Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14

the reception intended for them by the
I founder OF the scholarships
That Cecil Rhodes was to the very
marrow OF him mAterialist ana at
the same time dreamer Of dreams
who sought the IDEAL stands as an ac-
ceptcd fact. Shrowd, unscrupul,Js, big
Drained, % man who thought 10 contin-
cuts, who ran his hand over The map
of Africa from the cape to tha great
lakes aud said IAN this for ii gland
AL for England, that ls my dream
and YET aid not scruple 90 rob his own
partner by undorhanl means That Ia
tuc paradox Wp call Cecil Rhodes.
That is % fraction Of this unsolvcd
enigma who know no scIupic IN action
-1ud lcft his immense fortune o golden
strand To bind the s.cllIng
race together, to carry 10 England the
Nirllo blood ana energy OF thc lands
that have sprung from her ana 90 take
lack To them the splendil traditions ot
which oxford has been the ccat'r for a.
thousand years Hurd-headgl Cynr
and dreamer Cecil Rhodes stands in "a
niche by himself
This is his ideal Of an American
scholar as he sets n forth I'm IFS Nill;
My desire bclng that Tho students who
are elected TO the scholarships shall
In the election Of a student:
First-Regard shall Doe had To his lit
crnry ana scholastic uttainmcnis
Socond-ro his fondness for aud sue
cess In manly outdoor sports, such as
cricket. football ana the Ike
Thrd-To his qualities Of manhood,
truth, courage, devotion 10 duty, sym-
PATTY for and protection Of the weak,
kindness, unselilshness and fellowship,
and
Fourth-To his exhibition during
scho0ldays Of moral force of character
and of Instincts to lead and to take an
interest I'm his schuolmates For these
latter attributes would DE likely In aft
er life to guide him TO esteem the per-
formancc Of public duties as bis high
est aim
As suggestions ! would record that
my dealFstudent would combine three
tcnths Of the first, two-tenths OF the
se4pnd three tenths Of the third, and
tWo-tenths of the fourth qualifications,
SCHOLARS WERE DIVIDED
TO prevent the selected scholars from
overseas from forming a clique among
themselves, they were apportiOned, up
on their arrival at oxford, TO different
colleges, not more than six Of them GO
ing TO any one college of the u which
make up oxford university. There Is
thus no chance that the oxford spirit"
viii be swamped by the Invasion, but,
ON he contrary, that potent force we
cali atmosphere win have ample
chance to work It's influence on the lads
who como from the seven seas"
And oxford has more"atmosphere" to
the square inch than any place on
earth. Very much that is best In Eng
fish history centers here. Macauley does
not call II 1.-THE noblest Of English cit
les for nothing. You may run over
the list Of English worthless for the past
800 years, and two out Of every three
took In at every pore the spirit OF OK
ford. Here Wycllffc translated the BIZ
Bile into English and soWed the seeds
Of the reformation, Here Cranmer and
Latlmer died In the flames for their
faith Here John Wesley founded
Mcthodism. And here occurred the rlt.
ualistic reaction that carried Newman
and Manning to the church Of Rome.
To philosophy oxford has given Bacon,
Locke and Butler. 70 literature hun.
dred imperlshabe names between
Chaucer and Ruskin. To craftsmanship
Cardinal Wolsey, Chatham, Pitt Glad
stone, Salisbury and {osebery In every
/ field Of human energy where culture
counts oxford has been in the van.
THE FRESHMAN Is KING.
A queer feature Of oxford life as con-
trasted to that In American unlversl-
ties is the treatment Of freshmen. In