The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-07-31
Southern Railway
Offers Scholarships,

President Finley, of the Southern
Railway Company, has announced
that all arrangements have been COM
pleted for the award of Southern
Railway scholarships in agriculture in
the State Agricultural College of each
State traversed by the lines Of the
Southern Railway company and the
companies associated with it in farm
Improvement work, so that the schol-
arships may be awarded prior to the
beginning of the school year this fall.
The purpose of the management of the
Company to award these scholarships
as means of supplementing the ex-
tensiye work which the Company is
doing for the Improvement Of agricul-
ture in the territory traversed by it's
lines South of the Poto LAC and Ohio
rivers and East of the Mississippi was
announced last February. The selec-
tion of the young men who will re-
ceive the scholarships has been placed
entirely in the hands of the President
of the State Agricultural College in
each State and all correspondence
relative to the matter should be ad-
dressed to him.
The general plan in accordance with
which the scholarships will be award.
ed is as follows:
First. The scholarship shall be
awarded to boy, preferably from the
farm, Lying IN county, within the
State, traversed by line of one of the
railway companies participating in the
award.
Second. The boy must meet the
entrance requirements of the college.
Third. The boy must be financially
unable to aYai4 himself of an agricul-
tural college education without assist
ance. Provided, that the President of
a college, if he deems it advisable,
may divide the total amount awarded
to such college.among two or more
boys who may be able to defray part
of their expenses fro other sources.
Fourth. Subject to the above con-
ditions, the president of each college
for which scholarships are to be award
ed may determine for himself the
method of selecting the boys to whom
they shall be awarded. The manage
ment of the Railway Companies, be-
heving that the best results will be
obtained if the selection Of the boys
shall be left entirely to the college au-
thorities, will not participate in such
selection in any way or recommend
the award of scholarship to any par
ticular boy.
Fifth. Each.boy to..whom schol-
arship may be awarded must main
tain good standing in his classes
throughout his entire college course
and must conform sto 1.-The rules and
regulations of the college. The au-
thor1ties of the college. shall have full
and final authority to determine the
degree of delinquency or of insubordi-
nation that shall constitute grounds
for the wlthdrawal.of the benefits of
scholarship fromsany student. In no
case shall beneficiary of scholar
ship be permitted to.appeal from any
act or decision.of the college authori-
ties to the railway companies.
Sixth. In colleges in which it is
customary to send to the parents or
guardians of students periodical re-
ports as to their standing and conduct,
such reports as to the benefciaries of
railway scholarships shall be forward
ed to the President of the Southern
Railway Company, as well as to the
parent or guardian.
Seventh. Each beneficiary of a
scholarship shall be required to sub
scribe to an agreement that he will,
for at least three years after the ter
mination of his course in college, de-
vote himself to practical farming in
territory contiguous to a line CT one of
the railway companies participating
in the award or to teaching agricul-
ture, or working on an experimental
farm, in some state traversed by the
lines of one of the railway companies
participating in the award.