Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-15
Will Have One Of Rhodes
Scholarships Next Year.
Some Idea Of Qualifications
Winner Must Possess,
Like His Predecessors He Must 81
Good and Learned.

Watcrville, Me-, Dec. 14.-(SpeciaD.
The naming of the student from
the State of Maine who shall re-
ceive the scholarship at Oxford Uni
versity under the Will of the late
Cecil Rhodes, falls, next year, to
Colby. and the examination will be held
in Waterville. Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Jan. Il and IS. There have not
been as yet any formal registrations
but there are a number of students of
Colby who are contemplating trying
the examinations There is considerable
interest in the terms of the bequest AMI
also in the rules governing the cxami-
nations, which have been changed
somewhat since last year.
1t should be understood that the ex
animation held at this time is competi-
tive only so far as the naming of the
candidate. From the standpoint of the
officials of Oxford it is simply quail
flying. and is merely intended to give
assurance that every elected scholar
| is able to pass the first examination
| which the University demands of all
| candidates for the r. a. degree. The
| Rhodes scholar will be selected from
the candidates who have successfully
passed this examination.
The following are the principal rules
governing the selection Of candidates:
| Candidates must be unmarried, must
be citizens of the Ur,ited States, and
must not be younger than 10 or older
than % years of age on Oct. l of the
year in which they are elected. 1t has
been decided that all scholars shall
have reached. before going into resi-
dcnce, at least the end of the sopho-
more year.
| It may be said in passing that an OK
ception to this rule has been allowed
! in Maceach Esctts. WHORE. at the request
Of the committee Of selection, authority
is given to appoint from the secondary
| schools,
To meet the requirements of the 'rc-
| sronsions' examination candidates VIII
comprise addition, subt action, multi
plication. din ision, greatest common
measure. least common multiple, fra
tons. extraction Of square root, simple
equations containing one or two I'M
known quantities, AMI problems pro-
ducing such equations. In geometry
the examination will cover elementary
questions including pt opcsitiOns enun-
ciated Ivy Euclid. and easy deductions
thcrefrom, and will be set on the fol
lowing subject matter from Euclid $
Elements: Book I, the whole. including
propositions I. IS, II, q; Book II, the
whole, including propOsition 8; Book
III. the whole including propositions
> a, TO- 13. IS, "a Is. %. Any method of
proof will be accepted which shows
clnarness and accuracy in geometrical
reasoning. So far as possible candidates
should aim to make the proof of any
proposition complete in itself.
Greek and Latin grammar.
Translation from English into Latin.
| One Greek and one Latin book. Any
one pf the following will be accepted as
;, book" DemOsthenes De Corona: Eu-
rit,i,les. any two of Hecuba Mcdea. Al
ccstls. Bacchac; Homer, Had, Is or =
or Odyssey Is or IS: Plato. Apology and
Critic; Sophocles, AntiGone and AJAX
| Nenophon, Anabasis. IA or 20: caesar
De Bello Calico. Ii: Cicero. Philippics
H. or In Catilinam Is and In Nerren
Actio |. or pro Murena and pro Legc Ma
Mia. or de Sencctute and de Amlcitia
Horace. Odes IA, or Satires, or Eplstles
Iivy. Books ) and 6; Virgil, the Buconcs
with Books Is of the Aeneid, or The Geor
GIGS. or the Acneid. Books Is or 20
The texts used in setting the eNamina
ton papers will be those OF the series ~
oxford classical texts.
The replies made by candidates Will o.
collected at the close Of each eXamina
ton, and forwarded at the close OF eaci
DAVIS work in scaled parcels to the com
, | At a
A fact of interest in connection with th'
Denomination that is to be taken in Water
: vile is that the University of Oxford mas
; agreed to accept in lieu of ''responsions
examinations, ordinarily required for al
rnission 70 the university the certificates
of ;ts examiners that students have pass
, al This examination: that all schoiar'
a,acted will be excused from that tes
yb.n they come into residence at OXFORD
AS a certificate of exemption from re
snonsiors.' holds good permanently. per
sons who have passed in previous years
If otherwise eligible, need not take the
examination a second time in order Il
heroine qualified as candidates.
As soon as the report of the examiner
hos been received. the chairman OF tn'
o,,,,;ttee Of selection will be furnished
. win a list of the candidates who naV'
ma ssed and are therefore eligible io'
election. ~.
In accordance with the wish OF MI
Rhodes the trustees of the fund desire
tn.t sin the election of a student to &
, schola rship regard shall be had to his mt
erary and scholastic attainments. his
quality of manhood, truth. courage. devo
flor to duty. sympathy for and protection
of the weak. kindness. unselfishness an'
: fellowship, and his exhibition during
; scbool DAYS Of moral force and charac
ter and of instincts to bad and lake al
7 interest IN his schoolmates."