Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-11
RHODES Scholarships
Secretary Hay Will Write the
Governor About Iowa's Two
Students.
Wants Sugges tions From All Edu.
Gators as to Best Way OF Sc.
lecting Beneficiaries.
The Provisions Of Rhodes Re.
markable Will for Unifcation
of the World.
special to Times Republican.

| Hay relative to the desires of the state
of Iowa in the matter of the two schol-
arships in Oxford University, England
hequeathed to Iowa by the late Cecil
Rhodes.
| The letter will be as follows:
1 His Excellency, n. b. Cummins, the
Governor of Iowa-Sir: l have the
honor to enclose herewith a print of a
communication dated June 16, 1902, to
the United States ambassador at Lon
don, from the trustees under the will OF
the late Right Honorable Cecil John
| Rhodes, with the provisions in the tes-
| tamentary dispositions of Mr.. Rhodes
relating to the establishment of schol-
arships at oxford of students from the
British colonies and the United States.
az perusal of the paper will show
that the trustees are DESTROYS of MAX
ing regulations with regard TO the
method by which qualifications of cam
ddates are to be ascertained and as to
the examinations, and to this end re-
quest the views of the chief officials
having the control of education in the
various states and territories.
Il commend the request to your at
tentive consideration and shall be
pleased to transmit to the trustees thru
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
CT the trustees that the students can be
elected in time to go into residence in
Oxford in 1903 so that your early at
tention to the matter is desirable. !
have the honor, ETC., JOHN HAY"
The print" referred to consists of a
copy Of the letter of Mr.. b. Il. Hawks
ley, one of the trustees. to the American
ambassador. Mr.. Joseph III. Choate, re-
ouesting him to transmit a copy of Mr..
Rhodes will to the secretary of state
and that the latter shall communicate
With the governors of the various states
requesting their views. 1t is further
requested that the leading educators in
the United States (Yale Harvard and
Columbia being mentioned) and other
national figures give their opinions
CT determining the manner of selecting
scholars who shall become the beneii-
Charles of Mr.. Rhodes generosity.
Those portions of Mr.. Rhodes will
which will be of interest to the people
Of Iowa are as follows:
"Whereas, / desire to foster and en-
courage an appreciation of the advan-
tages which L implicitly believe will re-
suit from the union of the English
speaking peoples turnout the world and
10 encourage in the students from the
United States who will benefit from the
American scholarships to be established
for the reasons above given at the unl-
versity of Oxford under this my Will,
an attachment to the country from
which they have sprung, but without. l
hope withdrawing them or their SYM
pathies from the land of their adoption
o. birth, now therefore | direct my
trustees as soon as may be after my
Death, and either simultaneously or
gradually as they shall find convenient.
to establish for male students the schol-
arships hereinafter directed to be es-
tablished, each of which shall be of the
yearly value of $500 and be tenable at
ford for three consecutive academical
years.
II 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 adj
mitted as state the scholarship Shall
be appropriated to such state, and my
trustees may in their uncontrolled dis
erection withhold for such time as they
shall think fit the appropriation of
scholarships TO any territory.
81 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.
1.-THE scholarships shall be paid only
out of the income and in the event at
any time of the income being INSULT
cient for payment in full of all the
scholarships for the time being l direct
that (without prejudice to the vested
interests of holders for the time being
of scholarships the following order of
priority shall regulate payment of
scholarships:
First. Rhodesia; second, scholarships
of students from South African and ST.
Andrew schools third. other colonial
scholarships: fourth, American scholar
ships. In case there shall not be suffi
Gent income the scholarships shall
abate i'm the order mentioned.
My desire being that the students
who shall be elected to the scholarships
shall not be merely book worms, I di-
rect that i'm the election of student to
II scholarship regards shall be had to
bis literary and scholastic attachments,
his fondness of and success in manly
outdoor sports. such as cricket, foot ball
end the like, his qualities of manhood,
truth, courage, devotion to duty, sym
pathy for the protection of the weak
k,ndlness, unseldshness and fellowship
and his exhibition during school days of
rnoral force of character and of in
stincts to lead and to take an interest in
his schoolmates. for those latter attri-
flutes will be likely in after life to guide
HIM to esteem the performance of pub
lie duties as his highest aim.
Grace and religious opinions are no
bar to qualification.
"The money allowance will begin as
soon as residence in Oxford is admitted
I'm order that the scholars past and
present may have opportunities of
meeting and discussing their expert
ences and prospects. | desire that my
trustees shall annually give a dinner to