Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Ol)e 15. Iff. iDudbY jperKiits !5ttemorial Scl)olarsl)ip This scholarship provides for the board and tuition of one young man from an Eastern preparatory school. It was gi en for the academic j ' ear 1920-1921, and will be given in future, to the best young man candidate as judged by a committee of the faculty appointed for the purpose by the President of the College. The award is made and the following points determined by the credentials from the secondary school of which the successful candidate is a graduate: First. Qualities of manhood, force of character and leadership, 50 points. Second. Literary and scholastic ability and attainments, 30 points. Third. Physical vigor as shown by participation in out-of-door sports or in other ways, 20 points. These requirements are similar to the conditions of the Rhodes Scholarship. This scholarship is founded in honor of T. H. Dudley Perkins, Swarthmore, 1906, who died in the service of his country on Tenth Month 20th, 1918. The qualifications required of the holder of this scholarship are such as Dudley Perkins possessed in a marked degree. The donors of this scholarship are his wife, Alice Sullivan Perkins, ' 04 ; his sister, Marion Perkins Jessup, ' 94 ; and his brother, E. Russell Perkins, ' 11. The first holder of the scholarship is Clarence Howard Carr, ' 24. 22