SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOLARS.
BETTER AT PLAY THAN AT WORK. ..'. i By Telegraph.— Association.— 'London, June 7. Dr. Parkin, secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, has toured South Africa to inquire why South African Rhodes scholars excelled in sports and failed in work, whereas Australian, • New . Zealand, and Canadian scholars secured scholarships . and prizes. Dr. Parkin reports that it is desirable that South Africans should spend a year or two in their own universities before going to Oxford.. . , .' ~■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14391, 9 June 1910, Page 5
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