Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03

to present themselves before election
to the committee in the state or ter
ritory they may select. No candi-
date may compete in more than state
or territory either in the same year
or in succeeding years.
Scholars will be selected from
candidates who shall have passed a
qualifying examination, which will
be held in each state or territory to
which scholarship are assigned, at
centres to be fixed by the local COM
mittee of Selection. Papers will be
set in this examination in Latin,
Greek and mathematics: and only
those candidates who may have pass
ed in at least Latin and mathematics
will be eligible for a scholarship.
Subject to this condition. a candi-
date to be eligible must: ID Be
born a citizen of the United States
of October of the year for which he
IS elected have passed his 10Th and
not have passed his 25th birthday.
CD BY the 1st of October of the
year for which he is elected have
completed at least his Sophomore
year at some recognized degree
granting university or college of the
United States of America Can ex-
ception to this rule is made in the
case of the state of Massachusetts,
where, at the request of the commit
tee of selection. authority is given
TO APPOINT from the secondary schools
Any person who may have passed the
qualifying examination once will be
eligible to a Rhodes scholarship at
any subsequent time without further
examination, provided that he satisfy
the other conditions of eligibility.
The qualifying examination will be
held in the month of October of the
year preceding that for which an
election is to be made. The local
committee will in each case appoint
suitable persons to supervise the ex-
animation, and will arrange for it's
impartial conduct. 1t should be clear
~ understood that the examination
IS not competitive, but qualifying,
and is merely intended to give as
surance that every elected scholar is
up to the standard Of the first exam
ination Tesponsions) which the uni
verStly demands of all candidates for
the b. A. degree.
The examination papers will be set
by a board of examiners in Oxford
The papers will be forwarded in seal
ed parcels to the chairman of the
committee of selection Within these
parcels vii be enclosed sealed en-
velopes containing the examination
papers. These envelopes shall only
be opened by the supervising exam
lner at the time and place of the ex-
pyin
be supplied. AS the papers contain
the tuii text Of all classical passages
used in examination. no text books
VIII be required by candidates. Ar
rangements will be made to supply |
stationery to candidates at the place
of examination
Every candidate for a Scholarship |
is required to furnish TO the chair |
man OF the committee of selection
ca certificate of age; OBJ a full |
statement of his educational career
at school and college: his record in |
athletics, and such testimonials from
his masters at school and his profess
ors at college, in reference t. the |
qualities indicated by Mr.. Rhodes, as |
VIII assist the judgment of the COM |
nlttee of selection. Each candidate
should personally present himself to |
the committee of selection before a
final decision is made unless specially |
excused by the committee itself; in |
which case statement of the reason |
should be sent to the trustees.
The selection should be completed |
not later than January the 1st of the
year for which the scholars are
elected. Scholars elect will begin |
residence at oxford in the following |
October.
The scholarship vii be paid in |
quarterly nstalmcnts: the rst on be-
ginning residence at oxford and l
thereafter terminally. provided that |
the college to which any scholar may |
belong be satisfied With his work and |
conduct. Marriage vacateS Il scholar |
ship.
Commissioner Sargent of the State |
Highway department is sending out |
the following letter to the chairmen of |
municipal officers of the various towns
of the state, calling their attention to |
a provision of the state road law rel |
ativc to the cost of roads not con