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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.
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