RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 10

RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

WELLINGTON NOMINEES P.A. WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. The Victoria University College nominees for the 1948 Rhodes Scholarships are Brian S. Smith, aged 23, and E. O. Hall, aged 21, both old boys of Wellington College. Mr Smith is a son of Mr E. J. Smith, formerly chief postmaster at Dunedin. At Victoria College. Mr Smith nas taken an active i part in college club activities, is a senior scholar in education, a James Macintosh scholar, and has won the Haben’s Memorial Prize. He is a Victoria College and New Zealand University “blue,” has represented the Victoria University College in boxing and Association football and earlier played. for Wellington Teachers’ Training College in those sports as well as baseball. Mr Hall entered Victoria University College in 1944 and studied for his B.Sc., graduating in May of this year. He won the Bruce Dali Prize for physics, the Macmorran Prize for mathematics, the Alexander Crawford Scholarship and the Sir Robert Stout Scholarship. He represented Victoria University College at golf at the university winter tournament in 1945 and has played in the college cricket and association football teams.