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Scholarships and Fellowships.
GENERAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
At their meeting on December 10th, 1897, the following regulations
with regard to the General Scholarships offered by the University
were adopted by the Board of Visitors:
A. 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 Academic 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 laboratory 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 questions 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.
B. The same privileges under the same conditions and limitations
shall be extended to the public schools of the whole country.
C. The University offers to the public schools of Virginia six academic
scholarships, two of which are to be filled annually (except
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 the 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 can not 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) Exercises 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's 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.
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
entitled to vote on the appointment of an incumbent. See page 173.
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, as long as they
shall continue to have as many as fifty such members, or as soon as
they shall have reached 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.
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 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
be certified to the Chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia,
attested by the signatures of the presiding officer and the secretary
of the Association making the appointment. This certificate must be
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.
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.
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 Frederick, 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.
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.
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