IN A GROOVE
SELECTING RHODES SCHOLARS,
(BI TELEGRAM.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Doctor Randall, travelling secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trustees, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui to-day. He said in an interview : "The questions that concerned us are whether the scholarship is of adequate value, whether committees are arranged in the best way, whether the system secures us. the best men as Rhodes scholars. New Zealand's record in particular had been an honourable one. Dominion scholars contributed much, not merely in athletics, to the life of Oxford. It will not be easy to fulfil the founder's aim ■unless literary subjects and history play a larger part to education than at present. I want to get educationists out of their mathematical and scientific groove, and I state boldly, education is not worthy of the name if it confines itself to mathematics and science."
After his New Zealand tour Dr. Randall will spend a month in the Pacific, and then go to Canada and the "United States.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 8
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166IN A GROOVE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 8
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