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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 the local Alumni Associations
now organized throughout the country and appearing in this
catalogue; and by such other local Associations as may hereafter be
organized, and who, by consent of the Board of Visitors of the University,
become entitled to the privilege. Provided that no association
shall be entitled to make such appointment, except upon the terms
and conditions hereafter mentioned.
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 classes in the Academic
Departments 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 and
matriculation fees.
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.
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.
7. These provisions shall be applicable only to such associations as
are already organized and appear in this catalogue; and to such of
these only as may have twenty or more active members who are
entitled to vote on the appointment of an incumbent.
But any local Association hereafter organized, having twenty or
more such active members, may apply to the Board of Visitors, and
upon obtaining the consent of the Board, shall be listed among those
entitled to fill the Scholarships hereby created.
8. Every local Alumni Association, as above described, having twenty
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 twenty active members, it shall not be entitled to
make an appointment until that number be restored.
9. Every such local Association having fifty or more active members
shall be entitled to fill two such scholarships annually, so long as they
shall continue to have as many as fifty such members, or as soon as
they shall reach that number.
10. But no Association shall be entitled to make such appointment
for any session, except such as, through their Secretaries, shall have
mailed to the General Secretary of the Alumni (at the University), on
or before the first day of May preceding the session for which the
application is to be made, a complete list of the active members of such
Association, with their correct post-office addresses at that time, and
the names of the officers of such Association. Provided, however, that
for appointments to go into effect on the fifteenth of September, 1899,
it will be sufficient if such list is mailed on or before the first day of
July, 1899.
11. 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.
12. Only one Association in any city or town shall be entitled to
appoint incumbents to the Scholarships hereby created.
13. The final appointment of each incumbent shall be made by a
vote of the whole Association, a majority of the active members being
present and voting of record 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.
14. A copy of the minutes of the meeting, which shall include the
final result of the vote of the Association, the candidates who are
voted for, with their post-office addresses, and the name of the successful
candidate, the fact of his appointment, and the specific compliance
with the conditions contained in Sections 5, 6, 10 and 13, must
attested by the signatures of the presiding officer and secretary
of the Association making the appointment. This certificate must be
in the hands of the Chairman of the Faculty on or before the fifteenth
day of August preceding the opening of the session for which the
incumbent is appointed, and the Chairman of the Faculty is hereby
authorized to print forms of such certificate, which may be sent to
the officers of any Association desiring the same.
15. The above requirements having been complied with, the person
or persons so appointed shall be entitled to attend the University for
one session without payment of any matriculation or tuition fees, and
shall enjoy the same privileges and be subject to the same restrictions
as other academic students.
16. To guard against any possible ill-feeling or sense of injustice on
the part of the local Associations in respect to the construction of
these provisions, all such matters shall be referred to the Executive
Committee of the General Society of the Alumni, the decision of
which, when approved by the Faculty, shall be final.
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