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at the Hall. The full scheme is not yet in operation, but ultimately there shouiu oe, 

 in a Hall of 77 students, about 6 scholars in receipt of about 40Z. a year each, 

 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 60^ 

 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. I do not remember a case of (a) or (6). The College has frequently, on 

 the other hand, assisted students who could not comj)lete their College course without 

 some special assistance in addition to that which they might already be receiving 

 irom 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 is of 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 CoUege 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 

 beUeve, 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 aU 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 wiU be used in accordance 

 with these principles when the College becomes a University in two or three years' 

 time. 



Univeesity College, Aberystwith. 



I. 37 Scholarships and Exhibitions, I of 54Z. ; 3 of 401. ; 1 of 351. ; 1 of 271. ; 

 4 of 30Z. ; 1 of 201. ; 2 of 151. ; 14 of lOl. ; 1 of &. 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. 



III. 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. 



