WOMEN AS RHODES’ SCHOLARS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5245, 11 April 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)

WOMEN AS RHODES’ SCHOLARS.

INTER X ATIONAL SCHEME. AMERICAN WOMAN'S PLAN. An international and iulcrcalaniul scholarship scheme for ivijmcn, on lines similar lo 11 ut I u In, li |he la le (V? II Ithndus, In his will, laid down for the benefit of young men, was drawn up somu time ago by an American woman, and already (according to the " Gentlewoman”) H Inis every prospect of perMnift. Thayer, president of the American circle of (lie Lyceum Club, Is the uul lioness of Ihe scheme, and Is making It her life-work. Home time ogo she placed It before the education committee of the Hoc.ii*ty of American Women In bond on, of which she wus then eliulirnuii The scheme, a post-graduate study of t w 11 years ut Oxford, Cambridge, or London University by distinguished students of their own universities at homo, was iceelved by the commit tee with enthusiasm, which applauded particularly the "rooiprocliy side" to the project, which is to scud English women for a two-years' post-graduate study to America or Canada, to the Johns Hopkins University at Ualtimore, for Instance, or to the M'Otll University in Canada. The. scheme is intended lo emiuuec later oil the colonics exactly us ('cell Rhodes's scheme does, hut it Is America's privilege to make the slurl, and alioady a successful beginning has been made. The Soddy of American Women in London (suys ijur eon temporary) tots pledged Usclf In a two years' Income tor one scholar from the district of Columbia; while Mme. Thayer bus herself uu-ih-iiaki-n to raise one scholarship in perpetuity lor her own Slate of Iwmlsluitu. The Education Commit lee of the (P n--«'ul Federation ~f Women's Clubs 10 America has promised to endow one snholursiiip in ixtrpt-luity, and has rcctimnn nded Its general body lo take up lliese scholarsliips as one line of its w-<»|k The general fcdeiatlou nuiiiUers MOO,DIM) women members. There are forty-six Slates in America; Mine. Thayer hopes dial cadi State Federal ion will endow mu- scholarship, and a second she hopes lo Hiie.cecd In getting through I lie miiiiilh'cncf of Americana al home and abroad, io large or small donations, thus providing for «ilne(y>twu American scholarships In all. A sum of I*7ollo endows a seholaivlilp in perpetuity. and means an ulluvvance nf L'JfiO a year for a |M»si-gruduute course of .two years. As Mine. Thayer is handi<npped through want of nieaiiH her pn»gress Is all (lie more astonishing. The authoress of Itiis great educational scheme Is bucked by a unique experience in teaching nearly all over the world, sin- is descended from a distinguished stock of New England people, a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, lln- founder of Rhode rsland, and a connecllon ..1 Longfellow 'a. "Daily chronicle."