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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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38 €n Yean at the University of Illinois Homer A. Still well of Chicago—have increased the fund to about $5,630. A loan fund for the benefit of women students in the School of Pharmacy was established in May, 1917, by the Women's Organization of the Chicago Retail Druggists Association. The initial sum constituting the principal of the fund was $115.24 Several donations to the University have been in the form either of annual prizes offered to the student body or of a sum of money, the income from which was to be offered each year as a prize. Captain W. C. Hazelton provided a medal in 1890 which is awarded annually, at a competitive drill held in May, to the best drilled student. The winner may wear the medal until the fifteenth day of the following May, when he must return it for the next competition. In 1898 Mr. William Jennings Bryan gave to the University the sum of $250, from the interest on which a prize of $25 is offered biennially for the best essay on the science of government. The Champaign and Urbana lodge of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith has donated to the University the sum of $50 annually since 1912 to be awarded in prizes to students in the University for essays on Jewish subjects. Since 1913 the American Law Book Company of New York and Callaghan and Company of Chicago have each offered an annual prize of certain of their publications to students making the highest averages in the senior and second year classes respectively in the College of Law. The local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa offers annually a prize of $25 to that member of the chapter who at his graduation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gives evidence of the greatest promise as a scholar in the domain of liberal arts. In 1913 Mr. Joseph C. Llewellyn of Chicago, a graduate of the University of the class of 1877, established for a period of four years a prize of $50 per annum for a problem in design, the competition being limited to students in architectural engineering. '*MI&,Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI-, 1916-18, p. 297
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