RESUMPTION OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITIONS

Professor Frank Aydelotte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trustees, has sent out the following preliminary announcement relative to the resumption of Rhodes Scholarship competition:

"1. DATE: As announced recently through the Press, appointments to Rhodes Scholarships in the United States, which were postponed for the duration of the war, will be resumed in October, 1919. There will be elections in all states and sixteen states, which, under normal conditions, would have appointed Scholars both for 1918 and 1919, will be allowed to appoint two scholars this year. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin. All other states will elect one scholar each.

"2. GENERAL REGULATIONS: The Rhodes Will provides for two Scholars constantly at Oxford from each state in the Union. Each Scholar stays three years and receives a stipend of three hundred pounds a year, out of which he pays his tuition, fees, and expenses exactly as any other student. There are no restrictions as to subjects which he should study; Rhodes Scholars may take any of the various Oxford Honor Schools, or. if prepared, may work for the Oxford research degrees of B. Litt., B. Sc., B. C. L., or Ph. D. Candidates must be unmarried, between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five, and must have completed at least their second year in college. Candidates may try for the appointment either from the state in which they reside or from that in which they have received the major part of their education.

"3. ABANDONMENT OF QUALIFYING EXAMINATION: The qualifying examination which has been required of all candidates for Rhodes Scholarships in the past is now to be abandoned and it will only be necessary for candidates to make formal application endorsed by the authorities of their college or university. The selection will be made in the future, as in the past, on the basis of a man's record in school and college according to the four points outlined in the Rhodes Will; (1) Scholarship, (2) character, (3) interest in outdoor sports, and (4) interest in one's fellows and instincts for leadership. Of these qualifications the greatest emphasis is laid on the first two.

"4. METHOD OF SELECTION: The selections will be made by committees in each state constituted for that purpose. A list of the names of the men to whom applications should be made, together with a formal application blank, will be printed in June and copies will be sent to any address upon application to Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Meanwhile further questions concerning the Scholarships should be addressed to the American Secretary; applications made directly to him will be forwarded to the proper officers in each state."