SCHOLARSHIPS, ETC., HELD BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. 245 



St. Hugh's College, Oxford. 



I. Annually, 1 Scholarship of 251. ; biennially, 2 of 301., 2 of 40Z., all tenable for 

 three years and renewable for a fourth. 



II. No. 



III. No. 



IV. None. 



V. (a) No. 



(6) and (c) Retirements would have occurred but for help through the College 

 (private Loan Fund) or from the Loan Fund of the Association for the Education 

 of Women in Oxford. 



St. Hilda's Hall, Oxford. 



I. (rt) Awarded annually 2 open Scholarships, tenable for three years (occasionally 

 with extension to a fourth), 50^., 301. (or 2 of 401.). 



(b) In 1914 and every three years. 



Dorothea Beale Scholarship of 50^ for pupils of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, 

 tenable for three years. 



[Two other Scholarships (non-competitive) are awarded at Cheltenham to pupils 

 of the Ladies' College, formerly, but now not always, every year, to be held at St. 

 Hilda's Hall: viz., the Hay Scholarship of from 251. to 451. per annum for three years, 

 and the S. Hilda's College Scholarship, of varying amount, same duration.] 



(c) Exhibitions are occasional only. One of 301. is now held for three years by a 

 student who was third in the open competition. 



II. No. 



III. No. 



IV. (a) None, except above Hay Scholarship, which is under the control of the 

 Ladies' College, Cheltenham. 



(b) None except a small fund once given but now exhausted. None for complete 

 maintenance of students. Some are assisted (to the maximum of 501.) by an old 

 Students' Loan Fund, and they share with other women students in the benefits of 

 the A.E.W. Central Loan and Grant Fund. 



V. (a) Candidates have stated that they could only accept the larger of the two 

 open Scholarships in about 5 cases, but I do not think they proved the successful 

 ones. If successful they have sometimes managed to get loans from their own friends 

 or Scholarship grants from the London or other County Councils, and their acceptance 

 of a Scholarship has been contingent on this. 



(6) Not actually. 



(c) In one or two cases of difficulty the Hall has met them by rooms at reduced 

 rate. Reduced fees were frequent until 1904, when competitive Scholarships were 

 established ; since then rare. Friends of the College have occasionally assisted in- 

 dividual students to remain at College. 



VI. More Scholarships are badly needed, as many candidates of Scholarship or 

 Exhibition standard cannot enter the Hall as commoners, and either go elsewhere as 

 scholars to non-Oxford Colleges, or relinquish the idea of a University course. The 

 paucity of Scholarships greatly increases the strain on girls who sit for several Scholar- 

 ship examinations at different Universities in the same year. 



Christ's College, Cambridge. 



I. Average number of scholars and exhibitioners in residence, 40. Nominal 

 value, 20^ to 801. ; but additional grants or reduction of fees, amounting to at most 

 201., are sometimes allowed privately in cases of f)overty. Except there be dis- 

 tinct evidence of idleness, the Scholarship is retained normally to end of third year, 

 sometimes continued to fourth, and occasionally to fifth year. The total average 

 annual amount of the last six years is 1,800L 



II. No two open Scholarships or Exhibitions tenable together, but the value of a 

 Scholarship may be increased. A close Scholarship, connected with a particular 

 School, may be held with an open Scholarship. 



III. No. The amount of a student's income from endowments of all kinds is, 

 however, a factor in fixing the amount of his Scholarship, except in the case of those 

 elected before coming into residence. 



IV. No. 



V. Candidates for Scholarships awarded before residence has commenced are 

 asked to state the minimum value they are prepared to accept, and if they do not 



