RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 6

RHODES SCHOLARS

COST OF LIVING. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 25th -January. Into the Rhodes Scholarship Trust statement for 1919 v the following important warning is inserted :— Candidates for Rhodes Scholarships should realise that owing to the increase in the cost of living, the scholarship of £300 is no longer sufficient to cover the expenses of a full year, including, terms and vacations. The holder of a scholarship must, therefore, be prepared to supplement it to the extent of about £50 per annum. The trustees have made a, grant of a small war bonus to existing scholars, this is temporary, and does not apply to any Scholar elected as for any year later than 1919. Elections to the scholarships for the years 1918 and 1919, suspended during the war, were held in October, 1919. The Soholars so elected are to come into residence in January, 1920, and October, 1920, respectively. In consequence, the numbers for the coming year will be above the normal maximum. .The number of Scholars actually in residence for either the whole or some part of the academic- year, 1918-1919, was eightyseven, viz., sixty-six colonials and twer.-ty-ohe Americans. Of these, thirty-one' came irvto residence for the firs-t time. There were aJso in residence' nine exScholars, of whom five were colonials and four Americans. Nineteen Scholars went out of residence at the end of the academic year, although they had not in all cases completed the term of their scholarship. Military honours gained by Rhodes Scholars during the year- included four D.S.O.'s. One, W. E. G. Murray (Quebec) gained the M.C., D.F.C., Croix do Guerre, and the Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour. A NEW MOVE. In the United States the elections this year have been held under new conditions. In the first place, there has been no qualifying examination. The competition has been open, limited only by the fact that, in any^Stafe, no one institution could be represented in the competitions by more tha'ii a small number of candidates, proportioned to the total enrolment of students in the institution. In the second place, Selection Committees have been composed of old' Rhodes Scholars, acting under . a chairman not himself a_ Rhodes Scholar. It is hoped by degrees to extend this principle elsewhere, to the extent at least of securing representation of Rhodes Scholars cir all electing committees.