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1920]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The amount of the scholarship will be $500 a year and the scholarship will be awarded to the young lady as chosen by a committee appointed by your college to make such a selection. We think it advisable that this be a senior scholarship, awarded to a girl at the completion of her junior year, though, in case you should decide that it would be better, in your particular section, to make it a graduate scholarship, awarded at the end of the senior year, we would, of course have no objections. You will notice that our provisions as outlined are, more or less, general and you could, of course, work out the details as you thought best, considering the course of study which you have to offer. Your formal acceptance of this scholarship is all that will be required, though we would, of course, want to be notified as to th.e winner and would appreciate a full report as to just how the award is to be made. Yours very truly,

THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR COMPANY,

DALE E. ANDREWS,

Advertising

Manager.

CONDITIONS

Realizing the importance of the dairy industry in our national affairs and the desirability of encouraging young women to take a more active part In the development of this industry, Mr. P. M. Sharpies, President of the Sharpies Separator Company, West Chester, Pennsylvania, desires to encourage such an interest by the award of a scholarship to be known as the Sharpies Prize Scholarship. It is the purpose of this scholarship to encourage young women not only to make a study of the production of dairy products and their value as food, but also to equip them to engage in a public service work after graduation that would assist in the education of the American public to the necessity of a greater and more intelligent consumption of all dairy products. Following are the provisions of the Sharpies Prize Scholarship, the details of which are to conform to the requirements of the individual college: 1. The scholarship is to be known as the Sharpies Prize Scholarship. 2. The amount of the scholarship will be $500 yearly. 3. The Sharpies Scholarship is to be a senior scholarship, to be awarded to a young woman at the completion of her junior year. Applications may be considered from those who have completed five terms and the details of the award are to be determined by the scholarship committee appointed by the college. 4. Any young lady in the college, whether she be enrolled in the agricultural, dairy, or home economics department, is eligible for the scholarship. It is suggested that the award be made by a committee appointed by the faculty of the College of Agriculture to applicants, on the recommendation of the departments of home economics and dairy Industry, on the basis of scholarship, moral character, special training, and special fitness for responsibility in the dairy field. 5. The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage women to enter the field of the dairy industry, especially along educational lines, and the winner of the scholarship should assure the committee that at least one year following graduation will be devoted to public service work along Buch lines.