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III. No general rule imposing a limit. The rule just quoted to some extent 

 secures that there will be no undue accumulation of Bursaries in one person. As 

 regards outside Bursaries over which the University has no control, the case is pro- 

 vided for by a rule that no one shall be entitled to hold a Bursary in the University 

 with any outside Bursary yielding an annual income greater than 201., and tenable 

 during a period of three years. The University authorities may at any time alter 

 this regulation. 



IV. There is a small fund raised some years ago to enable Foundation Bursaries 

 to be supplemented. Two other funds left to the University without any reservation 

 may be devoted to the augmentation of existing Bursaries. 



I do not remember any case, however, where money from any of these sources 

 has been drawn upon for the complete maintenance of any student. Of course, in 

 Scotland, the existence of the Carnegie Fund Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 

 which up till recently practically paid the class fees due by a student qualified to 

 obtain that benefit, forms a considerable supplement to the Bursary Fund. Students 

 may have their fees paid and hold a Bursary of from 151. to 40Z. a year, in which case 

 the latter source of income provides for their maintenance. 



V. (a) and (6) I do not recollect such a case within my experience. Of course, 

 the cases are numerous in which candidates who were relying on assistance from the 

 Bursary Funds have been obliged, owing to their failure to obtain a Bursary or to some 

 other financial casualty, to defer entering the University, or to leave the University 

 midway in their career. No statistics and no definite note has been kept of such 

 cases. I do not think that in the case of a student of exceptional abihty it could 

 easily occur. 



(c) The University is enabled, out of a fund made up of the income from Bursaries 

 which from various causes have lapsed, to provide for the encouragement of students 

 of smaU means where they are known to have merit ; and that more particularly 

 where, having struggled on through the curriculum for an ordinary degree, the student 

 desires to obtain honours. The University Court have provided, to meet that ease, 

 for grants being made to students of the foiirth and fifth year of study. As a rule, the 

 ordinary Bursary or University Scholarship at entrance runs only for three years, in a 

 iiw cases for four. 



University College, DtmsTDEE. 



I. Bursaries, entrance, 12 of 151. ; second year, 4 of 20?., 2 of 151. Third, fourth, 

 and fifth years each one of 201., all tenable for one year only. Other Scholarships 

 and Bursaries in the gift of other bodies or patrons tenable, held mostly at this College, 

 are one of 60Z. for two years ; 2 of 251. for three years ; 1 of 25?. to 30?. for three 

 years ; 5 of 40Z. for three years. 



II. As a rule not ; but exceptions are allowed in special deserving cases. 



III. This question is answered in the negative in reference to Answer II. 



IV. No. 



V. (a) and (6) No. 



VI. A Committee of the College Education Board is at the present moment in- 

 vestigating the whole question of the awarding and tenure of Bursaries concerning 

 the College, whose Report is expected before the close of the current academical year. 



Univeesity of Glasgow. 



I. Reference only to Parhamentary Paper. For undergraduates are provided a 

 large number of Bursaries of which few are over 40?. a year, 60?. being the highest ; 

 tenable mostly for three or four years (the longest tenure is seven years). Exhibitions 

 and Scholarships are aU post-graduate. 



University of Aberdeen. 



I. Reference to Parhamentary Paper. Maximum value, 38?. ; tenure one, two, 

 or three years, mostly four years ; in addition to post-graduate Scholarships there are 

 280 Bursaries of the total annual value of 5,750?. A fund of 322?. is awarded each year 

 in four sums to students who are in special need of pecuniary assistance to prosecute 

 their studies at the University. 



II. No ; but a student may hold a Bursary of the University along with such a 

 Scholarship as the Ferguson, which is open to all Scottish Universities. 



III. No. 



IV. No. 



V. (a) and (&) Not that I am aware of. 



