded by Mr. Leander J. McCormick. The emoluments
are free tuition and matriculation.

The Thompson Brown Scholarship is awarded by the founder.

The Isaac Carey Scholarships are awarded by the Carey Trustees.

The Birely Scholarship, founded upon the bequest of the late Mrs. Evalena
Seevers Birely in honor of her husband, Valentine Birely, Esq., of Fred rick,
Md., is awarded by the Visitors to some student from the State of Maryland.

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.