IMPERIAL HOME SCHEME.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1909, Page 10

IMPERIAL HOME SCHEME.

SOMETHING PRACTICAL IN SCHOLARSHIPS. INTERCHANGE OF SCHOLARS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, 11th June. If he had an opportunity of doing so, the Earl of Crewe would have brought before the Press Conference a modest little organisation which is already doing something in a, quiet way for the fostering of the Imperial spirit, which is the aim and object of all decent people in the Empire to-day. The Imperial Home Scheme, of which the Arch-Imperialist, the Earl of Meath, is patron, was -founded in 1903 by Miss A. Stratford Cox with the idea of strengthening the Imperial tie through the boys and girls' s>chools of England. To encourage parents in the oversea States to send their children to England and to English schools on the Continent, a number of these institutions have' agreed to offer scholarships, equivalent, generally, to 50 per cent, of the school tees for British-born boys and girls oversea. There will be no distinction of creed, and no competitive examination, the only qualification being good health and good conduct. "When schools all over Great Britain adopt this scheme, colonial parents may select those in their native towns, where possibly relations or friends could make the necessary enquiries for them. In iuch cases they would be sending their children back to strengthen the ties of relationship and the bonds of friendship. Indeed, the social side of the scheme is no less important than the eduoaMoniil. An it is hoped that all schools in Great Britain, as> v well as every University College, will eventually co-operate m the scheme, the committee i-annot hold itself responsible to parents or principals, and the usual references must be exchanged to ensure suitable schools and candidates."