The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-05
CECIL RHODES WILL
TWO OXFORD SCHOLARSHIPS To
EACH AMERICAN STATE.
FIVE TO GERMAN STUDENTS.
WANTS TO BRING THE THREE
PEOPLES TOGETHER.

The Great Developer of South Africa
shows Broad Views in Disposition
of His Immense Fortune-Wants
IN Attach Americans to England
without Detaching Them From
There own COuntry-WiII BE
hurled in Solid ROck-No One Else
TO Be Baricd There Who Has Not
deserved Well of His Country.
London, April 4.-The will of Cecil
Rhodes provides for the establishment
Of colonial scholarships: two American
scholarships to each of the present
states and territories of the United
states. and five scholarships for stu
dents of German birth, all the sholar-
ships to be at oxford. The German
scholarships are to be nominated by
Emperor William.
Commenting on the bequest, Mr..
Rhodes, in a codicil telegraphed from
South Africa, said:
For a good understanding between
England, Germany and the United
States will secure the peace of the
world, and educational relations form
the strongest tie
Mr.. Rhodes will is remarkable and
voluminous document of more than g.
800 words. 1t was executed in 1899.
There is a codicil attached on the day
of the deceased's last departure from
England and another cabled from Cape
Town, leaving $4,000 yearly to keep
up the spot in the Matoppo
Hills, where the remains are
TO be buried. The will further
directs that a railroad extension be
made into the Matoppo Hills, so that
visitors may go there at the week end
to inspect the majesty and glory of
their surroundings"
Mr.. Rhodes explicitly says he is to
be buried in an aperture cut in the
solid rock, surmounted by a brass
tablet bearing the words:
Here lie the remains of Cecil John
Rhodes
No one else is to be buried there
who has not deserved well of his coun-
try.
For the People and the states.
Mr. Rhodes bequeaths all his landed
property near Buluwayo and Salisbury,
both in Mataibeleland, to trustees
whom he directs to cultivate the land
for the instruction of the people of
Rhodesia. His celebrated country place
at Grootschuur, not far from Cape
Town, Mr.. Rhodes leaves as a resi-
dence for the prime minister of the
federal government of South Africa"
with $1,000 yearly for its maintenance.
Regarding the American scholarships,
Mr.. Rhodes says:
Il desire to encourage and foster an
appreciation of the advantages which
I implicitly believe will result from a
union of the Englishspeaking peoples
throughout the world, and to encour-
age in the students from the United
States, who will benefit by these schol-
arships, an attachment to the coun-
try from which they have sprung; but,
without, l hope, withdrawing them or
their sympathies from the land of their
adoption or birth"
Territorial scholarships, once estab-
lished, shall not lapse upon the admis-
sion of the territory to statehood.
Another provision is that no student
shall be qualified or disqualified for
election to a scholarship on account of
race or religious opinion.
Mr.. Rhodes desires that the students
should not patroniZe any particular
college, but distribute themselves
throughout the university. The trust
ees are allowed to suspend or remove
any scholar at their discretion.
Mr.. Rhodes expresses the hope that
the trustees will arrange an annual
dinner and reunion for all students
and scholarship graduates who are
able to attend end invite thereto as
guests persons who have shown SYM
pathy with the views expressed by me
in my WILL
The Size of Rhodes Fortune.
London, April According to the
Daily Telegraph, the will of Cecil
Rhodes deals with a total of e6,000,0