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Show RHODES TRUSTEES ANNOUNCE CHANGE LONDON. July fi. With the object of giving Oxford university a new contingent con-tingent of American students every vear, the Rhodes trustees today announced an-nounced a ehanpe in the method of electing; elect-ing; scholars. Instead of as hitherto choosing from the forty-eiglit states in two consecutive years and skipping: the third year, the scholars will be chosen yearly in future from two-thirds of the states. The sixteen states to be omitted at the 1916 examinations are Arizona. rela-ware, rela-ware, Florida. Idaho, Louisiana, Montana. Nevada, New Mexico, North Oarolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Caro-lina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia Vir-ginia and Wyoming. From those states scholars will be selected in 1917, when another sixteen states will be omitted. |