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66 GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.
ments : Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics,
Civil Engineering, Latin
and Greek, Archaeology and Comparative Philology, Neurology and
Physiology and Vertebrate Zoology (including Anatomical Methods
and Human Anatomy and Microscopy, Histology, and Embryology),
with Invertebrate Zoology and Entomology, Botany and Geology,
English, American History, one each.
(j). The Oliver Graduate Scholarship in Mathematics, founded
November, 1896, in memory of Professor James Edward Oliver, has
an annual value of $300 and is awarded under the same conditions as
other graduate scholarships.
2. All candidates for Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships must
be graduates of this University, or of some other institution having
equivalent courses of instruction, and must be of high character and
marked ability in some important department of study.
3. Fellows and Graduate Scholars will be selected by the University
on the recommendation of the department in which the
Faculty
applicants desire to carry on the principal part of their work.
4. All applications and testimonials must be filed with the Registrar
on or before the 15th of April of the collegiate year preceding the one
for which the application is made. Blank forms for application may
be obtained from the Registrar.
5. The term of each Fellowship and Graduate Scholarship is one
year ; but the term may be extended to two years, providing the ex
tension does not increase the number of Fellows and Graduate Scholars
beyond that named in paragraph 1 of this act.
6. The moneys due on Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships are
paid at the office of the Treasurer of the University in three equal
payments, on the 15th of December, the 15th of March, and the 15th
of June.
7. In view of the fact that practical University instruction will be
of use in training said Fellows and Scholars for future usefulness, each
holder of a Fellowship or Graduate Scholarship shall be liable to ren
der service to the University in the work of instruction or examination
to the extent of four hours per week through the collegiate year.
The distribution and assignment of this service shall be determined
by the head of the department in which the Fellow or Scholar is doing
the principal work. It is expected that the President White Fellows
in History and Political Science will do a large part of their study in
the President White Library, and to this end, it is required that, except
when, with the consent of the Librarian of the University, they are
excused or assigned to other duties by the Professors of History and
Political Science, said Fellows shall be in attendance in the Library
not less than four hours each per day.