Arizona republican., 1913-06-22
THE BENEFACT TIONS
 OF CECIL RHODES
Some Facts Regarding the Oxford
 Scholarshi ips.


 geniuses of the past century He exploited the enormous mineral re- sources of south Africa, gave his name to q province Rhodesia- and stamped himself deeply on the future of the Dark Continent
 Rhodes was an Englshman a graduate If Oxford, and dreamed not only Of a unified and mighty British empire but also of unItN ot senu- ment and feeling in the whole Eng fish rlce-in Britain, Canada, Aus tralia. America and elsewhere. He | left to the politicians the solution ot l the former, but himself went about l in ingenious wax to secure tb" l latter His plan Nas to bring l3l' l young man Iom aII oyer the Eng i Iish-speal1ing world to oNford his alma mater, throw them together for N i three years in college study and ns- l sociation and return them to their M homes informed and broadenod in th" \. nobler feelings and traditions of lhr English race the world over.
 And so Rhodes provided in his Nlll for a series If scholarships alt oxruId
 each to be held Tor three wears, and to be worth $500 q year. Io an l American student accustomed tn make his way throueh college at cost uf S40U to 5000 AcaT fhe Rhodes stipend looks large. but it i- the testimony of scholarship men , that it is mt more than is neccs- eorv to live comfortably at oxford . and lo the extras and travel cNpeot- x , e3 of every incumbent.
 one scholarship is provided for eaoA
 state ot the American union and tN-
 amIuation4 are held two ze.0rs oat of three for selection of appointeo- Th" . next cxamInati3u win re h.It iH october 1913, and not again until 1915 For Arizona the eNaminltInn
 will b. held at the University 'tt Afl- v zoua in Tuc4on in October Tho eN f amiuations are reasonably difficult : and cover especially F.ueu5h, n#th,- 2 Iauatics and Latin, Greek Wa4 at first I d preliminary requirement. but raN n now be postponed until after the aI'- lpointment IS made. yet this oEamln4-
 tiou must be taken before tl. -H3l- = iarShip is occupied the year aItoF ilr 9 aDl,ointfncut I4 made one Hh" mas 7. taken freshman English in college ' fought to pass the English eXamtta-
 tfon without difficulty, aleehra and
 geometry cover the mathematics re- ~. quirenent: four ztars If Latin M - prrparatorv school WogId usually be
 adequate But the man is not ap- F pointed until h. hts tin.-hed tAe - sophomgre year of au -AlAtrta.tn t"l- lt2t. Rhodes N.Llllt ~ ''i t+|4 ld tulity in the men who received thg
 scholarships
 InfortunateIv ln the United states. ed especially in the states warre there zy Iar.. several colleges, the -g gHaiar~iaLH .= thas been passed around from eo.Iese be to college that all might have ta"
 benefits of if in tuu regardless 'a be the ability ot the competitors. t. ,1I result has been a lower grade at men B I7 than from others The Rhodes es trustees state that where there ls '. but one college or uulEersltl n Y of atatt-as in Arizona--the app"intrea .ra have. been almost uniformly good ioi ,a there is no temptation |" make 'P- TX pointments in rotation Arizona h.'@ / had such men at oxford as ~,
 SpaIdings of Phoenix and IoHd@r-
 milk of WiucoN-all Of them q credit
 u themselves and to the state.
 IS Letters received from LoWdcrmIif 'ed during the past year gives some llt Ire dication of the side-interests VI ai tic American Rhodes scholar at oNIord oZ He writes:
 DDS ..Drc 26. 1912. The Rhodes scholar
 ship is nothing to be complained !" ITS 50 far have been having A Nor CT enfovabIe vacation; in London Il week
 N,itb a fellow college mate a Eeel . when 1 was dinnered, motorcd etc.
 and here al week Gin Dundee, Scot
 IandD with other friends ~ho hay ~ been showing me that Scotland aH especially Dundee is q good place f be in"
 April y. 19I& spent the si
 $l\yeeks' Easter vactton in German
 where I went to learn the Germa
 { language. The acquaintance with "
 German people was worth muct
 They have my admiration They ar
 industrious, extremely polite, and rh
 jo1. life. But one can see that th
 Germans never wrestcd Ma&n
 Charta from the ruling class nor eNe
 had an Oliver Cromwell. I was ]
 Gottingen for q month in boardin
 house where the family took us
 and made us talk German. The
 { charged us twenty pfennigs (anol
 five cents) for every English Wor
 We spoke Militarism enters lhl
 every day life q fad
 Arizona boys have not sensed Il
 $privfleges of the Rhodes 'scholarship
 { At the last examination in 1912 thel
 was but one candidate; more are e3 } pected next fall So few have bet
 }Itho candidates from this state th } there is q constant tendency i' young men from outside the state ) come to the University or Arlzoi 3 long enough to acquire residence
 ] the state and then apply for the I
 ] animation, the purpose of the cor inc, being solely to secure the sch(
 arshfps The president If the IT
 versity and the other members , tho committee on appointment di courage such men from coming n the university and apply the rul
 as rigidly as possible against theI
 hut if there is no genuine Arizo
 man up for the scholarship there n nothing in the rules of the syst'
 to prevent an outsider capturing
 nn,nint,nent if he establishes ! Iel