RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS.
WORK OF THE PAST YEAR. PROPOSED NEW BUILDING. Renter. LONDON, Dec. 3C. The report of. Iho Rhodes Scholarship Trust for the academic year, 1924-25, states that during the year 63 Rhodes scholars took up scholarships at the University of Oxford for the first time. There were 185 scholars in residence, comprising 96 from the British Empire and 89 from the United States, as well as 16 exEcholars. In the course of the year 57 scholars completed their term of scholarship, or went finally out of residence without completing it, and three scholars suspended residence temporarily. The academic year 1925-26 will start with 184 scholars in residence. Two more are coming in January. There will also be 15 ex-scholars. Three ex-scholars died this year. The trustees have purchased a site from Wadham College, on which they will fcrect a building to be known as "Rhodes House.** It will contain a hal! for the annual dinners of the Trust, a library of English books, and a residence for the Oxford soci:ett..ry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 9
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