RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 13

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

POWERS OF TRUSTEES reorganisation sought The Rhodes trustees announce that they are promoting a Bill in the House of Commons enlarging the powers conferred upon them under the will of Cecil Rhodes. The reason for the Bill is that, owing to changes of circumstances and in methods of education, which have oc.urred since the testator's death, there is a risk of the main purpose of the Bill being frustrated unless the powers of the trustees to determine the administration. tenure and distribution of tl\e scholarships, as they may from time to time consider necessary, are enlarged. The principal purpose of the Bill is to enable them to carry through a reorgarisation of the method of choosing Rhodes scholars in the United States, so that four scholars will be < hosen annually from eight districts of six States each, instead of one scholar t>eing chosen every two years out of three from 48 States. The Bill does not alter the allocation t>f scholarships to the different States, provinces, or schools in Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Rhodesia or Newfoundland. The Bill stives the trustees power 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 it authorises them to create a capital reserve fund behind the scholarship system.