Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
CECIL RHODES WILL
MORE DETAILS CONCERNING
THAT REMARKABLE TESTAMENT.
Gives His Ideas as to Qualifications
for the Scholarships at
Oxford.


dition to those published in The Star yes
| terday regarding the will of Cecil Rhodes:
The Daily Telegraph says the will of Cecil
Rhodes disposes of an estate of $50, Co.,
co.,
All his great wealth in gold and diamond
mines, amounting to many millions. is de-
voted to the public good. But the bequest
upon which he counted for the promotion
of race unity is that establishing scholar
ships in the great University Of Oxford for
scores of able and ambitious young men
of the United States and the British col
onies
In addition to these he devotes five schol-
arships to Germany, these to be nominated
by the German emperor. His purpose in
this is indicated in the codicil to his will.
telegraphed from South Africa, which con-
tains this comment:
For a good understanding between Eng
land, Germany and the United States will
secure the peace of the world, and educa-
tional relations form the strongest tie"
Mr.. Rhodes leaves his estates in England
to his family and makes a bequest of $50
600 to cousin, James Rhodes, living in the
United States. His landed property in
Matabeleland is given to trustees for the
education of the people of Rhodesia.
Besides the colonial scholarships, Mr.
Rhodes will establishes a fund Of 100000,
600 to endow scholarships at oxford for the
United States and Germany-two to each
state and territory of the United States
and five to Germany Relating to the
American scholarships the will says:
Whereas l desire to encourage and fos-
ter san appreciation Of the advantages
which l implicitly believe will result from
the union of English-speaking peoples
throughout the world, and to encourage
in students from the United States who
will benefit from the American scholar
ships to be established at the University
of Oxford under this my will an attach
ment to the country from which they
sprung, but without, l hope, withdra wing
them or their sympathies from the land Of
their adoption or birth, now, therefore, I
direct my trustees soon may be af
ter my death. and either simultaneously
or gradually as they shall find convenient
to establish for male students the scholar
ships hereinafter directed, each of which
shall be of the yearly value of 200 pounds
and be tenable at any college in the Uni
versity of Oxford for three consecutive
academical years.
81 appropriate two of the American schol-
a1shpS to each of the present states and
territories of the United States, provided
that if any of said territories shall in my
lifetime be admitted a state, the schol-
arships appropriated to such territory shall
be appropriated 20 such state, and that my
ton withhold for such time as they shall
think fit the appropriation Of scholarships
to any territory.
Il direct that Of the two scholarships
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
or territory"
Following is the text of the will giving
the conditions under which the scholarships
are obtainable:
Not for Mere Bookworms.
my desire being that students who shall
be elected to scholarships shall not be mere
ly bookworms. 1 direct that in the election
of a student to a scholarship regard shall
be had to:
Il. His literary and scholastic attain
ments.
80. His fondness for and success In manly
outdoor sports, such cricket, foot BAH
and the like
IS. His qualities of manhood, truth, cour-
age. devotion to duty. sympathy for and
protection of the weak; kindness unset
fishress and fellowship
a. His exhibition during school days of
moral force of character. and of instincts
to lead. and to take an interest in his
schoolmates for these latter attributes will
be likely in after life to guide him to es-
TEEN the performance Of public duties as
his highest aim
Mr.. Rhodes beuueaths to his old college
Oriel, of Oxford, $500 900 free Of all duty,
of which 100000 is to go to the erection
of new college buildings, and $4,000 to be
held as a repair fund.
Mr.. Rhodes will Is a remarkable docu-
ment of over three thousand five hundred
words.
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
no. deserved we'll OF his country. Mr.. Rhodes
bcqueaths all his landed property near Blu
luwayo and Salisbury, both In Matabele-
land, to trustees whom he directs to cult
vate the land for the instruction Of the
people of Rhodesia
His celebrated country place at Groot
Schuur, not far from Cape Town, Mr..
Rhodes leaves as residence for the Prime
Minister Of the Federal Government of
South Africa" with 5000 yearly for it's
maintenance.