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THIRTEEN NOMINATED FOR RHODES HONORS

President Lowell Selects Candidates in Eight States--Massachusetts Leads With Five--Final Choice Will Be by Action of State Committees

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Thirteen members of the University have been nominated by President Lowell for Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford. Whether they will actually win the Scholarships will depend upon the action of the state committees of selection which have the final authority. In each of thirty-two states on December 3 a state committee of selection will pick one Rhodes Scholar for 1922-23 from among the candidates nominated by the heads of various colleges and universities.

Of the men nominated, five will be candidates in Massachusetts, two in Maryland, and one each in Indiana, Illinois, California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

The thirteen men were selected by President Lowell from among twenty-seven applicants on the basis of their record in scholarship and otherwise. Their names and the states in which they will be candidates are as follows:

Massachusetts

Eliot Dole Hutchinson '22, of Lowell.

Jacob Coleman Kelson '22, of Spring-field.

Harry Levy '21, of New Bedford.

William Joseph Maier Jr. '23, of Huntington, W. Va.

David Vernon Widder '20, of Harrisburg, Pa.

Maryland

Gershon Percival Bickford Jr. '22, of Benoyn.

Charles Mather Smith Niver '22, of Baltimore.

California

Fulmer Franklin Mood '21, of Oak-land.

Georgia

Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. '22, of Atlanta.

Illinois

Royall Henderson Snow '20, of Chicago.

Indiana

Daniel Heckert Sanders '22, of South Bend.

New York

Alfred Ezra Mirsky '22, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Pennsylvania

Leon Medoff '22, of Philadelphia.

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