Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships

Name: Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
Author: Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)

Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)

Rhodes scholarships

Although disclaiming all or any official authorization, and wishing to
involve no one in the responsibility for the appearance or the character
of these chapters, we feel that it would be misleading and ungrateful
not to acknowledge our indebtedness to those without whose assistance
much of the information could not have been obtained, or could only
have been obtained with great difficulty. We have occasion to thank,
for very material assistance and for many valuable suggestions, Dr. G.
R. Parkin, Mr. F. J. Wylie, and Mr. H. T. Gerrans. Dr. Parkin and Mr.
Wylie, as officially connected with the Rhodes Trust, have given us
access to Memoranda, and have given information on many points connected
with the Scholarship System. Mr. Gerrans, Fellow of Worcester College,
has explained and furnished information on many difficult points in the
Oxford system, and has otherwise considerably simplified the problem of
arrangement and publication. Our thanks are due also to Mr. L. Cecil Jane
of University College for very helpful suggestions. For whatever errors
or shortcomings may be discovered we alone are responsible.

Readers should also bear in mind that the ‘System’ of the Rhodes
Scholarships is still to some extent in its trial stages, and that
changes in its methods and machinery may still be expected.

Our sole incentive for the production of such a book _at this time_ lies
in a desire to meet what has seemed a present need for a collection of
information upon the Scholarships as they exist. We would only justify
this attempt in so far as it may accomplish this end.

                                                                  R. F. S.
                                                                  S. K. H.

OXFORD, _February, 1907_.




CONTENTS


                                 PART I

  CHAP.                                                               PAGE

     I. SOURCE, ORIGIN, AND PURPOSE                                      1

    II. THE SIXTH AND LAST WILL OF CECIL JOHN RHODES                     8

   III. FROM PROVISION TO PRACTICE, 1902-1906: THE MEASURES AND STEPS
          BY WHICH THE SCHOLARSHIP SYSTEM HAS BEEN ORGANIZED            21

    IV. THE APPOINTMENT: ELIGIBILITY—REQUIREMENTS—QUALIFICATIONS—
          EXAMINATION—METHODS OF SELECTION—METHODS OF PROCEDURE
          AND INSTRUCTION                                               31

                                 PART II

     V. OXFORD AS IT IS—OR AS IT HAS SEEMED TO A RHODES SCHOLAR         44

    VI. THE OXFORD SYSTEM: UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE GOVERNMENT, METHODS
          OF INSTRUCTION, COURSES OF STUDY, AND DEGREES                 61

   VII. EXPENSES                                                        95

  VIII. OPPORTUNITIES: THE VALUE OF A RHODES SCHOLARSHIP—
         QUALIFICATIONS—CHOICE OF A COLLEGE—CHOICE OF WORK—ADVANTAGES  106

                               APPENDICES

     I. LIST OF RHODES SCHOLARS                                        118

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