University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-24
RHODES PRIZES
FOR GIRLS, TOO
Women's Clubs to Send Co.
Eds to Europe to
Study.
A MOVEMENT is STARTED
Would Arrange Funds for
Scholarships at Oxford
and Cambridge.
A MOVEMENT is STARTED

A movement by which it is hoped
some day to send to England as many
feminine Rhodes scholars as there are
men has been put on foot by the Cen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, &C
cording to announcement made by Mrs.
Francis D. Everett of Highland Park,
president of the Illinois State Fedora
ton. Starting with fund of $1,000,
the women's clubs will send abroad
next year one young woman, unmar
ried and not more than p years old.
She will be expected to carry off all
the scholastic honors in sight and dem
onstrate the Importance of having Am
erican scholarship in England repre-
scented by women as we'll as men.
Meanwhile the federation will carry on
a campaign to secure additions to the
scholarship fund so that, eventually, at
least one scholar from each state may
be sent to Oxford, Cambridge or Lon
don, which are the three universities to
which the young women will be sent.
One Student From United States.
As there will be but one scholar Sc
lected from the entire United States
this year the competition is expected to
be kten. The method of procedure will
be for any young woman ambitious to
receive tn scholarship to submit ere
dentials in regard to her literary and
scholastic attachments, her mental and
moral qualities and her promise of dis
tinction to the proper state federation
officer. In Illinois these officers are
Mrs Everett or Mrs. F. W. King, Green
wood Inn, Evanston. Of these candi
dates the most promising will be Sc
lected and permit will be obtained
for taking the Rhodes scholarship ex
animation with the men on October 10,
1909 From that time on the selection
will take the same course as that laid
down by the great English empire
builder for men. All other things being
equal, preference will be shown cam
didates from these states which have
contributed to the scholarship fund. IL
linOis is one of the heaviest contribu-
tors
Scramble for Scholarship.
From the interest already aroused by
the announcement the federation off
GERS are beginning to fear that the task
of selecting the candidate will be diff
ficult.
L have received surprising number
of inquiries already and the announce
ment scarcely has been made public
said Mrs. Everett today. 1--WE are dis
couraging most of the applicants. In
the first place candidate must be a
graduate of college of high standing.
Then we do not expect to recommend
any one for the examination whom we
do not think capable of winning the
scholarship. The young woman who
does win will be pretty carefully Sc
lected person and we will expect her
to make a record for herself in Eng
land. The women in this country have
done a good deal in the line of out
shining men in scholarship, and we are
pretty sure that if the men who have
gone over on Rhodes scholarships have
not done all that was expected in their
studies the women will
Plans for the scholarship originated
with the education committee of the
General Federation of which Miss
Laura Drake Gill. formerly dean of
women of Bernard College. New York
is chairman.-Chicago Evening Post.