The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-01
RHODES TRUSTEES
ANNOUNCE WINNERS
MOSELEY AND NORWOOD FROM
SOUTH CAROLINA.
First Group 70 Leave in January
Second to Go in Fall of
Next Year.


Boston, Sept. 26.-The results of
the annual ELECTION ..of ....Rhodes
scholars to represent 1.-The United
States at the University of Oxford
were announced today by Prof.
Frank Aydiotte of the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, American
secretary of the Rhodes trustees. The
quota fo. the United States this year
as was the case last year, was "a IN
stead of the normal 50, thus making
up for the postponement of elections
during the war.
The scholars elected as for 1920
will go to Oxford in January, 1921,
and those elected as for 1921 will
20 in October of that year to bring
the appointments back to the regular
schedule. Next year the quota for
the United States will be 50.
The selections were made by COM
nittees chosen from 500 former
Rhodes scholars now living in this
country. About 400 men were can
didates for the "a appointments, the
competition being this year larger
than ever before The increased in
terest in the scholarships in this coun-
try is paralleled by the favorable ar
rangements now in force for their
reception in Oxford. Resolutions re-
Gently passed by the university ad-
nit the men to junior or senior stand
ing with much less difficulty than in
the past, while the new degree of
Ph. D. has been established largely to
meet the needs of American students.
Rhodes scholars are chosen in ac-
cordance with a threefold require
ment in the will of Cecil John Rhodes,
which comprise character, intellectual
ability and physical vigcr. No writ
ten examinations are held, the men
being chosen on the basis Of their
school or college record, supple
mented by personal interview with
the committee of selection.
The following are the men chosen
from South Carolina.
South Carolina, 1920, Edwin F.
Moseley (Wofford college), Laurens,
S. C. -r
South Carolina, 1921, Joseph E..
Norwood university of South Caro-
lina), Columbia, S. C.
Joseph Norwood is graduate Of
the University of South Carolina,
class of 1920, where he made an ex-
ceptional record both as student,
winning first honor and being a men,
Der of the senior honor society, and
as a student leader. Norwood was
prominent in practically every phase
of college activities, the university
publications and literary societies,
however, attracting the greater part
of his attention. During the three
years at the institution he served as
president of the Clariosophic society,
editor in chief of The Carolinian and
represented the university against the
Citadel in the 1919 Clemson-Caro-
lima Citadel debating contest in addl-
ton to taking an active interest IN
the Y. M. C. A. and in athletics.
Edwin F. Moseley is a graduate of
WoTord college and was selected as
alternate by the Rhodes trustees last
year. In addition to his record as a
student, Moseley was ore of the con-
spicuous college athletes of his ur-
dcrgraduate days. He was several
seasons one of the Methodists' main
stays in the backfeld, and was one
of the few athletes to make the my
thical all-star football eleven.
With the selection of Mr.. Norwood
ard Mr.. Moseley, two Of South Caro-
lina's Rhodes scholars are now from
IauYers and two of them graduates
of the University Of South Carolina,
+. P. MCGOWAN, last years selection,
being both a university alumnus and
from Laurens.