GRADUATES AS RHOOES SCHOLARS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1906, Page 4

GRADUATES AS RHOOES SCHOLARS.

A vn-ite'r in' the Stir* seems to hold tie view expfes«a : in" ; ft» "columns of the Auckland :;!f Star-' : Sat 'the Rhodes scholarshq>3 ; -sh6tld: Se plied to Boys leaving aekpoi andSnotie graduates of colonial"3niversifies. , -Hβ writes: —'' When the • foi this State were .being ; -ms ■widely discussed ehouid be university ipen ,' or\ $nA» from the public (i.e^l 1 "^ 1 class seaw dary) schools, and evenfij|ally. flie"trn* ..tees ill Britain gaye t .jireference to'Ja former, believing that'this ..rcpiesentti the main-trend oi' Ficifmaaiiwifihsi Nowadays, however, if.rienrra&tjexjKS' sion of opinion ainongs iw* and educationalists is rtoybe the trend of opinion is; =tcwank"tin Selection of ybungef men-thatithose *vho have already teen Wish of Mr- Kiodes: of mutual .and : A might be 'promoted parts of the Empire— Germany added:' ■ Tictortoa tionalists now,say. that. tJif.j. l c . a $ twentyrthree or. ; twenty-fonr jea^ ; sS4 from -Australia , cannot come.into a» restrained intercourse with t1» j;oui|p men of the English University >$rtm men. of course; regret-that should be at an age in-fluence of the ancient less likely to affect them deeply, m it is generally urg^d-that -tfie #" graduates whom * Australi«J--i5 ; are debarred by ; feasohof. their §«** age frohi" giving or ' receiving I ** p * fluence as 3lr. Cecil Rhodes'toped wobH flotV from one other under his schemed- r ;* I '?- 8 ~5 it is pointed out. diaiiog^ ]*f*f.** scholkrships to by which eolonially-trained reach the lu'gh aba^emie-pnz^-«™ ioTd>' " - ' " ■■-''• l % $M#r, . , -"':'' "'""•? rr>«i'