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
The Trustees desire to have assurances of full preparation up to the
Oxford standard of Responsions of all Scholars elected by the four
College Schools to which Scholarships are assigned in Cape Colony.
To this end permission has been given to these Schools to allow their
elected Scholars, before taking up the Scholarship at Oxford, to pursue
their studies, for a limited time after leaving school, at the higher
institutions of the Colony.
In view of existing educational conditions, leave is occasionally given
at present by the Trustees for candidates for the Scholarships assigned
to Rhodesia who are being educated in other parts of Africa or in England
to compete, provided that their parents reside in or are intimately
connected with the Colony. In these instances the candidate is allowed
to take Responsions or its equivalent either in England or in the Colony
where he is receiving his education. Application for leave to compete
under these conditions must be made to the Trustees directly or through
the Director of Education for Rhodesia. Other things being equal,
preference will be given to candidates educated in Rhodesia.
The United States of America.
An elected scholar shall have reached, before going into residence, at
the least the end of his sophomore or second-year work at some recognized
degree-granting University or College of the United States. An exception
to this rule is made in the case of the State of Massachusetts, where, at
the request of the Committee of Selection, authority is given to appoint
from the Secondary Schools.
Candidates may elect whether they will apply for the Scholarship of the
State or Territory in which they have acquired any large part of their
educational qualification, or for that of the State or Territory in which
they have their ordinary private domicile, home or residence. They may
pass the qualifying examination at any centre, but they must be prepared
to present themselves before election to the Committee of Selection in
the State or Territory they select.
No candidate may compete in more than one State or Territory either in
the same year or in successive years.
Selection.[40]
In accordance with the wish of Mr. Rhodes, the Trustees desire that[41]
‘in the selection of a student to a Scholarship regard shall be had to
(i) his literary and scholastic attainments; (ii) his fondness for and
success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the
like; (iii) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty,
sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and
fellowship; and (iv) his exhibition, during school days, of moral force
of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his
schoolmates’. Mr. Rhodes suggested that (ii) and (iii) should be decided
in any School or College by votes of fellow students, and (iv) by the
Head of the School or College.
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