Regional Scholarships
President Hopkins announced last month that a number of Regional Scholarships would be established as four year awards for undergraduates of outstanding excellence whenever funds become available for this purpose. Six such scholarships, representative of three states are announced, to become operative with the class of 1934 entering college in September. Once awarded a Regional Scholarship will be continued as long as the recipient remains an undergraduate in good standing, and is eligible for scholarship aid. President Hopkins said that each of the six scholarships now established will carry an award of $700 per year and that those set up in the future would provide a similar amount.
From the entering class next year will be chosen two students from California, two from Connecticut and two from New Hampshire to be the first recipients of the newly created Regional Scholarships. Two awards, which will be in force for four years in each
case, subject to certain requirements made of all students receiving scholarship aid, will be made to two members of the class of 1934 from California based on a generous gift of $100,000 by Mrs. William P. Johnson of San Francisco as a memorial to her husband, William Pierce Johnson, of the class of 1880. Two Connecticut students will next year be awarded the Regional Scholarships from that state based on the $117,000 bequest of Charles F. F. Brooker of Ansonia. Students who are graduates of the high schools of or residing in or near Torrington or Ansonia, Conn., if of required outstanding distinction will be given preferential consideration under the terms of Mr. Brooker's will. The two $700 scholarships to be awarded annually to entering students from New Hampshire will be provided from funds derived from the proceeds of timber cuttings on the Second College Grant, a tract of land in northeastern New Hampshire given to the College by the State of New Hampshire in 1807.
A committee recently appointed by President Hopkins is now studying the system of granting scholarship aid at Dartmouth with a view to making recommendations to the President and the board of trustees for the revision of this. Prof. F. J. A. Neef, chairman of this committee, stated that the administration of the Regional Scholarships is now being discussed. Until the trustees designate the way in which the applicants are to be chosen, inquiries concerning the scholarships should be addressed to Dean E. Gordon Bill, a member of the scholarship committee. The other members are Prof. Charles L. Stone, Max A,. Norton and Robert C. Strong.
The last 15 years have shown a great increase in the amount of general scholarship aid granted Dartmouth students. In the year 1914-15, $31,193 was awarded to needy undergraduates. Of this amount, $9246 or 29.6 percent came from the general funds of the College. The last figures available show that $110,425 was in 1927-28 granted to students in the form of scholarship aid. This considerable increase in the amount of aid granted indicates the desire of the administration and the trustees to make available the maximum which can be secured for such aid. The establishment of the six Regional Scholarships, and the President's statement that similar scholarships from other -states are eagerly desired and would be set up as soon as funds became available is additional evidence that the rapid progress made during the past few years in developing scholarship aid will be continued.
