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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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 residence. Thus a candidate may be a competitor in two states or territories at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE RULES FOR AWARD OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

According to the will of Cecil Rhodes, a scholarship of $300 annually for three years is given to one candidate from each state and territory who shall be selected by a qualifying examination. Now, however, the Trustees have made a change in the requirements, and appointments shall be made by a committee in each state and territory without any qualifying examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE RULES FOR AWARD OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

...candidate much have had Greek, Latin, and mathematics in order to be eligible for the scholarship. "Subject to these conditions, a candidate to be eligible must: (1) Be a citizen of the United States with at least five years' domicile, and be unmarried; (2) By the first of October of the year for which he is elected have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-first birthday; (3) By the first of October of the year for which he is elected, have completed at least his Sophomore year at some recognized degree-granting university or college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE RULES FOR AWARD OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

...accordance with the wish of Mr. Rhodes, the Trustees desire that "in the election of a student to a scholarship, regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during the schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggests that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE RULES FOR AWARD OF RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

...institution of a university are for but one purpose--the mental and physical development of the students. But although they can help, the main test lies with the student himself." He then went on to say that statistics compiled by the faculty have shown that the attainment of scholarship in the Graduate Schools corresponds directly with that obtained by men while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP AND SPORTS DINNER SPEECH SUBJECTS | 6/2/1919 | See Source »

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