Caption: Booklet - Home Economics Scholarships (1939)
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is eligible for appointment to one of the scholarships. 3. Appointments to Scholarships The awarding of scholarships in Agricultun and Home Economics is made on the following basis: ( a ) Institute recommendation—All candidates must meet the conditions of eligibility as described in paragraph 2 above and must be recommended by the Illinois Farmers' Institute. In making recommendations the Institute will consider the character and energy of the student. It will not recommend candidates, unless, with the concurrence of their parents, they express it to be their purpose to enter the University at the opening of the semester and remain for at least one year. Scholarship applications must be filed in complete form in the Farmers' Institute Office at Springfield not later than the thirty-first day of May of each year. ( b ) Competitive examination—All candidates for these scholarships who have been recommended by the Illinois Farmers' Institute must pass with an average grade of 70 or higher the competitive scholarship examination which is held each year in each county on the first Saturday in June. In counties from which there is more than one candidate, the scholarship will be awarded to the candidate who ranks highest in the examination, if he is otherwise eligible. * Sec examination outline below) ( c ) University registration — All candidates who are awarded scholarships must register in the University for a curriculum in agriculture or home economics at the opening of the semester or summer session when the scholarship becomes effective. Failure to do so forfeits the scholarship. (d) Appointments by President It is pro vided, also, that the President n\ the Universit) ia y appoint suitable c a n d i d a t e s w h e r e the Illi Farmers' Institute has failed to nuke re ommendations. nois
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