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SELECTING! RHODES SCHOLARS. IFer Pres.? Association) Auckland, May *JO. Dr. Handall. 'travelling secretary of the Hhoths Scholarship Trustees, arrived Irom Sydney by the Maiignanui to-day. He said in an interview: 'I In- question that concerns us are whether the scholarship is of adequate value, whether committees are arranged in* the best way. whether tlm system secures us the best, men as Rhodes scholars. New Zealand's record in particular had been an honourable one. Dominion scholars contributed much, net merely in athletics, to lile of Oxford. It will not he easy to fulfil the founder's aims unless literary subjects and history play a larger part, to education than at present. I want to get educationists out of tlit*ij- mathematical and scientific groove, and f stale boldly education is not worthy of the name if it coniines itself to mathematics and science.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 574, 28 May 1925, Page 6
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