The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
Undergraduate Is Given
Chance to Study
at Oxford.

BERKELEY. July $50 William
Clark Crittenden, a senior in the col
lege Of letters at the University of Cali
fornia, is given the honor or first rep
resenting his State and university as
a Rhodes scholar at Oxford Univer-
sity. His appointment to the high
est honor in the gift of the university
was announced to-day from the presi-
dents office, the selection having been
made by a committee that was nom
mated for the purpose by President
Wheeler
Crittenden has figured as one of the
leaders of the activities in the univer-
sity, and his selection is received
with general satisfaction. Since coming
to the university he has been identified
in some way or another with most of the
movements of his fellow students. He
was honored with election to the pres
idency of his junior class. He asso-
ciated himself as a staff editor on The
Daily Californian and devoted himself
TO athletics.
Even before coming to the university
Crittenden had achieved some prom
inence. He was one of three young
men TO make a run around the world
against time The three years that he
spent at the Lowell High School in
San Francisco preparing for the uni
versity were notable for the leader
ship to which his fellow students elect
ed him and his prowes as an athlete.
BORN IN MODESTO.
Originally Crittenden came from the
Modesto High School, Modesto having
been the scene of his birth and rearing.
He was born in Modesto twenty-five
years ago. His father is Thomas r.
Crittenden, a man well known in Stan
islaus County.
The selection of Crittenden was made
from among six other candidates for
the Rhodes scholarship. His nomina-
tion was decided upon after a long
struggle in committee. 1t was under
stood that the announcement would
not be made for at least a week yet,
because at last accounts the commit
tee had about decided to review the
qualifications of the candidates. With
! this understanding Crittenden left for
Congress Springs this morning. and he
10 do yet unaware OIL the ROOQ fortune
that has fallen upon him.
The sudden decision of the commit
tee to make public its selection is some
thing of an enigma to the candidates
for the scholarship. While none Of
the committee will speak, il is under
stood that they had split upon the in
depreciation of the provisions of Cecil
Rhodes Will In making the rules the
trustees interpreted the will to mean
that graduate students may be sent
from America, which is allowed more
latitude than South Africa, whence
| only undergraduates will be received.
The California committee, however,
finally agreed to consider only the
undergraduate students in this first
competition, fearing that If it did 9TH
erwise a precedent would be estab-
lished that would be reactionary in it's
effect. This decision left only three
students for the committees consid-
Grafton, Crittenden, c. X. Judy ana
w. j. Musgrove being the only under
graduates. 1t eliminated the -four
Enthusiastically s. Allen, Nj. f..
Deutsch, II. B. Dewing and F. p. Grif-
| flths.
| GRADUATES DiSSAIlSFlED.
Some dissatisfaction is expressed at
, the action of the university authorities
I in delaying so long the Interpretation
| Of the Rhodes will, which could have
been done six months ago as well as
now. The result of the delay has been
a great loss of valuable time to the
| graduates, who studied for and passed
the test, and their futures will have
/ to be materially altered in consequence.
| Some of the disappointed ones even
charge that the university used them
as catspaws so that in case the under
| graduate students could not meet the
! test the graduate students could be re-
! lied upon to furnish representative
T, from the State TO Oxford.
| In choosing the scholar the commit
tee was guided much by the provisions