RHODES SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

The qualifying examination hitherto required of all candidates for Rhodes scholarships has been abandoned it is stated in a circular regarding the scholarships, just issued by the United States department of the interior. Scholars will be selected on the basis of their collegiate or university records, supplemented, if necessary, by any further tests that the committees of selection may, in their discretion, impose.

Withdrawal of the qualifying examination has no bearing on examinations the University of Oxford may see fit to require before granting a degree. Neither, the circular points out, does it change the standards of admission of any of the several colleges at Oxford.

The scholarships left vacant in 1918 and 1919 will be filled this fall. Applications were filed in October. New Hampshire and Vermont are among 16 states electing for 1919 only. Scholars elected for 1919 will go into residence at Oxford in October, 1920.

Attention to the increased cost of living in Britain is called by the circular, which suggests that the scholar go to Oxford prepared to supplement the annual £300 of the scholarship with at least £50 of his own.

The American secretary of the Rhodes trustees is Prof. Frank Aydelotte, M. I. T., Cambridge, Mass. Copies of the memorandum can be obtained from him.