Prospective Rhodes Scholars

The Dartmouth committee on the selection of men from the College to be recommended to various state committees which award Rhodes Scholarships picked five seniors to represent Dartmouth before the New Hampshire state committee and approved three other candidates who are seeking scholarships in other states. John Sloan Dickey, of Lock Haven, Pa., Francis Joseph McEntee, of Lynn, Mass., Dudley Wainwright Orr, of Concord, N. H., Ralph Stuart Palmer, of Manchester, N. H., and Carl Bernhardt Spaeth of Cleveland, Ohio, were the men selected as possibilities for the Oxford choice. All are high scholarship men.

R. M. Haywood '26 was recommended to the Arizona committee, Richard Lattimore '26, son of Professor David Lattimore, was recommended to the Indiana committee and John William Wieler '29, received recommendation to the West Virginia committee. The New Hampshire committee will meet December 8 to select a Rhodes Scholar from the recommendations from Dartmouth, New Hampshire State and New Hampshire applicants attending universities outside the state.

The trustees of the Rhodes Scholarships have announced that they are promoting a bill in the English Parliament which will increase the powers conferred upon them under the will of Cecil Rhodes so that they can divide the United States into eight districts of six states each, and can authorize a competition to be held in every state yearly.

Under this plan each state selection committee would nominate one or two scholars to appear before the regional selection committee, which would then appoint the best four of the candidates presented to it. This method retains the present system of approximate geographical distribution among the different parts of the United States, although it no longer guarantees to every state an equal number of appointments. However, it fits in far better with the academic system of the country, makes selection easier, and ensures to a much greater extent the choice of the best qualified man.