RHODES TRUST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 17

RHODES TRUST

THE ANNUAL STATEMENT • : :' DOMINION" SUCCESSES / ; (From ''The post's" Representative.) . /LONDON, 27th Novcmb'er. : In their, annual" statement for the academic? year 1927-28, the Rhodes Trust report that during tho year 65 Bhodes scholars took up their - scholar-ships-fori tho 'first time. Tho uumber of scholars regularly in residence for either', the. whole;or 'some part of tho academic, year 1927-28 was, 187—jiamely, 9-1 from, tho British Empire, and 93 from/the tTriited States of America. There were, also-in residence for one or more-terms 15 ex-scholars. ■ Tho present scholars were distributed among-the-various subjects as follows: Literae : Hurnaniores "/.(including' philosophy or!kindred, subjects pursued, with a- view: ;.td.\ advanced,, ..degrees), 11; mathematics,,!; .natural- science and medicine, 43;' law, 55; modern history, 17; philosophy; politics, and economics, 15; theology, 2; modern languages, 5; English : 21; economics (diploma, ,'JJ.Litt:,/. or .B.Phil.), 7; '.forestry or./agriculture;.. 3;:-miscellaneous,. 1; In -the-'eourse'-of. the year (37 scholars .either-completed: the term of tho scholarship'or went finally out' of- residence withoiit.complcting it: Tho academic y'ciii-'i92)B ; 1929 starts with 17G Rhodes,.scholars in residence.' Threo 192S scholars/will "be. coining into resi-~ dcnccJn: January,-1929. Three Rhodes scholars, ..who should! be jii residence, are' temporarilyl absent on grounds of )]ealth'- : 6rifor other reasons. ; Tliere will be 19 ex-scholars in residence. .Thero iverc-fivc deaths reported during; the'year, including that, of'il'r. J. A. Thomson,, .'the :: \Ncw Zealand, 1.904 scholar. Mr.-.. Thomson.:was-in.residence

*Mt:Str-John's College fro'm'l9o4. to 1903. Ho obtained'■' i\ ...First, Class in Geology, and tlicßurdeit-Coutts Scholarship, lie was Lecturer at.St. John^s College for ono year, 1907-1908. For two years after leaving Oxfordvhe was in Australia. From. 1911 to 1914 he was Palaeontologist to'the"Geological Survey in New Zealand.' • -From 1914 onwards he was Director of the. Dominion Museum ill. Wellington.;. , He had been fighting tuberculosis for many, year's, .but had continued his work' in spite of illness.' Shortly; before, his death he published a work.' on .Brachibpod Morphology and Genera. ..■He. died: iii' Mayy 1928. ■ The Examination List mentions ■the following' successes :of New Zealand scholars:"R.-"S;':Aitken (1924, Balliol), D.Phil.'iti Medicine; C. E. Low (1920, Magdalen), Second,: Class ■ Honours in | Modern Languages; and ,T. A. Dunning (1925, New College),\Third Class Honours in Mathematics..;..' C. B. Low has won a Heath . Harrison Travelling Scholarship for German. A. E. Porritt obtained- the degree of 8.M., and K. 11. Bailey the degree of M.A. W. G. Kalaugher (1927) represented Oxford against Cambridge in athletic sports, and also in relay races. He also represented New "Zealand in athletic sports at the Olympic Games. During ,tho year notice was received of the publication of new books by 35 Rhodes scholars. During the year 1929 appointments will be made to the 1930 scholarships. Scholars so elected will come into residence in October, 1930The Rhodes Memorial Lecturer for the academic year 1927-28 was Dr. Abraham -Flexner, of the Rockefeller General Education Board. He resided for the summer term, as an associate mom-' ber of All Souls' College, and delivered three public lectures on "Tho Idea of: a,, Modern University." Two appoint-: ments were made to Rhodes Travelling: Fellowships—L. G. Wickham Legg, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of New College, andCharlotto R. D. Young, M.A., Fellow.and.Tutor of Somerville. College.,