The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-02
NOW FOR RHODES
SCHOLARSHIPS
ARRANGEMENT FOR THEIR NO
MGNATtON FROM CALIFORNIA
ARE COMPLETED.

BERKELEY, June 24-The first au-
thoritative statement in regard to the
method in which the Rhodes scholars
are to be chosen in America is contain
ed in a letter just received at the Uni
versity of California from Principal G..
r, Parkin, the special commissioner
of the Rhodes trustees, who recently
visited America to talk over plans with
the leading educators of the country.
To President Wheeler has fallen the
craftsmanship of the committee that
will have charge of the selections for
this state. In o"ler that the APPOINT
ments may be made with fairness to
all the colleges in California. the State
has been divided into three groups.
The two universities will form two
and the smaller colleges of the State
the third of these groups. Every
seventh year these smaller colleges will
furnish their quota.
1t will be more than a year before the
first American Rhodes scholar takes
UP his residence at Oxford, as the first
election will not take plIce until next
spring. A qualifying examination Will
be held i'm each State between Febru-
airy and May of 1904. The purpose of
this examination NIll not BE- COMPETE
tive, but merely to ,atisfy the trustees
that the applicant is fully qualified to
enter upon a course of study at Oxford.
The Rhodes scholars will be selected
from the successful men in these eX-
aminations and in accordance with the
+ apportionment that has been made to
each State and Territory. The re-
quirements of the fesponsion's exam
ination at oxford includes the whole of
arithmetic, either algebra or geometry,
Greek and Latin, grammar, transla-
ton from English into Latin prose, and
Greek and Latin authors.
The committees and universities
that will have these appointments in
charge will be furnished with a state
ment of the qualifications which Cecil
Rhodes desired in the holders of his
scholarships, and they will be asked
in exercising their right of selection
to comply as nearly as possible with
the spirit of the testator's wishes.
They will also be asked to furnish az
full a statement as possible of the
school and college career of each
elected scholar, with the special
grounds of his appointment. One of
the requirements that has been de-
cided on by the Rhodes trustees Is
| that the men selected shall have at
least reached the end of their Sec
ond year ait some recognized degree
granting university or college of the
married citizens of the United States,
| and must be between 10 and 20 years
of age. Where several candidates
present themselves from a single co..
| lege Or university, the committees of
selection will request the faculty to
| decide upon their claims and offer
the name of the candidate chosen by
that college as it's representative in
the final election. Candidates may
elect whether they will apply for the
scholarship in the state in which they
| have acquired the aforementioned
educational qualifications or in their
native state. They must, however, be
prepared to present themselves for
examination in the state they select.
Candidates should, during the month
of January, 1904, notify the chairman
of the committee of selection in the
state or territory for which they APP
ply, or the head of the university APP
pointing to the scholarship, of their
| intention ito present themselves for eX-
animation. The decision of the COM
mittee of selection or the university
making the appointment shall be final
as regards eligibility.
One of the most Interesting features
of the competition is the great amount
of classical study that will be neces-
/ sary to pass the oxford examinations.
The fact that a thorough familiarity
with Greek authors is among the reqiu-
sites will disqualify hundreds of Amer
! lean students. The following is the
! comprehensive list of classical authors,
a reading knowledge of whom is re-
quired bv Oxford: Demosthenes %,
Philippics 1-3, and Ilynthiacs 1-3, or (2)
| De Corona; Euripides, any two of the
following plays: Hecuba, Modes, AL
cestis, Bacchae Homer, Iliad 1-5,, or
20 or (2) Odyssey 1-5, 2-6; Plato, Apo
logy and Critic; Sophocies, Antigone
and Ajax; Xenophon, Anabasis IA or
! 2-5; Caesar, De Bello Calico IA; Cice-
70, Q the first two Philippe orations
or C2) the four Cataline orations, and
In Verrem, act l. or go the orations
! Pro Murena and Lege Manila, or (4)
the treatises De Seneotute or De Ami
citia; Horace, Cd odes IA or (2) satires,
or co epistles; Livy books 81 and 3d.
Virgil, % the Bucolics with books 1-3
of the Aeneid, or (2) the Georges, or
the Aeneid, books Is or Pc