Smyrna times., 1923-05-23
SIXTY SCHOLARSHIPS TO Be
GIVEN AS AID TO TEACHERS
SEVENTEEN OF THESE WILL
COME TO KENT COUNTY
State Board of Education Announces
Rules and Conditions Adopted For
Securing These Scholarships

securing lneSe scholarships
The rules and regulations govern
ing the granting of scholarships in |
the elementary training department |
Of the University of Delaware, were
announced recently by the State
Board of Education. Sixty scholar
ships are provided for and are divided
as follows: New Castle and Kent
! County each II and Sussex County 26
/ Preliminary examinations will be held
on the third Saturday in June at the
Wilmington High School, State House
in Dover and the Courthouse at
Georgetown. The bulletin issued by
the State Department follows: :Section
! 6S, School Laws of Delaware, 1923,
reads as follows: "In order TO assist
i'm supplying the serious need of
trained elementary teachers in this
State, the State Board of Education is
authorized and empowered to create
scholarships at the University of Del
aware, not exceeding sixty 600 in
number, whereby a sum not exceeding
two hundred $4,000 dollars per school
year for each scholarship shall be con
tributed to the expenses at the said
University Of any person approved by
the State Board of Education who
shall receive training at the Univer-
sity to teach in the elementary schools
of this State and who shall give the
State Board of Education satisfactory
assurances that he or she will teach
in the elementary schools of this State
for the period of at least two years
Immediately following his or her
graduation. The State Board of Edu-
cation shall make rules and regula-
tiOns as it shall deem necessary to
carry into effect the provisions of this
section, and to secure the faithful full
fillment of all promises or undertak-
ings of persons receiving scholarships
hereunder. In compliance with the
above section, the State Board of Edu-
cation has adopted the following rules
and regulations:
Who Are Eligible For Scholarships.
Graduates of four-year high schools
who have made a general average of
at least so per cent in the last two
years of their high school course.
Teachers, not graduates of a four
year high school, whose preparation,
Experience and rating may indicate
to the State Board of Education and
to the University authorities, ability
to pursue successfully the source re-
quired. Every applicant must file
with the State Board of Education a
certificate from a legally qualified
physician, showing that he or she is
free from any disease or physical de-
feet that might interfere with his or
her success as a teacher. Every ap-
plicant must also file a certified tran
script of his or her high school record,
if graduate of the Wilmington High
School or a high school outside of
Delaware, but see Rule 2. Hugh
school records of DelaaWre graduates,
subsequent to 1919, are already on file
in the office of the State Board of
; Education. Every applicant who is a
} graduate of a high school and who has
! no teaching experience, must also file
/ a letter from his or her superinten-
t dent or high school principal, setting
5 forth that in his opinion the attitude,
ability and moral qualities of the APP
plicant are such as to lead him to be-
: lieve that he or she would make a
: successful teacher. Every applicant
: shall be required to pass a satisfac-
tory intelligence test and also a test
} in English Composition; such tests
: will be given simultaneously in the
= Wilmington High School, the State
e Capitol and the Courthouse at
: Georgetown, on the third Saturday in
i June at 10 A. NJ, standard time, and
S at such other time as may be neces-
sary.
: Successful Applicants Must Teach
Every applicant who satisfies the