RHODES SCHOLARSHIP ELECTIONS DUE IN 1928

The next election of Rhodes Scholars will be held this year on December 8, it has been announced by Frank Aydelotte '10, American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees and President of Swarthmore College. Massachusetts will be one of the 32 slated to held elections this year. The applications of candidates should be filed with the Secretary of a State Committee of Selection before October 20. The candidate may apply either in the state in which he resides or in the one in which he has received at least two years of his college education. It is essential that he be one of the men chosen to represent his institution in the competition. Harvard applicants, irrespective of their native states, should apply to President Lowell in writing before October 1 for selection as Harvard candidates.

A Rhodes Scholarship, the most coveted of all undergraduate awards, entitles the holder to three years of study at Oxford University, with an annual stipend of *400. To be eligible a candidate must be an unmarried male citizen of the United States, between the ages of 19 and 25, and must have completed at least his Sophomore year in college before he goes to Oxford. Rhodes Scholars are elected without examination on the basis of their records in school and college, and no restriction is placed upon their choice of studies. Scholars elected on December 8, 1928, will go to Oxford in October, 1929.

The qualities which will be considered in making the selection are literary and scholastic ability and attainments, qualities of manhood, truth, courage, and moral force of character, and physical vigor as shown in outdoor sports or other ways. Exceptional athletic prowess is not essential to election.

These scholarships were created by the will of Cecil Rhodes, the famous South African statesman and capitalist, who died in 1902. Their purpose is expressed in the terms of his will: "I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicitly believe will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth."