Chapter XII - 1451k - the University Offices - University of Cambridge

FUNDS, STUDENTSHIPS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.
3. The Electors to the Studentship shall be three Professors assigned to the Faculty of History
appointed by the Faculty Board of History not later than the division of the Easter Term in each year,
provided that, if they will be available to act, the Board shall always appoint the Vere Harmsworth
Professor of Imperial and Naval History and the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History. The
Electors shall have power to co-opt not more than two additional Electors.
If the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History is an Elector he or she shall be
Chairman ex officio; otherwise, the Electors shall elect one of themselves to be Chairman.
4. Any person who satisfies the following conditions may be a candidate for the Studentship:
(a) a candidate shall be a citizen of a Commonwealth country, or of a country which was in
membership of the British Empire or Commonwealth in 1932;
(b) a candidate shall have graduated in any university with high honours in History, or in some
other subject held by the Electors to be relevant to the subject of study proposed by the candidate;
(c) a candidate either shall have received his or her first degree at any university not earlier than
the academical year next but three preceding that in which he or she submits an application for
the Studentship, or shall have been registered as a Graduate Student for not more than nine
terms on the date by which applications are to be sent in;
(d) a candidate shall submit to the Electors evidence of his or her competence for historical or other
relevant studies;
(e) a candidate shall promise, if elected, to undertake during the tenure of the Studentship continuous
and full-time study of some subject connected with the general history or constitutional, social,
or cultural development of the British Empire since 1815, of the Commonwealth, or of the
present problems of the Commonwealth, such subject to be approved by the Electors.
5. Preference shall be given to a student who intends to prepare for a career in the service of the
Commonwealth or of any Commonwealth country.
6. The Studentship shall be tenable for one academical year, but a Student in the first year of tenure
may compete for re-election for a second year.
7. The stipend of the Studentship shall be such sum as shall be determined by the Electors within
a range approved from time to time by the Council. In determining the sum the Electors shall take
into consideration the financial circumstances of the successful candidate. The stipend shall be paid in
half-yearly instalments in advance; provided that the Electors may withhold the second instalment if
they are not satisfied that the Student has been pursuing his or her studies with sufficient diligence.
8. The Studentship shall be offered for competition in the Easter Term of each academical year.
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of History shall issue a Notice to candidates before the division
of each such term; candidates shall send in their applications before the end of Full Term, and the
award shall be made before the end of June.
9. Tenure of the Studentship shall begin with the academical year after election; provided that the
Electors may at or after an election allow a Student to postpone the beginning of tenure for not more
than one year.
10. The Student, if not a member of the University, must become such before the end of the term
next after election and remain such during tenure. In making his gift of the Studentship the donor
expressed the hope that the candidate elected might become a member of Christ’s College, if not
already a member of a College, and if approved by the College; also that he or she might remain a
member of the College during the tenure of the Studentship.
11. If in any year the Electors consider that a second Studentship should be awarded they may make
such an award, and the provisions of Regulations 3–10 shall apply to the second Studentship and its
holder.
12. After provision has been made for the Studentship or for Studentships in accordance with the
foregoing Regulations 1–11 any unexpended income accumulated in the Fund may be applied from
time to time at the discretion of the Electors and subject to such conditions as they may think fit for
the purposes of making grants to Graduate Students in the University for the encouragement of study
in any of the fields specified in Regulation 4(d).
13. These regulations may be altered by Grace, provided that Dr Rose’s gift shall always be used
to maintain a Studentship for the furtherance of the studies mentioned in Regulation 1.
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