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and possibly more holders of Exhibitions and Bursaries of smaller sums. We shall 
also be in possession quite shortly of an endowment to provide a Scholarship of 607. 
a year, tenable by a candidate from R. School. Apart from these instances, we have 
occasionally given Scholarships temporarily out of our College income, or they have 
been provided by special gifts. I am not aware that we have ever given a Scholarship 
which involves “‘ complete maintenance.” In our opinion, such a course would be 
rarely desirable. 
V. Ido not remember a case of (a) or (6). The College has frequently, on 
the other hand, assisted students who could not complete their College course without 
some special assistance in addition to that which they might already be receiving 
from other sources. 
VI. It is not quite clear to me what the precise purport of these inquiries is. 
Consequently, I am afraid that the information I have given may not be of much use. 
The most important observation, based on experience, that I can offer on the subject 
of Scholarships would be this: that while entrance Scholarships serve a certain 
obvious purpose, far too much stress has been laid upon the importance of having a 
large supply of them, without giving sufficient importance to their duration. That 
is to say, it isof very little use for a local education authority or other body to give a 
Scholarship for two years unless it has quite clearly made up its mind that—except 
the candidate fails in conduct or progress—the Scholarship will be extended, not only for 
a third year, but for a fourth. Extraordinary difficulty is experienced in persuading 
local authorities to extend any Scholarship for a fourth year, and yet it is precisely 
that fourth year which, in the case of University students, is the most important of all. 
Over and over again at this College our students have been placed in a difficulty in 
the final year of their course. The difficulty arises in any kind of University course, 
‘but I will give an instance of which I have had two recent examples. Two women 
students, holding Scholarships from local authorities, successfully obtained their 
degree after probably in each case three years’ work, not more, and possibly less. 
These students wish to become teachers in secondary schools. Consequently, they 
wish to remain at the College for another year in order to go through a course of 
secondary training and get a certificate. Unless they do this, they will stand very 
little chance of getting posts for which trained candidates are in competition, and yet 
in both cases—the cases of the two Education Committees—opposition is shown 
to the extension of the Scholarships for these purposes. In one case, the Education 
Secretary writes to say that the course of secondary training appears to him to be 
similar to a course of preparation for a civil service examination, and, in his opinion, 
not a course for which a Scholarship should be continued. The same Secretary, I 
believe, puts into his advertisements for vacancies in the staffs of his county secondary 
schools that only trained candidates need apply. At this College we have recognised 
that the most imperative need of all is for Scholarships that would take effect during 
the third and fourth and even fifth years of a student’s stay with us. We consider 
that these are more important than entrance Scholarships, and that nothing would 
benefit a University institution more than for it to be known that, notwithstanding 
a comparatively small supply of entrance Scholarships, there is a probability that any 
hardworking and promising student will be enabled to complete a long course of 
study, including probably a period of post-graduate study. We have already decided 
that such funds as we possess available for such purposes will be used in accordance 
with these principles when the College becomes a University in two or three years’ 
time. 
University Cottegr, ABERYSTWITH. 
I. 37 Scholarships and Exhibitions, 1 of 54.; 3 of 401.; 1 of 35/.; 1 of 271.; 
4 of 30/.; 1 of 20/.; 2 of 15/.; 14 of 10/.; 1 of 61. Of these, 1 is tenable for four 
years, 18 for three years, 12 for two years, 6 for one year. 
II. No two of these are tenable together, but students may hold them together 
with Scholarships from other sources outside the College. 
Ill. No limit is imposed on the annual income derived from emoluments of all 
kinds by a single beneficiary. 
IV. There is no benefaction for the complete maintenance of students of excep- 
tional promise. 
V. (a) Cases have occurred. ‘ Occasionally the College can be of assistance by 
obtaining private aid, but as a rule this is not possible.’ 
(0) ‘ Cases have also occurred of deserving beneficiaries retiring during their course 
