MY DEAR LORD ELGIN,

LONDON, 7th June, 1901.

As your Lordship is aware, my desire throughout has been that no capable student should be debarred from attending the University on account of the payment of Fees. I believe that the conditions of application ensure a sufficient standard of merit, and I hope that the honest pride for which my countrymen are distinguished will prevent claims from those who do not require assistance, and that the invidious task of inquiring into the cir cumstances of each candidate need not be imposed upon the Trustees. But, to further mark my personal belief and hope in this matter, I have made provision in the Trust Deed that the Trustees may receive funds from others to be administered along with the funds placed by me. I consider this a valuable clause, believing, from my own experience with young men, that some students in after life may value the privilege of repaying advances received from the Trustees, although these are free gifts. I hope the Trustees will gladly welcome such repayments, if offered, as this will enable such students as prefer to do so to consider the payments made on their account merely as advances which they resolve to repay if over in a position to do so, and that this will protect and foster the spirit of manly independence so dear to the Scot.

Very truly yours,
ANDREW CARNEGIE.

(2) Statement by Parents or Guardians.

The parent or guardian of each applicant is required to make a confidential statement of the financial circumstances of the family for consideration by the Trustees before they make their award.

(3) Application Forms, from whom obtainable.

Those desiring to obtain assistance from the Trust should apply to the Secretary, The Carnegie Trust, The Merchants' Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, for an application form.

Applications must be lodged not later than 25th October for the Winter Session, and not later than 10th May for the Summer Session.

(4) Conditions on which Assistance is Granted. Applicants, when writing for Forms or Class Lists, must name the University or (College) and Faculty in which they intend to study, and must state whether they have or have not previously obtained the benefits of the Trust.

Payments are made by means of Fee Coupons and Fees already paid cannot be refunded.

I. AGE.-Applicants must be over sixteen years of age. II. NATIONALITY.-Applicants must be of Scottish birth or extraction, or must have given two years' attendance after the age of fourteen at a school or institution under inspection of the Scotch Education Department.

III. PRELIMINARY EDUCATION.-Applicants qualified under the two previous regulations who have been pupils of Schools under the Scotch Education Department will be eligible for assistance in the payment of class fees if they have obtained the Leaving Certificate of the Department, provided that it bears evidence of such preliminary education as is required by the Universities for their respective graduating curricula, or if it does not, provided that it has been supplemented by such passes either in the Scottish Universities Preliminary or other examination as will satisfy the above requirement of the Universities.

Where applicants have not been pupils of Schools under the Scotch Education Department, or where other good ground for not having obtained the Leaving Certificate can be shown, the Executive Committee have power to accept instead what they deem equivalent evidence of attainments in the shape of passes gained either in the Scottish Universities Preliminary or other examination, provided that no applicant will be considered eligible who has to pass any further preliminary examination before completing his graduating curriculum.

IV. COURSE OF STUDY.-Applicants in the Faculties of Arts and Science must have had their course of study for each academie year approved by the University Adviser of Studies.

V. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS.-Applicants must have passed the graduation Examinations belonging to the previous stage of their curriculum before becoming eligible for assistance in the payment of fees of classes belonging to a further stage.

Applicants who propose to graduate with Honours in any department or subject must obtain certificates of distinction in the qualifying classes which they have attended in that department or subject, or they must pass the Higher Ordinary or other Special degree examination in these subjects, before a third or fourth allowance can be granted. In cases where no Higher Ordinary or Special degree examination is provided, a report from the heads of The department concerned will be required.

VI. REPORTS ON ATTENDANCE AND WORK.-Beneficiaries come ander an obligation to submit to the Executive Committee at the end of each session particulars as to their attendance and work, any distinctions they may have gained, and any graduation examinations they may have passed.

VII. ANNUAL ALLOWANCES IN THE VARIOUS FACULTIES.-The Annual Allowances towards payment of Class Fees offered to

beneficiaries by the Trust in the various Faculties are as follows: in Arts (Ordinary), £9 for three years, and (Honours), £9 for four years, in all £27 and £36 respectively; in Science (Ordinary), £18 for three years, and (Honours), £18 for four years, in all £54 and £72 respectively; in Medicine, £20 for four years, in all £80; in Dentistry, £15, £15, and £10, in all £40; in Divinity, Music, Law (LL.B.), and Commerce, £7 for three years, in all £21; and in Law (B.L.), £4 for three years, in all £12. Any unexpended part of a Grant will be carried forward to the succeeding year.

VIII. ANNUAL ALLOWANCES IN COMBINATIONS OF FACULTIES.In combinations of Faculties the allowances available for beneficiaries are: (1) Arts and Commerce, three Arts Grants of £9 and two Commerce Grants of £7, in all £41; (2) Arts and Science, two Arts Grants of £9 and three Science Grants of £18, in all £72; (3) Arts and Medicine, two Arts Grants of £9 and four Medicine Grants of £20, in all £98; (4) Science and Medicine, two Science Grants of £18 and four Medicine Grants of £20, in all £116; payment to be made in the order above stated.

VI. BURSARIES.

1. General Regulations.

(1) Bursars to reach a sufficient Standard of Proficiency.

The following rule applies to Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes awarded on the results of Competitions in any Faculty: The Senatus reserves the right to make no award in the event of can. didates failing to reach a sufficient standard of proficiency.

(2) Bursaries Open to Women.

By Ordinance No. 58 of the Universities Commissioners, the University Court was empowered, after consultation with the Senatus, to make regulations for the purpose of appropriating for competition without restriction as to sex or for competition among women students only, who are proceeding to a degree in any Faculty, such number, if any, of open bursaries, which have taken effect prior to 30th August, 1864, as the University Court might think fit. The University Court, on the recommendation of the Senatus, agreed (9th July, 1895), that all such bursaries should be offered for competition without restriction as to

sex.

Except in the case of the bursaries before referred to, women are not allowed to compete for or hold any Bursary which is not expressly open to competition by women by the terms of the

Deed of Foundation. In the lists given below, those Bursaries marked with an asterisk (*) are confined to men only.

(3) Conditions_on which Arts Bursaries are Tenable for a Fourth Year after Graduation.

By Ordinance No. 57 of the Universities Commissioners, Bursaries in Arts heretofore tenable for four years shall continue to be so tenable, provided that, if the holders graduate after the three years' course, they shall only retain their Bursaries during the fourth year of tenure if they shall engage in a course of study approved by the Senatus Academicus in subjects ineluded in the curriculum for Degrees in Arts or in Pure Science. (Section II.) Such students are meantime allowed by the Senatus to retain their bursaries during a fourth year, on condition of their attending any two full courses in Arts or Pure Science.

(4) All Bursars to attend Two Classes each Year.

All Bursars in Arts, subject to the provision as to the fourth year of tenure contained in the immediately preceding section, shall attend in each year at least two classes qualifying for Graduation in Arts, and shall duly perform the work of these classes: Provided (1) that, for the purposes of this section, the classes known as Middle Classes, so long as the same exist, may be attended in place of classes qualifying for Graduation; and (2) that it shall be in the power of the Senatus Academicus, with the approval of the University Court, to permit such Bursars as they shall from time to time select to attend classes qualifying for Graduation in Pure Science in place of classes qualifying for Graduation in Arts. (Section III.) The Senatus has resolved to exercise the power of selection given to it in the above Section in the following cases only:

(a) A limited number of Bursars at the very commencement of their currienlum, who have either distinguished themselves at the Competition in the papers on Mathematics and Dynamics, or who can produce evidence of strong leaning to, and ability in, Chemistry, Zoology or Botany.

(b) Bursars who within two or three Academic years have attended all or all but one, of the courses qualifying for the Degree in Arts, and passed the corresponding Degree Examinations.

The second half of the Bursary is not payable unless it appears that the student has either attained a place in the Merit List or is specially certified by each Professor to be an entirely satisfactory student.

A Bursar who attends only one Class qualifying for graduation during the Winter Session shall receive payment of his Bursary in one sum at the end of the Summer Term provided he has attended a second qualifying Course during that

Term.

(5) Competitors must not have attended University.

It is provided by Section XI. of the Ordinance that no Student who has during a Winter or Summer Session attended any class qualifying for graduation in the Faculties of Arts and Science in any Scottish University, shall be eligible to compete for Bursaries of the first year in the said Faculties.

(6) Eligibility of Bursars.

(a) Must hold Entrance Board Certificate.

No candidate shall obtain a Bursary in Arts who shall not have passed the Preliminary Examination in Arts. (Section X. 3.)

(b) Cannot hold two Bursaries.

No student shall be allowed to hold at one time more than one Bursary except in cases provided for by the regulations.

(7) Presentation Bursaries.

Candidates for Bursaries in Arts, which are not awarded by open competition, shall present themselves for the Preliminary Examination in Arts, and no Bursary shall be awarded to any candidate who shall not have passed the Preliminary Examination in Arts: (Section XV., Ord. No. 57).

Presentees to Bursaries should send in their Presentations to the Secretary of the University of Aberdeen before 11th October, 1928.

(8) Restricted and Preferential Bursaries.

Candidates for such Bursaries must transmit to the Secretary of Senatus certificates that they fulfil the conditions of the Bursaries.

(9) Bursaries for Indian Civil Service, etc., Candidates.

Under a regulation of the Senatus, of date 29th May, 1923, a limited number of Bursaries, tenable for one year, are made available for students who desire to prosecute advanced studies in the University with a view to becoming candidates for the Indian Civil Service and Income Tax Inspectorate. Applications regarding these should be made to the Secretary of Senatus.

2. Faculty of Arts.

(1) List of Bursaries.

The following is a list of the Bursaries tenable in the Faculty of Arts: