Oxford and the Rhodes ScholarshipsScholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
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Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
Rhodes scholarships
=Victoria.= Candidates must have been resident for at least seven years
in the Commonwealth of Australia or its dependencies, in New Zealand or
in Fiji, and for the three years immediately preceding the election must
have been resident in Victoria.
=Tasmania.= Candidates must have passed the first and second annual
examinations for any Bachelor’s Degree in the University of Tasmania.
Candidates must have been resident in Tasmania for five years prior to
being awarded Scholarships.[37]
Bermuda.
A candidate must be a natural-born British subject who was born in
Bermuda, or one of whose parents has been domiciled and resident in
Bermuda, for at least five years immediately preceding January 1st in the
year of selection, or in the event of his parents being dead, one of them
must have been domiciled and resident in Bermuda for at least five years
immediately prior to his or her death.
A candidate must have been educated in Bermuda for at least five years
between the ages of twelve and twenty years.
A candidate who has attended a Colonial University affiliated to Oxford
is exempted from Responsions.
Canada.
An elected Scholar must have reached at least the end of his sophomore
or second year’s work at some recognized degree-granting University or
College of Canada.
Candidates may elect whether they will apply for the Scholarship of the
Province in which they have acquired any considerable part of their
educational qualification, or for that of the Province in which they have
their ordinary private domicile, home or residence. They must be prepared
to present themselves for examination or election in the Province they
select. No candidate may compete in more than one Province, either in the
same or successive years.
The following Canadian Universities have applied for and been admitted to
the privileges of the Colonial Universities’ Statute, so that candidates
coming from these Universities who have fulfilled the conditions
are accepted as candidates for Rhodes Scholarships without further
examination:—
McGill University Montreal.
Laval University Quebec.
Toronto University Toronto.
Queen’s University Kingston.
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia.
King’s College University Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Acadia University Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Mount Alison University Sackville, New Brunswick.
Manitoba University Winnipeg, Manitoba.[38]
Jamaica.
Candidates must have passed their eighteenth birthday, the upper limit
(25) remaining the same.
The parents or recognized guardians of candidates must be actually
domiciled in Jamaica, such domicile to include at least seven years of
residence in Jamaica immediately preceding the election. In cases where,
during the seven years’ period, the parent or guardian has taken short
holiday trips off the island, such absence shall not be counted.
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