DIVINITY SCHOOL PRIZES.
Modification of Rules for the Pecu-
niary Assistance of Students.
A change in some particulars, to take
effect in the ensuing year, is to be made
in the provisions for the aid of members
of Yale Divinity School through the
scholarships and prizes which are a part
of the endowment of the institution.
The new arrangement, as concerns mem-
bers of the three classes, is substantially
explained in the following statement:
“A large number of students prepar-
ing for the ministry, in consequence of
their limited means, need pecuniary aid.
In this class are many college graduates
who have made their way through the
preparatory school and the college,
largely by their own exertions. It is
expected, however, that theological stu-
dents will depend as far as possible for
their support, upon their parents and
friends and upon their own personal
efforts for self-support. At the same
time, where labor for self-support en-
dangers health or distracts attention, to
the detriment of progress in study, stu-
dents are advised to apply for aid from
the funds which have been contributed
by benefactors to the Divinity School
for this purpose.
“In general it may be said that the
aid auxiliary to reasonable efforts on
his own part which is provided for every
young man in the Divinity School, of
any evangelical denomination, who gives
promise of usefulness in the ministry, is
sufficient to enable him to prosecute to
the end a course of theological study.
“The sources of pecuniary aid for stu-
dents are the following:
SCHOLARSHIPS ESTABLISHED FOR THE
BENEFIT OF MEMBERS OF THE UNDER-
GRADUATE CLASSES.
“Students of the Junior, Middle, or
Senior classes, whose circumstances re-
quire it, who maintain a creditable stand-
ing in the studies of the course and
commend themselves in other respects
to the approval of the Faculty, receive
one hundred dollars a year in semi-
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annual payments (in December and
May), from the income of these scholar-
ships. Blanks stating the testimonials
required in the first instance may be
obtained by applicants from the Secre-
tary of the Faculty.
“But to those to whom this appropria-
tion is made the Faculty proposes to
assign some remtnerative service—con-
sulting, as far as may be, their prefer-
ence as to its special form—in connec-
tion with city missions in New Haven,
in religious instruction and pastoral
visits in the hospitals of the city, in
teaching in Bible classes in the churches,
in rendering assistance in the Refer-
ence Library, and in other employments
suitable to theological students and
helpful in their training for the ministry.
“The appropriation will thus be a
proper equivalent for service rendered.
Care will be taken to prevent work of
this nature from interfering with the
time demanded for study and needful
recreation. |
“Should there be, in the judgment of
the Faculty, on the part of any, a de-
terioration in scholarship or in other
qualities conducive to stccess in the call-
ing of a minister, the appropriations
referred to may be discontinued at the
end of any half-year.
“Meritorious students who need
pecuniary aid, but are deterred for good
reasons from making return through
services of the kind referred to, may
receive it, if they prefer to do so, in
the form of a loan for a term of years
at a nominal rate of interest, and pay-
able in installments. In cases of un-
usual hardship or scanty support subse-
quently in the work of the ministry, or
for other reasons of equal weight, the
obligation may be cancelled by vote of
the Faculty.
PRIZE SCHOLARSHIPS.
“A limited number of prize scholar-
ships of one hundred dollars and fifty
dollars each, the former known as the
Fogg and the latter as the Allis Scholar-
ships, are awarded on the basis of
high scholarship, in semi-annual install-
ments, to members of the several classes.
Candidates for the Fogg Prize Scholar-
ships of the Junior year are required to
pass an examination in Greek, Phil-
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osophy, and English Literature (in addi-
tion Hebrew, History, Philosophy and
Economics may also be offered), on
entering the Divinity School (or as
otherwise may be arranged with the
Secretary of the Faculty).
half of the Fogg Scholarship will be
awarded on the basis of this examina-
tion. Testimonials and other evidence
of previous scholarship will have weight
in determining the award. The grade
of scholarship required is that of the
Phi Beta Kappa or Philosophical Ora-
tion at Yale, which is attained by from
eight to ten per cent. of the graduates.
The maintenance of the same grade is
necessary in order to retain these
scholarships during the remainder of
the course. A corresponding entrance
examination in theological studies
equivalent to those of the first or second
year is required of candidates for these
scholarships who enter the Senior or
Middle class as new students.
“The Allis Scholarships of fifty dollars
each stand in the relation of second
prizes to the Fogg Scholarships, but
may be awarded at the end of each half-
year without entrance examination.
“Young men of superior ability and
attainments, whose circumstances re-
quire it, may thus, through the general
and prize scholarships, receive two hun-
dred dollars a year throughout their
Seminary course.
“Honorary rank is in all cases given
to students who are equal in merit to
the holders of the Fogg and Allis
Scholarships, but whose circumstances
are such that they do not require pecu-
niary assistance.
“The Downes Prize, founded in 1806
by William E. Downes, Esq., of New
Haven, will be awarded to the students
of the Senior and Middle Classes who
shall attain to the highest proficiency
in the public reading of the Scriptures
and of Hymns. A first prize of fifty
dollars and a second prize of forty dol-
lars will be assigned by a committee
appointed by the Faculty to the two suc-
cessful competitors in each of these
classes.”
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The Yale Dormitories.
Since the recent fire in North College
the Yale News has raised again the
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danger signal concerning the Yale
dormitories, which are without fire
escapes and otherwise in many cases
im bad: form: as weoards “fire — The
Hartford Courant thinks the Yale News
is just right and thus comments:
“Old North College at Yale was
found to be on fire, early Saturday
morning. As usual the pajama brigade
turned out promptly and did yeoman’
service Perhaps the fire was blown
out with tin horns. Certainly it was
done for. All now is quiet, and nobody
is calling for the fire department; but
Yale has had another warning. The
fact that she has had lots of such warn-
ings in the past hundred years and
more, and has got along without at-
tending to any of them, may prevent the
new one counting for anything more
than its predecessors. But it is true
that fire in certain of the Yale dormi-
tories might result in loss of life by rea-
son of the neglect of certain precautions
which would, if adopted, practically re-
move the danger. If there are any fire
escapes on the dormitories, the Courant
has failed to find them, and it is mis-
taken if there are not numerous sec-
tions of large buildings entirely cut off
from the adjoining sections of the same
buildings, so that, in case of fire in one
entry penning students up there, they
could not make their way through into
the next entry and so descend in safety.
If this is not a present condition of
things, the Courant would be glad to
announce.the change and welcome the
improvement.”
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Journal of Science Contents.
The contents of the American Journal
of Science for January are as follows:
Products of the Explosion of Acetylene;
by W. G. Mixter; Glaciation of Cen-
tral Idaho, by G. H. Stone; Pogonia
Ophioglossoides, by T. Holm; Graf-
tonite, a new Mineral from Grafton,
New Hampshire, and its Intergrowth
with Triphylite, by S. L. Penfield; Ex- .
plorations of the “Albatross” in the
Pacific Ocean, by A. Agassiz; Analyses’
of Italian Volcanic Rocks, II, by H. S.
Washington; Constitution of the Am-
monium Magnesium Arseniate of Ana-
lysis, by M. Austin.
