The Rhodes Trustees have decided that every Rhodes Scholar shall reside in College for at least the first two years at Oxford, except in cases where the College is unable to offer him rooms. At the end of two years of residence in College, Rhodes Scholars who have either taken an Oxford degree, or who are of ‘mature age’ as defined by University regulations, i. e. twenty-five years or over, may, with the permission of the College authorities and the consent of the Rhodes Trust, live in _unlicensed_ lodgings during their third year. All others who cannot satisfy one of these two conditions are required to live in _licensed_ lodgings, which are under the direct supervision of University authorities. [Sidenote: Degrees.] [Sidenote: Possible to Rhodes Scholars.] The University of Oxford grants degrees in Arts, Music, Medicine (Surgery), Law, and Divinity, to which must be added the recently instituted ‘research’ degrees in Letters and Science. Special advanced courses, extending over a year or two, are offered in Education, Geography, Public Health, Economics, Anthropology, Mining and Engineering, and Forestry, for which a certificate or diploma, but no _degree_, is granted. We are concerned here only with those degrees which are possible to the Rhodes Scholars. As has already been stated, all candidates for an Oxford Bachelor’s degree (except the degree in Music) must satisfy certain requirements of residence and scholarship. The degrees which will be open to the Rhodes Scholar who remains in Oxford _only_ for the three years of his Scholarship are:— 1. _The ordinary Bachelor of Arts_ degree,—which, except on certain conditions, requires twelve University Terms of residence, i. e. three academic years; and 2. The more advanced, or ‘post-graduate’, _degrees_ of _Bachelor in Letters_, _Science_, or _Civil Law_,—which can only be taken, upon satisfying certain preliminary qualifications, after a residence of at least eight University Terms, i. e. at the end of the second year. [Sidenote: ‘Standing.’] To proceed to the higher degrees, there are no further requirements of residence, but only of _standing_. This consists in keeping the name on the books of the College whether resident or not, and paying the quarterly dues to the University. In practice it amounts to paying a nominal sum annually to the College, which pays the University dues for the candidate for higher degrees. This is technically known as keeping Terms of standing. _Master of Arts._ This degree can be taken only by an Oxford B.A. upon entering on his twenty-seventh Term from matriculation, i. e. after six and a half years. There are no further requirements of scholarship.[52]