Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-24
Two Will be Establiahed at Oxford
University.
LATE CECIL RHODES IS DONER
Communication From Trustees Of the
Deceased EngIishman's Estate to Be
Sent to Governor A. B. cummins
With Regard to Methods of Selection
Washington, D. G., July IA.

today a special commun1-
cation from Secretary of
State Hay relative to the desires of
the state of Iowa in the matter of the
two scholarships in Oxford Univers-
ity, England, bequeathed to Iowa by
the late Cecil Rhodes.
Secretary Hays Letter.
The letter will be as follows:
The Governor of Iowa.
Sir: l have the honor to enclose
herewith print of a communication
dated June 16,1902, to the United
States Ambassador at London, from
the trustees under the will of the late
Right Honorable Cecil John Rhodes,
with the provisions in the testament
AIRY dispositions of Mr.. Rhodes relat-
ing to the establishment of scholar
ships at Oxford Of students from the
British colonies and the United States.
A perusal of the paper will show
that the trustees are DESTROYS of max
ing regulations with regard to the
method by which qualifications of can
didates are to be ascertained and as
to the examinations, and to this end
request the views of the chief officials
having the control of education in the
various states and territories.
l commend the request to your at
tentive consideration and shall be
pleased to transmit to the trustees
through the United states Embassy
at London any communication on the
subject with which you may favor me.
You will observe that it is the hope
OF the trustees that the students can
be elected In time to go into residence.
In oxford in 1908, SO that your early
attention to the matter is desirable.
have the honor etc,
JOHN HAY.
f, How to Select Students.
The print" referred to consists of
copy Of the letter of B. F. Haws-
sley, one of the trustees, to the Amer
lean ambassador. Joseph H. Choate.
requesting him to transmit copy of
Mr.. Rhodes will to the secretary of
state and that the latter shall COM
nQHnaoate with the governors of the
various states. requesting their views.
Il Is further requested that the leading
educttors in the United States, gale,
Harvard and Columbia being mention
ed), and other national educational
figures, give their opinions relative to
the most practical method of deter
mining the manner Of selecting schol-
ars, who shall become the benefciar-
les IF Mr.. Rhodes generosity.
The Rhodes Scholarship.
Those portions of Mr.. Rhodes will
which will be of interest to the peo-
pie Of Iowa are as followsf
Whereas, desire to foster and en-
courage an appreciation of the advan-
tages which I implicitly believe will
result from the union of the English
spes Hing peoples throughout the world
and to encourage in the students from
the United States who will benefit
from the American scholarships to be
established FOR the reasons above CIV
en- at the University of Oxford under
this my will, an attachment to the
country from which they have sprung
bur without, hope, withdrawing them
or their sympathies from the land of
their adoption and birth, now there
fore I direct my trustees as soon as
may be after my death and either SIM
ultaneously or gradually as they shall
find convenient to establish for male
students the scholarships hereinafter
directed to be established each of
which shall be Of the yearly value of
1880 and be tenable at any college
In the University of Oxford for three
consecutive academical years.
Two In Each State.
appropriate two of the American
scholarships to each of the present
states and territories of the United
States, provided that If any of the said
territories shall in my lifetime be ad-
nnitted as state the scholarship shall
be appropriated in such state, and my
trustees may In their uncomfortable
discretion withhold Tor. such time as
they shall think fit the appropriation
OF scholarships to any territory
direct that of the two scholarships
appropriated to state or territory not
more than one shall be filled up in any
year SO that at no time shall more
than two scholarships be held for the
same state.
Priority Of Scholarships.
The scholarships shall be paid only
out Of income and in the event at any
time Of income being insufficient for
payment In full or all the scholarships
for the time being direct that with
out prejudice to the vested interests
of holders for the time being of schol-
arships) the following order of prior
ity shall regulate payment of scholar
ships:
First, Rhodesia; second, scholar
ships of students from South African
and st. Andrew schools; third, other
colonial scholarships; fourth, Ameri-
can scholarships. In case there shall
not be sufficient income the scholar
ships shall abate in the order mention
ed.
Not Merely Bookworms.
My desire being that the students
who shall be elected to the scholar
ships shall not be merely bookworms,
direct that in the election of a stu
dent to scholarship regards shall be
had to his literary and scholastic at
tainments, his fondness of and success
in manly outdoor sports, such as crick.
ct, football and the like, his qualities
of manhood, truth, courage, devotion
IN duty aymnathv FOR tho nrotao+;,, ,f