RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 24

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS.

The Rhodes trusteed are promoting a Bill in Parliament enlarging the powers conferred upon ■ them under the will of Mr Cecil Owing to changes of circumstance in methods of education which have occurred since the testator’s death there is a risk of the main purpose of the -will being frustrated unless the powers of the trustees to determine the administration, tenure, and distribution of the scholarships, as they may from time to time consider, necessary, are enlarged. The principal purpose of the Bill will be to enable them to carry through a reorganisation of the method of choosing Rhodes scholars in . the United States so that four scholars will be chosen annually from eight districts of six States each, instead of one scholar being chosen every two years- out of three , from 48 States. The Bill will not alter the allocution of scholarships to the different States, provinces, or schools in Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Rhodesia, or Newfoundland. The Bill will empower the trustees to determine the tenure of the scholarships in any way they may think necessary in order to give effect to the testator’s purposes, and will authorise them to Create a capital reserve fund ■behind the scholarship system.