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Hollis, who also endowed the Hollis without some charitable assistance." Professorship of Divinity and the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, further wished that the administration "avoid nominating now and hereafter Dunces or Rakes as Persons not fit to partake of my Bounty."
The rather unusual requirements that Hollis established for his fund have perplexed the Scholarship Committee.
Bender indicated that "Hollis scholarships will be considered in effect as prizes," and therefore wouldn't affect scholarships which the winners already held.
At present the committee has the names of 41 undergraduates holding scholarships who plan to enter the ministry. Bender stated that there were probably others who meet benefactor Hollis' criteria.
But beyond these requirements, it was Hollis' "mind and will . . . that not less than one third part of the number of Students.....be of that Belief or Persuasion called Baptist, both now hereafter and alwaies." The Scholarship Committee has taken the "not less than one third part" to mean that...