GERMAN’S GENEROSITY.
THANKOFFERING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. 1 LONDON, Oct. 19. An anonymous Hamburg merchant, as a thankoffering for the German Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford, has founded a number of annual scholarships each valued at 3000 reichsmarks to enable students from tho universities of Britain and the Empire to have a year’s study in Germany. They are called Hanseatic scholarships and will bo awarded without examination by recommendation following an interview.
The founder hopes they will further closer relations and understanding between Germany and Britain and promote a consciousness of European solidarity. The. same donor has founded three annual prizes valued at 10,000 reichsmarks in Britain, Holland and Scandinavia for distinguished work in literature and the arts. It is understood the first British recipient of the Shakespeare prize, as it has been named, will be the composer, Dr. Vaughan Williams.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 20 October 1937, Page 9
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