To Dr. Parkin was entrusted the making of the necessary arrangements with Oxford, and the construction of a system for selecting and appointing Scholars. Negotiations with the University and with the Colleges found all the Colleges willing to accept Rhodes Scholars, although their requirements varied somewhat. The Trustees found it advisable to require that only men who showed ability to pass Responsions[17] should be eligible. Entrance to an Oxford College is not as simple a matter as entering most Colleges or Universities in the United States, Germany, the British Colonies or even other Universities in the United Kingdom. The handling of an endless variety of questions which would naturally arise in this connexion, negotiations between the appointed Scholars and Oxford, and the adjustment of individual difficulties at Oxford became, as they continue to be, the charge of Mr. Wylie. Dr. Parkin was then able to set out on what became a one-hundred-thousand-mile trip to the ‘ends of the earth’, to approach the authorities in the centres from which Rhodes Scholars were to be drawn. It was his mission to deal with ever-varying local conditions, and establish in each centre an appointive system which would at once satisfy the requirements of the Will, the requirements of the University, and the circumstances of the local educational (and sometimes political) régimes. Only through the elasticity of the Will, which gave discretionary powers to the Trustees, and through which they, in turn, allowed Dr. Parkin to deal with local conditions, was the success of these negotiations made possible. Of this unique trip of organization Dr. Parkin says:— ‘Practically it has brought me in touch with almost every educational man of weight in the United States and in all our Colonies. In New York I met the heads of fifteen of the greatest American Universities, and in Washington the Presidents of the State Universities throughout the Union assembled in conference. At Boston the Colleges and Schools of New England were represented. At Chicago nearly sixty heads of Colleges from the six neighbouring States, representing altogether between twenty and twenty-five millions of people, had been drawn together by President Harper. At Atlanta the nine Southern States were represented, the delegates coming 600 miles southward from Virginia and 500 miles northward from Louisiana. At Kansas City, Spokane, San Francisco, and Denver, the representatives of the Far West and the Pacific Coast were collected. In the Maritime Provinces of Canada, at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, and Vancouver, independent conferences were held, as also in each of the Australian States, in New Zealand, Bermuda, Jamaica and Newfoundland. In South Africa the consultation was chiefly with individual schools or the heads of educational departments.’[18]