Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-05
RHODES WILL
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Another provision Is tnat Iio o'u"
shall be qualified or disqualified Ior
election to a scholarship on account
of race or religious opinion.
Mr.. Rhodes desires that the stuueii'S
should not patronize any particular
college, but distribute themselves
throughout the University. Inc trus-
tees are allowed to suspend or remove
any scholar, at their discretion
Mr.. Rhodes expresses the nope 'iat
the trustees will arrange an annual
dinner and reunion for all students ana
scholarship graduates who are aple 10
attend and invite thereto as guests per
sons who have shown sympathy WIN
the views expressed by me IN my Will
w. II. Stead wrote the following 1or
The Associated Press:
THE will of Cecil Rhodes is in every
respect worthy of it's author. win tne
exception of some family estates IN thiS
country, the whole Of which are lett 10
his own relatives, Mr. Rhodes mas dedi-
,ated his wealth in diamond ana eoiu
mines to public uses. Its disposition
is dictated by what was ever the ooiiii-
mating principle of his life.
What renders this will of exception
III interest to Americans is the fact
that it reveals for the first time, I'M
der his hand and seal, that he was no
mere British imperialist, but that ne
was essentially a citizen of the United
States. of the English-speaking world
Mr.. Rhodes will appoints a Well
Known group of seven of his 1rlehds
IS general executors of his estate. rms
,rOup is further charged to undertake
he duty of acting as trustees for the
EDUCATIONAL endowment fund, OF ex-
optional interest, which will provoke
he liveliest discussion and excite the
':eenest interest throughout the United
states and the British empire. for both
communities share in the beneht OF
Mr.. Rhodes bequest.
Mr.. Rhodes was a i-millionaire,
lot in dollars, but in pounds sterling.
lie was a graduate of Oxford and a
'tudent at Oriei College, to which, by
he way, he has left a special bequest
# 100000. He has made Oxford Uni
'crsity. in whose glories the American
descendants of it's founder share
'qually with those who still inhabit the
I'D country, the center of his educa-
ional scheme, and he has left a sum,
which may be roughly capitalized as
representing $10,000,000, for the founda-
ion of Anglo-American scholarships,
enable at Oxford, for three years.
Mr.. Rhodes, it will be remembered,
vas so impressed with the value of
University education that after he had
)een compelled to break his course at
oxford by ill-health which rendered it
impossible for him to winter in Eng
nd "a
south Africa, in order to complete his
University career. To his thinking, the
University, better than any other in
titution, naturally affords a vivifying
enter of race unity. 1t is free from
II political complications and resi-
lential university, with the old tradi-
ions of Oxford, seemed to him the best
tiled for the purpose he had in view.
when 1 considered with him the
uestion of the choice of the university
which should be selected as this race
enter, the respective claims of Oxford
nd Cambridge, or some American uni
crsity were freely discussed. That
ir. Rhodes settled the question in
avOr of Oxford was due to his devo-
ion to his old university. Mr.. Rhodes,
therefore,, having selected oxford as
us race center, has drawn up a broad
'utline of the general conditions upon
which these scholarships should be
,WarGed.
THE central principle of his scheme
that to every English-speaking col
my and every state and territory in
he American Union should be offered
scholarship of the value of $500 a
Jear, tenable for three years. at Ok
ord. By this means Mr.. Rhodes be-
ieved it would be possible to make
oxford the center of the spirit of race
unity where students from every part
If the English-speaking world would
meet on common ground in the most
famous of the old universities.
What will result in the future pres
ance of Americans and colonials in
what has so long been one of the most
conservative and Anglican centers of
treat Britain, the future must decide.
The influx of SO much American and
colonial blood may have very impor-
tant consequences. at which some of
the old OxOnians would stand aghast.
Having decided that each state or
colonial unit should have one scholar
ship allotted to it every year, Mr..
Rhodes will proceeds to define the
terms upon which these scholarships
should be allotted. Mr.. Rhodes always
opposed the modern ideas of awarding
an educational prize solely for literary
attachments. The tendency to award
scholarship solely for success in
passing literary examinations seemed
to him to put a premium on. book
works. Hence he has drawn up a
scheme for the election of students for
his scholarships. which is extremely
original and very characteristic Of the
man. 1t is as follows:
In the election of a student to a
scholarship regard should be had to:
First his literary and scholastic at
tainments.
Second. his fondness for or success
in manly, outdoor sports, such as cricket.
football and the like
Third, his qualities Of manhood such
as truth. courage, devotion to duty. sym
pathy for and protection of the weak.
kindness, unselfishness and fellowship.
-" Fourth, his exhibition during school
days of moral force of character and in
stincts to lead and take interest in his
schoolmates, for these latter attributes