RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 3

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN.

The 'other.,day: a -New Zealand 'girl undergraduate was heard ;• lamenting' that Tthcro had;! been 'no Mrs.; Cecil Rhodes.- ; :It .' would ■ Bavo - been such 'a ' ,fine .''arrangement, slip' thought,;if :. .thero' had 'Rhodes: scholarships . for-- the : 'women \ as well as Rhodes scuolatships .for the men.' American.lady':haa.set to work to' remedy .the omission' caused;. ; by i the,, ■non-cxistehce-,'of Mrs. Cccil. ' Mnie. Thayer,. president ,of tho'. American cir'cle' bf; tho' Lyceum: Gliib, is tho'. authoress: of, an .international and : intercolonial ; scholarship-.scheme: for women; ..and :is making'it • her, life-work.' •.'Some time ago she: .'placed;#:■ before UKo.iediioatiMi ; committee- of; the Society;.of Ame'riedr/, Women, in London, of which she was thenveliairman;.' The,s'chemo,j 'a postgraduate studyibfjtwo years at Oxford, Cambridge,: or ■ London '' University .by, distinguished, students, of. their. own' universities ;'at home, !..was;:recejvcd'f,by: the; committee, with, enthusiasm, t-ho : ' 'reciprocity .side" (trf tho. project,' which.' is : 'to send '...English' woraeft ; for'; a; two gears';, postgraduate : study ..to .America or Canada,': to, the John . Hopkins.. tfiiivirsity /at Baltimore, for instance; or jto: thV M'Gill University in. Ca-nada."-.'The scheiiievis. intended to' embrace later.-the coloriie3' ;i cxactly as Cecil Rlfodes's does,', bifti'it is-America's'-privilege to, make the stirt; v: and already a successful beginning ; ha'tb Efeeh*- made. ; ; . The Society, of American Wriiiien- in London',has .'pledged, • self, to ,a ; two' ;yeaSy.' inconio. ; for 'one, scholar 'from the- : district pf'.Columbia ; :while .Jime. Thayer : h'ers"blf. has ''undertaken 'to-raise ;cfne. Bcholarshfip" l in pef-petuity'.fbr her ''own' Stat.e. ofLouisiana:V rThe! ; -' education" committee'; of the General Eederatibn'"of'"..Women's ; Chibs in America : has: promised; to ";ondow ono 'scholarship' arid- has-;, ircoomi' mended its general, body, to _.take up these .scholarships as;-one; lino; of ..its.;'work. The General' .'number's; 800,000 members. ■ Ther'(j(are'.46 States in America ;,Mmo.'. Thayer', hopes.; that, "each -.Stato Federation will'endow, one scholarship,' and a second sho! hopes-to ' succeed in; getting .through': the' mii- 1 uaceric6''-.of.Americans ;at Homeland abroad, in large 'or,;small.".donations,. thus providing /or 92 Amefican ; scholarships in' all.; . A 'sum-, fif £7000. endows a,fscholarsh'ip 'in perpetuity •and means an.allowdrico,.of.,'£2pO i 'a; year for a post-graduate. cou.rse. , for;tv/o: years:: As Mine. Thayeris Handicapped through want of means, her progress' is l All the; more astonishing. The. authoress' of this great;'educational- scheme : is, backed; by a unique , experience . in. teachingnearly- all.: over the, worlds..., She-is descended ;irom : a 'distinguishd:'stockof.New';England, people, ■ a lineal ."descendant '-of.' Roger •Yi'il..liaras,- the RFlode .Island, and :a; .ionnectipnpf-jLongfeilow's.p/ -,V