Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-19
DEsERET EVENING NEWS WEDNESDAY May I9 1909


means the establishment OF oneself in
4 q Very CONT ortab BILE suite Of two rooms
II 9 "betltl der nd d sitter, The col
II eye furnishes all the furniture re-
4 nired buts.th undergraduates man
ges and adurns his apartments at3his
own expense and according 10 his
undergraduates coy den. Here he
ssntertains his friends to sbreier'
caRfast or lunch, or tea. Every
sitter'l has an open fire place. The
nneerfnl crate fire is half of oxford
lie. III MS sitter. the undergraduate!
4 Toes his work. talks politics. religion,
and sport. and gathers around him a
iorai'y and a. circle of friends. 1t Is in
! this circle OF friends and books that
4 oxford life is at its best. IL MAS prob.
4 ably this life before the open fire that
4 appealed SO strongly to Rhodes, and
made him realize that to combine in
I, stncse$ circles the highest type of Eng
isla, Colonial and American manhood,
would do more 10 bring the race to-{
gether han treaties and diplomacy.
lnder the oxford system there are
no recitations or class periods, Eacl,
term the university announces a
1 schedule of lectures in the different
schools feoirses3 ana one attends
whatever lecture seems worth Mhllc.
| or tue. lecture that one'.; tutor recon-
mends. Every undergraduate is as
signed to the direction and supefiil-H
! tenGcnce Of a tutor. The tutor effects
this direction by private instruction
man largely upon his own initiative,
sDonst'Ss (profcssors) do not force men
| TO work. Intact many Of them 10 no:
| even ti,sc men to- work. Oxford
| Knows neither conlpnlsion nor presume
She offers q complete curricuianl-7
f,t,St l.,y rt1 fs1G
medicine, philosophical and all the rest.
She offers the best talent in each
branch. Her teaching corps comprises
most of the minds Who are producing
the books and moulding the thought
OF this generation. The undergraduate
Is altogether free to take advantage
of oxford either in whole or IN part
or to ignore her. III cyeyS case oxford
remains unconcerned. 1t is no enigma
therefore that one half OF oxford is 4
asking what is truth and the other
half is asking what is trumps. Be
tween the two extremes are all grad
atoms of truth and trumps.
FINAL ORGANISATIONS.
When the undergraduate thinks that
has mastered the work of his course.
he applies to the university for an eX-
animation goes in for his schools
This application must be accompanied
by a substantial fee none of which is
refunded in case Of failure Thorn 90
two standards of eXamination--the pass
standard and the honor stahua.a.
Rhodes men are expected to aspire to-
the honor standard, and thus far they A
have largely made good. The honor
standard is a. severe test and a. first
class is equivalent to am American
3"magnum cum laudo.' oxford does
not confer degrees lly the bcstpwal Of
"a piece of parchment. Oxford merely
registers the graduate OH the books OF
the UNIVERSITY.
q The Rhodes man who works during
term has his vacation quite free Tor
purposes of travel and experience. One
of the greatest features of the scholar-
ship is this opportunity for travel No
training is more valuable and thorough |
than that acquired invisiting localities
that religion, or history, or art or TO |!
nance have written large in pages of |
the worlds book. When vacation comes,
1T takes less than asNSeell for Rhodes
men to scatter out over Europe. Men
go to France, to Germany, to Spain, tf,
Russia, to Italy, to Greece, to the holS |
land They study the languages and I
habits Of the people They discover
their preiudices. and learn their asplfa-
tons One wants no larger education
than this first hand contact with the /
world. 1t teaches why it is good to be
an American. It4makes more inteili-
gent citizenship
Vacation usually holds something in
store for Rhodes men in addition to
the travel IN a great measure they
are abroad as the Representatives of
the american nation and of each n
dividual state Persons of prominence
therefore Invite them to various func-
tons One need scarcel, ever go tic
London without being invited out some
where. Last vacation, Ambassador
and Mrs Whitelaw Reid entertained at
lunch in honor of the Rhodes men. at
House in Park Lane Tie
affair was not formal and uncordial as
most entertainments in high circles are
to be. Even the lunch was
good and substantial, although couched
in French phrases. gTf.
3 AS may well be imagined, but as fe "
appreciate without passing through The
8, Rhodes scholarship PC
ca sions constant adjustment of point
Of view Residence in college. travel,
contact with people of positi on--all this
ruthlessly disturhs littlelless OF mind
and soul. The process of9readjustment
Is not always plea SAINT, but 1T is always
healthy 1t demands that one view
himself and his country in The nerspec-
tive. that he abandon what's mere
in both. The American
laughs at the eccentricities of the Eng
lishlnan and the E1lglishman laughs at
those Of the American. and 1t does them
both good The laugh makes each less
eccentric In this laugl, Rhodes dream
is realized.
HOW IT is OBTAINED.
After all the most Important ilfor-
nation to Utah students is to know ex-
actly how this great opportunity Is
awarded. In the first place candidates
must pass the Qualifying examination
sent out by Oxford. This examination
has been conducted heretofore in utsh
at tiie state university. In the past.
papars have been set in elementary
Latin and Creek lie
cause tho Greek requirement detcrre1
many from competing. the Oxford dele
gacy decided this year to make the
Greek paper optional. The omission
or the Greek is not in the least u af-
feet the equal chances OF all candidates
before tho committee OF selection. That
committee, which in Utah consists CT
DR.. j.. T. Kingsbutry. Dean Cumming
and Principal George A. Eaton of the
Salt Lake high scl.oo. selects according
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