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...Hale scholarship, with an income of one hundred and forty dollars, and the Gordon scholarship of seventy dollars, have lately been founded, thus making, with the Bancroft, three in the Academy. The school seems to be in a prosperous condition, as one hundred and sixty-eight students are named in the catalogue...
...NEXT year the John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship, founded by Hon. George Bancroft, will be available for the first time." - President's Report...
FROM the Treasurer's Statement we learn that the Kirkland Fellowship at present amounts to about $6,300. It will be remembered that this Fellowship is being established by George Bancroft, who will pay $2,000 a year till the sum of $10,000 is reached, when the income will be devoted to the higher education of some student taken at the discretion of the Corporation from any department of the University. The student thus selected will be allowed to pursue his studies either in this country or in Europe...