Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-27
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.
Returning students Have Varying
Opinions---St.5OO Dollars Il Not
Enough 10 Spend nj Oxford.

Most of the first batch of the Rhodes
scholars who went from the United States
TO oxford three years ago have returned
TO this country and arc engaged in
teaching or in research work
There is great diversity in their views
concerning the real value of an oxford
training, some of them maintaining that
the ;mc spent at the English institu-
ton Is practically wasted. and others
asserting the contrary, says the Boston
Globe.
Upon the point. however. there is
substantial agreement among all the
returned oxford scholars. namely. that
$500 year is not a cent too much for
necessary expenses at the English uni
versty. Some even think that 5000 a
year would be a mere appropriate sum
Expenses vary at the different col
lcses in the university, the poorer col
leEes, with small cndowmcnts, having
/ to depend moro upon tuition fees than
the richer colleges. The university
gives the Rhodes scholar the right to
name list of colleges, in order of
preference, with which he wishes to
be enrolled, and the university officers
consult tho desires of the student as
far IS possible in the matter
II scholar gets into one Of the most
| expensive c"'cscS ms sl'"o goes during
me year 'eaFihs MN ht'ie or nothlnS
for vacation travel The cost of living
in a university like oxford is much
greater than in an American univc--
sity. The class of men entering the
large universities in England is differ
cnt from the class of college men in
'he hhtcu states 1h'Y are generally
men of greater income and are not
ophsed to pay such close attention to
One rctuih'u hnou"s Schoiar Is quoted
as saving Il s"c'i found ihdt the Nari-
Gus HVlhg expenses when couid not
borrow money MY parents were not
"'"''"S "u' '"'S ASSISTED me as niu1h
as posS'n!'' i"und tpat 81" was
nearer Wn't H''ue" 'iah Sl"' ana !
""uot !! '"'r' are many men III Ail'ri-
can co'i'soS VINO Spcnd that sum Tor a
years educa'lon IN the expensive dor
'''i''i i.' an" NV '"E 80! nv
Il at not throw my money away
an" u'u ho' o'SSip"'c' As lar AS t"e
money question IS concerned nave
/
me- nave these debts to pay on ana
my eduea'!oh points 10 II" particular
way IN which to rid myself OF them.
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IN question got hot"'i's OUT Oh oN'oru
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encc' MOS Oh 'hc o'her NhodeS Scho'-
arS OF MS year manager 10 I'VE "l'iiH
thclr schoiarship incomes
a 'hr" returned h""ocS Sci"'d'' VINO
taxes tHc cohScrN "'Nc atu'uuc Oh ''c
question: says:
fllteeh huAdr'd d''afs Is aSSureoiS
NIUE enough lo' year STUDY At OA-
| lord' ana 'Aat sum is ny no means sur
| hcIent II IN" student Is SolhS 10 90 any
| vacation 'raNehnS' Mess ne tTaNeIs
! on the continent during Na'"''o'', anu
| unless ne works consciehu"hSly uurlhs
| term time' ne might perhaps rs wen
take postgraduate work AT an American
university as go 10 OXFORD facihues
for studying the ciass'cs at No'c'i'o'a'
Yale or HarVarn are 'uii! 'auai 10
those at OSford' II ov iacih'ies you
mean libraries In some other respects
| however OXFORD mas the a"'"h'aSe'
| For instance, on account Oh 'ne
smaller size Of the o-tord coheses As
| compared with an American university
the student has more opportunity for
personal instruction ana guidance
There were about 2f students and %
| teachers in the college at when /
studied ratio which wot Id scarcely
| be found in any American college
| "Then, the English young men enter
ing oxford from the best preparatory
schools arr farther advanced and more
mature than the average American col
lcse graduate. so that the work, cs-
pcciary in classics at oxford, is more
advanced than the average American
postgraduate work.
''Of course a; oxford, as everywhere
else in the world, the advantages which
a student derives depend mainly upon
himself. I do not think that the major
ity of the American Rhodes scholars
take examinations for degrees at OK
o.