Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-05
DOWRY FOR MEMS EDUCATION
Cecil Rhodes Will to Promote Union Of
English Speaking Races.
w. T. STEAD COMMENTS ON TESTAMENT
Asserts Document shows Author Not
as Mere British ImperIaIist, hut
Citizen OF EnEIIsb-Speak-
ing World.
W 7. STEAD COMMENTS ON TESTAMENT


in my lifetime be admitted as a state.
scholarships appropriated 10 such territory
shall be appropriated to such states, and
that my trustees may. in their uncontrolled
discretion, withhold for such time as they
shall think ft the appropriation OF schol-
/ direct that of the two scholarships APP
propriated to a state or territory not more
Than one shall be filled up in any year. so
that at no time shall more than two schol-
arships be had for the same state or terri
Conditions Attached.
The following is the text of the conditions
under which the scholarships are obtain
able:
My desire being that students who shall
be elected to scholarships shall not be
merely bookworms, | direct that in the
gard shall be had d) to his literary and
scholastic attainments; % his fondness Of
as cricket, foot ball and the like; 90 his
qualities of manhood, truth, courage, de-
votion to duty, sympathy for and protec-
ton of the weak, kindness. unseldshness
and fellowship, and ~ his exhibition dur
ing his school days Of the moral force and
character and of the instincts to lead and
lake an interest I'm his schoolmates, for
these latter attributes will be likely IN
after life TO guide him TO the esteem ana
performance of public duties as his highest
As more suggestions for the guidance of
those who will have the choice of students
for scholarships | record that: -,
First. My ideal qualified student would
COnlDlne these IOuI QUALIFICATIONS III pIOpOI-
tions Of threatening for the first, two
tenths for the second, three-tenths for the
third and two-tenths for the fourth
qualification. so that according to my ideas
Ii the maximum number of marks for any
scholarship were 200 they would be appor-
toned as follows: Sixty to each of the
first and third qualifications and forty to
each of the second and fourth qualihca-
tons.
Second. The marks for the several quail
hcations would be awarded independently,
as follows: Marks for the first qualification
quail i~cations, respectively, by ballot by
fellow students of candidates, and for the
fourth qualifCat ton by the head master of
the candidates school; and,
Third. The results of awards would be
sent as soon as possible for consideration
to the trustees or some person, appointed
to receive that same, who would ascertain
by averaging the marks in blocks of
twenty marks each Of all the candidates of
the best ideal qualified student. No stu
dent shall be qualified or DISQUALIFIED for
election to scholarship on account of his
race or religious opinions.
Additional st%ipuIatiOna.
The will further provides tina the final
election to scholarship shall be, by the
trustees after consultation with the minis
ter controlling. education In each colony,
must take up his residence at some Oxford
college within six months after election,
payment of scholarship to with
Rhodes bequeaths to his old oriel college
Of Oxford the sum OF RlOO,OOC, free OF all
uulH, OI WHICH 1fbsOOV IN W kO " AAIt
ton of new college buildings and 10000 to
be held as a repair fund.
w. It. stead's Comments.
w. t. Stead wrote the following for the
Associated Press:
T will Of Cecil Rhodes is in every re-
spect worthy of its author. With the ex-
ception of some family estates in this
country, the whole Of which are left to
his W relatives. Mr.. Rhodes has d.
reeted his wealth in diamond and gold
mines to public uses. Its disposition Is
dictated by what was ever the dominating
principle Of his life.
What OF this will that is of exceptional
interest to Americans is the fact that It
reveals for the first time, under his hand
and seal, that he was no mere British i'm
perialist, but that he was essentially e
citizen of the United States-of the Eng
lish- speaking world. In other words, his
will proves how accurately l interpreted
his sentiments when l declared, on the
strength of many intimate and confidential
conversations, that he recognized as his
common fatherland the great English
speaking community, which includes the
British empire with its ample frontiers
within its lines.
"Mr. Rhodes first will was made in Sep
| temDtT, 1901 when ne was u young nun
Of "a. At that time he was only Begin
ming to amass wealth, which before he died
had made him a multi-millionaire. not in
dollars, but in pounds sterling. His last
will was dated July 1, 1899, But the
two documents are essentially alike in
sentiment. They both embody in express
terms what was ever the master thought Of
his master mlnd-the necessity for promot-
ing the reunion OF the English-speaking
race.
Remember Alma Mater.
"Mr. Rhodes will appoints a we'll known
group Of seven OF his friends as general
executors Of his estate. This group is fur
Their charged to undertake the duty of act
ing as trustees for the educational endow-
ment fund, which will provoke the ~liveliest
discussion and excite the keenest interest
throughout both the United States and the
British empire, for both communities share
In the benefit OF Mr.. Rhodes bequest.
"Mr. Rhodes was a graduate Of oxford
and a student at Oriel college. TO which,
by the way, he has left a special bequest of
$500, 900. He has made oxford university,
In whose glories the American descend
ants Of its founders share equally with
those who still inhabit the old country
the center OF his educational scheme and
he has left a sum, which may roughly be
capitalized as representing $40, OO0, 900, fol-
the foundation OF Anglo scholarships, ten.
able at Oxford for three years.
"Mr. Rhodes, II will be remembered, wal
so impressed with the value OF a univer
sity education that. after he had been com
PEELED to break his course at oxford, by Il
health, which rendered II impossible 10
him to winter in England, he returne,
every summer from South Africa, in orde
10 complete his university career. To hi
thinking. the university, better than an
other institution, naturally affords a vivify
ing center of race unity. 1t is free froI
all political complications. and a reslden
tial university, with the old traditions q
oxford. seemed to him the best fitted 10
the purpose be had in view.
y When discussed with him the questio
OF the choice OF the university whic
D should be selected as this Tace-center, tn
respective claims Of oxford and Cambridge
or some American university. were freel
discussed
Cannot Gavin with Choice.
THAT Mr.. Rhodes settled the question 1
l favor of Oxford, was due to his deyotlo