Show OPPORTUNITY COMES AND FINDS NO ONE ONEAT AT HOME Utah Collegians Have No NoTime NoTime Time for Rhodes Scholarship Schol- Schol 1 I Tests I APPLICANTS MISSING I Latin Greek and Higher Mathematics Stumbling I Blocks Here The mysteries of the Latin and Greek grammar and the in intricacies intricacies intricacies in- in of higher mathematics combined to cause an apathy among college students in Utah this year believe professors of the University of Utah For the Rhodes scholarship to Oxford has gone begging beg beg- I ging the ging-the the scholarship that carries with I it three years in the worlds world's most noted university with an allowance of 1500 a year It may seem strange that college students In view of the present difficulty difficulty dif dif- dif dif- I of or getting education and large I I allowances at the s same me time would fail to even try for the scholarship But I that is just what happened The Rhodes scholarship committee of Utah headed by Dr A. A R. R Anderson professor of ancient languages was ready reedy this morning for the annual ex examination examination ex- ex of candidates for Rhodes scholarships No cand candidates dates appeared No Utahn will get such a scholarship this tIlls year There will be no further examination till ill next year unless somI some som I student a resident of Utah now outside outside out out- side the state desires to take one The dates set for the examination were today and aDd tomorrow Any stu student student dent between 19 and 25 years of age who has passed the sophomore year in inan inan inan an accredited col college ege or university is eligible The standard s set t is high and from the list of those who pass the examination an election tion is held by the committee In Jan January ary following to to select the honor m man n who shall rep rep- represent represent resent the state This Is indeed an unusual and surprising surprising sur sur- g thing said Dr Anderson head of the Rhodes committee today i Dr Anderson didn't employ the short and ugly word lazy but he strongly intimated that is what is the matter with Utah collegians failed af advantage of the opp opportunity r m ty The only way I can explain it is that students did not care enough ab about ut the scholarship to study Latin and Greek and higher mathematics the prerequisites of the examination he continued There will be no examination examination exam exam- this and i year no appointment unless some of those who qualified in previous years be elect elected d. d We were planning to select a 1917 student from this years year's list |