The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-05

ton that after he had been compelled 1 to break his course at Oxford by ill-
 health, which rendered it impossible for
 him to winter in England, he returned every summer from South Africa in or
 der to complete his university career. | To his thinking the university, better than any other institution, better at~ 1 lords yivifylGg center of race unity.
 It is free from all political complica- ! tions, and a residential university, with the old traditions of Oxford, seemed to | him the best fitted for the purpose he l had in view, When l considered With 1 him the question of the choice of the 1 university which should be selected as | this race center the respective claims ot Oxford and Cambridge, or some Amer | ican university, were freely discussed. | That Mir Rhodes settled the question 1 in favor of Oxford was due to his devo- | ton to his old university. MT, Rhodes, l therefore having selected oxford as his race center, has drawn up a broad out | line of the general conditions upon which these scholarships should be awarded
 'The central principle of his scheme is that to every Engl speaking colony and every state and territory in the American Union should be offered a. scholarship of the value of $l 300 a year, tenable for three years, at Oxford. By
 this means Mr. Rhodes believed that it
 would be possible to make Oxford the
 center of the spirit of race unity where
 students from every part of the Eng
 lish-s speaking world would meet, on
 fg,,, of
 the old universities.
 What will result in the future pres
 ence of Americans and colonials in
 what has so long been one of the most
 conservative and Anglican centers ot
 Great Britain the future must decide
 The influx of so much American and
 colonial blood may have very important consequences. ct 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, Mir
 Rhodes will proceeds to define the
 terms upon which these scholarships should be allotted MT. Rhodes always opposed the modern ideas of awarding an educational prize solely for literary attainments. The tendency 10 award scholarship solely for success in pass ing literary examina lions seemeo to him to put premioum on book works, Hence he has drawn up a scheme for the election of students for his scholar ships which is extremely original and characteristic of the man It Is as fol- lows:
 "In the election of student to a In i,o pt ,hp 1,a baH tn.
 "Ftrst-His literary and scholastic at tainments
 "Second--His fondness for or success in manly outdoor sports, such as crick- ct, football and the like,
 "Third-His qualities of manhood, such as truth, courage, devotion to duty. sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindlness. unselflshness and fellowship.
 'Fourth-His exhibition during school days of moral force of character and in- stincts to lead and take interest in his school l-master, for these latter attrib- utes will likely in after days guide him to esteem the performance of public duties as his highest aim.
 Marks for those four qualifications should be awarded somewhat in the fol- lowing proportions;, 4-1Q for the first, 1-1O for the second, 3-10 for the third and 2-10 for the fourth.
 Marks for the several qualifications should be awarded independently as Is to say. marks for the first qualification by examina ton, for the second and third qualified tions, re- spectively. by the ballot of fellow stu dents of the candidate, and for the fourth qualification by the head mas ters of the schools; and the result of the award-that is to say, the marks by each candidate for each alification-should be added together and the successful student be the one | who received the greatest number of | marks, giving him the highest all-round i, 
 His object in laying down these con- ditions was to secure the best men for | the worlds fight to bring them together | in one center and to secure for them the | best education obtainable. He has un- | succeeded in changing what | he calls the dull monotony of modern | 
 "Of MT. Rhodes political will and | testament it suffices to say that there ! stands in it's forefront the promot ion of the unity of English speaking races, and although it is not laid down spscf- | rally in his will, in written statements ! in which he has expressed his political i ideas he has specifically set forth that the key to the practical solution of the | question is to be found in a copy of the | of the United States.
 What an awful thought it is,' he writes, that if even now we could ar- range with the present members of the United States assembly and our House of Commons the peace of the world would be secured for all eternity. We could hold q federal parliament, five |, years in Washington and five in Lon don The American has been taught the lesson of home rule and of the sue cess of leaving the management of the local pump to the parish beadle. He loes not burden his house of commons with the responsibility of cleansing the parish drains. The present position of the English house is ridiculous. You night as well expect Napoleon to have 'ound time to have personally counted 1 ls dirty linen before he sent 1t to the wash and to have recounted it upon its 'eturn
 "I have said enough however, to show that MT. Rhodes last political will 1 lnd testament is as remarkable as the 'areer of which it remains a worthy