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Show MOST RHODES SCHOLARS ARE EX-BOYSCOUTS More than half of the Rhodes j scholars for 1926 are former Boy Scouts. Questionnaires sent by the National Scout Office to the thirty-two thirty-two scholars selected for the current cur-rent year show that of the twenty-eight twenty-eight men replying, eighteen have had Scout training. Most of these boys served in Scout ranks three years, nccording to the report. Five of them were in the movement longer long-er than that. The majority were ! second-class Scouts. There was one Eagle. Nearly half held positions of leadership in their troop. Every one of these former Scouts held positions of honor and trust through out his school 'and college life. Class presidents,1 club and fraternity officers, captains of athletic teams, and editors of college papers are found among them. The thing in Scouting thnt influenced influ-enced them most, they said, was the camping and outdoor program. The Scout oath and law gave them high ideals of character, they added. The Eagle Scout mentioned the merit badge system ns having been a vital thing in his life. Fifty per cent of these boys managed to excel ex-cel in their studies while earning half or more of their expenses. All hut two earned at least some money. mon-ey. 'When they were in high school, six of the boys earned one-fourth or more of their expenses and more than half worked enough to make "spending money'' at least. Most of those who answered the questionnaire acknowledged tbe effect ef-fect of religious instruction in snap- |