The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-05
WILL OF CECIL RHODES Each State and Territory of United States Bequeathed Two Scholarships
 at Oxford.
FRIENDSHIP THE CHIEF AIM
UNION OF ENGLISH-SPEAKIN
 PEOPLES DESIRED.


 Rope That an Attachment for tn,
 Mother Country WiIl Result Without
 Any Withdrawal of sympathy fox
 America Details of the Requests
 Rhodes Following Out Long Cher
 islled sdca-His Common Fatheriand
 the Great English Speaking People oi
 the United States and Britain.
 London, April 1.-The will of Cecil Rhodes provides for the establishment of colonial scholarships, as previously announced, and that two American scholarships shall go to each of the present states and territories of the United States. It also provides for five scholarships for students of German birth, to be nominated by Emperor William. All the scholarships, Ameri- can, colonial, and German, are at OK ford
 Commenting on the bequest, MT. Rhodes, in a codicil telegraphed from South Africa, said: For a good un- derstanding between England, Ger many, and the United States will secure the peace of the world, and educational relations form the strongest tie'
 MrRhodes' will is a remarkable and voluminous document of over $500 words. Even this is not he entire will, as the executors only gave out the por- tions which they consider to be of pub lie interest. It was executed in 1899. There is codicil attached on the day of his last departure from England, and another, cabled from Cape Town, leaves G4,0OO yearly to keep up the spot in the Matoppo Hills where his body is to be buried. The will further directs that railroad extension be made into the Matoppo Hills, so that visitors may go there at the weekend to inspect the majesty and glory of their surroundings
 MT. Rhodes explicitly says he is to be buried in an aperture, cut in the solid rock, surmounted by brass tablet bearing the words: Here lie the re- mains of Cecil John Rhodes No one else is to be buried there who has not deserved we'll of his country
 MT. Rhodes bequeathes all his landed property near Buluwayo and Salisbury (both in Matabeleland9 to trustees whom he directs to cultivate the land for the instruction of the people of Rhodesia. His celebrated country place at Groot Schuur, not far from Cape Town, he leaves as a residence for the Prime Minister of the Federal Gov ernment of South Africa" with G1,000 yearly for it's maintenance.
 MT. Rhodes divides the G100,000 be- queathed to Oriel college into several funds, indicating concisely how he wishes them to be applied and adds this characteristic sentence: And, finally, as college authorities live se- cluded from the world and so are like children as to commercial matters, I would advise them to consult my trus- tees regarding the investment of these various funds, so far as they would re- aeive great help and assistance from such advice"
 Regarding the Americian scholarships | MT. Rhodes says: T desire to encour age and fosten an appreciation of the l advantages which I implicitly believe l will result from union of the English l speaking peoples throughout the world | and to encourage in the students from | he United States who will benefit by | -hese scholarships an attachment to | he country from which they have | 'prung but without, I hope withdraw ng them or their sympathies from the ! and of their adoption or birth
 The will provides that the executors nay, at their discretion, delay estab- ishing any territorial scholarships un- il such time as they may SC fit but, it provides also that the territorial schal- ,rships once established, shall not opse upon the admission of the terri ory to statehood.
 Another provision is that no student hall be qualified or disqualified for e1- ction to a scholarship on account of race or religious opinion.
 Mir Rhodes desires that the students mould not patronize any particular col ege but distribute themselves through ut the university. The trustees are al- owed to remove or suspenr any schol- r at their discretion.
 
 he trustees will arrange an annual din Ter and re-union for all students and choar graduates who are able to at end and invite thereto as guests "per- ons who have shown sympathy with he views expressed by me in by will'' W. T. Stead wrote the following for he Associated Press. "The will of Cecil .holes is in every respect worthy of it's uthor. With the exception of some amily estates in this country the whole which are left to his own relatives, IT, Rhodes has dedicated his wealth in iamond and gold mines to public uses. ts disposition is dictated by what was yer the dominating principle of his fe
 What renders this will of exceptional 1terest to Americans is the fact that it aveals for the first time, under his and and seal, that he was no mere rtish imperialist but that he was es- l antally a citizen of the United States, , f the English-speaking world. In oth- I
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