The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-24
ONE AWARDED
TO MONTANA
SELECTION or CANDIDATES FOR
RHoADEs SCHOLARSHIPS.
Examination Of Applicants Only In
tended to Give Assurance OF
Their Qualification.

provided TOT the Inherent countries OF
the world has Deen awarded to Mon
tana and any young mar in the state
who is possessed OF the necessary
qualifications may nope to be the Tor
tunate one selected as the beneficiary
OF the bequest.
Doctor Craig, president of the Uni
versity Of Montana, furnishes the fol
lowing extract from the provisions
governing the scholarship in the
United States:
The first election of scholars in the
United States under the Rhoades be-
quest will be made between February
and May, 1904. The elected scholars
will commence residence in October,
1904. A qualified examination will
be held within this period in each
state and territory, or at centers
which can be easily reached. This ex-
animation is not competitive, but is
intended to give assurance that all
candidates are fully qualified to enter
OF q course of stody at oxford uni
yersity. 1t will, therefore, be based
upon the requirements for %responsions
the first public examination exacted
by the university from each candi-
date for a degree.
The Rhoades scholars will be Sc
lected from candidates who have sue
cessfully passed this examination.
One scholar will be chosen from each
state and territory to which scholar
ships are assigned.
Examination Requirements.
The requirements of the responsions
examination, as stated in the statutes
of the University of Oxford, are as
follows:
Candidates must offer the following:
% Arithmetic-the whole; CD either
algebra, division, subtraction, multi
plication, division, greatest common
measure, least common multiple, frac-
lions, extraction of square root, SIM
pie equations containing one or two
4udiIllliCo, d11O III oUICulo
producing such equations. Or geome.
try, Euclid's elements, books 1, II;
Euclid's axioms will be required, and
no proof of any proposition will be
admitted which assumes the proof OF
anything not proved in preceding pro-
positions of Euclid.
(Cl Gvnnl- or1 T .otip uro =, &, ', IN
TRANSACTIONS from English into Latin
prose; (5) Greek and Latin authors.
Selections from the following authors
are mentioned: Demosthenes: Cd
Philippics 1-3, and Olynthiacs, 1-3, or
CD De Corona, Eupripides, any two of
the following plays: Hecuba, Medea,
Alcetis, Bacchae, Homer % Iliad
is, or 2-6; Or CD Odyssey is, or
IS; Plato, Apology and Critic, soph-
ocles, Antigone and Ajax, etc.
Papers covering this range of study
will be prepared by examiners appoint
ed by the trustees, and Will be SEM to
each center, where, at a date publicly
announced, the examinations will be
held under proper supervisors, and
the papers returned to the examiners.
A list of those who have successful
~ passed this test will as soon as
possible be furnished to the chairman
of the committee of selection in each
state or province, or to the university
making the appointment, and from this
list the committee or university viii
proceed to elect the scholars.
Statement of Qualifications.
The committees and universities
making appointments will be furnish
ed with a statement of the qualifica-
tons which Mr.. Rhoades desired in
the holders of his scholarships, and
they will be asked in exercising their
right of selection to comply as nearly
as circumstances permit with the
spirit of the testator's wishes.
They will also be asked to furnish
to the trustees as full a statement as
possible of the school and college ca
reer of each elected scholar, with the
special grounds of his appointment,
together with suggestions, if desired,
as to the course of study for which
he is best fitted.
1t has been decided that all schol-
ars shall have reached at least the end
of their sophomore or second year
work at some recognized degree-grant.
ing university or college of the United
States.
Scholars must be unmarried, and
must be citizens of the United States,
and must be between 10 and 25 years
of age