 | University of Virginia March, 1907 |  |
ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS.
At the meeting of the Board of Visitors on March 2d, 1899, the following
system of Alumni Scholarships was created:
1. The Scholarships shall be known as Alumni Scholarships.
2. These 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 to 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 course in Analytical Chemistry). The Scholarship shall
entitle the incumbent to exemption from tuition fees in the Schools
referred to, and to the remission, if he be a Virginian, of the University
fee; if he be not a Virginian, to one-half of the University fee. The
Contingent fee must be deposited in all cases.
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
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 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)
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 the local Associations 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.
| University of Virginia March, 1907 | |