Established in 1905 by the generosity of Clara Cooley Jacobus, this honorific fellowship is conferred annually upon the graduate students who, in the judgment of the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School, display the highest scholarly excellence. The fellowship provides

Founded in 1921 in remembrance of the life and character of Moses Taylor Pyne, Class of 1877 and trustee of Princeton University from 1885 to 1921, by his cousin, May Taylor Moulton Hanrahan, the Pyne Prize is the highest general distinction the University confers upon an undergraduate. The Pyne Prize is equivalent in amount to the prevailing undergraduate comprehensive fee for one academic year and is awarded annually to the senior who has manifested in outstanding fashion the following qualifications: excellence in scholarship, character and effective support of the best interests of Princeton University.