RHODES SCHOLARS

Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 33

RHODES SCHOLARS

ME, GILRAY’S VIEWS. (From Odb Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 22. Mr C. M. Gilray, the well-known Rhodes scholar, who returned yesterday from England, when questioned by a reporter as to the results of the Rhodes Scholarship sciieme, said that he had little to add to what had already been said on the subject. The scheme certainly worked well and fulfilled the objects for which the late Mr Cecil Rhodea conceived it. A young man going Horne from the colonies learned to look at things from a different standpoint. Tho English view of affaire was not always the same as that of the colonial, and ;t was a good thing for young men to be brought to realise this. Tho same thing applied to Americans. Many of tho scholars from the States had been greatly surprised at what they saw in the Mother Country which they eventually liked very much. Many of them went back to their, own country satisfied that in many respects Americans were perhaps 1 just a> little too up-to-date." Do the Rhodes scholars return to their own countries after the completion of their term? A very fair portion of them do so, replied Mr Gilray. 11 As a matter of fact I myeelf am one of the last to return. I have been away so long that my people were beginning to despair of my ever coming back.” The scholars who returned, he added, would he found to be in most cases useful men and of better service to their country than if they had not had the opportunity of a sojourn in the Old Country. There might not be so many Cabinet Ministers amongst them, as some people at one time rather foolishly seemed to exoect, but they were nevertheless eminently useful men.