JENKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDED

The University has received a gift of $5,500 to establish the Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad Law.

Robert Darrah Jenks died on January 22, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pa. He prepared for College at the Penn Charter School, graduated from the University in the Class of 1897 and after a year of railroading took up the study of law. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association, and from 1912 to 1915, chairman of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League.

Scholarship a Joint Gift.

The scholarship is the joint gift of his mother, Mrs. William Furness Jenks, and his wife, Mrs. Robert Darrah Jenks, who is at present engaged in Y. M. C. A. work abroad.

This is the second scholarship to be established in the University within the past week. A fund set aside for maintaining aid for students who have shown excellence in English was announced by the University last Saturday as the donation of Henry E. Meeker '89, of New York City.