Show RHODES SCHOLAR I SELECTION WILLBE WILL WILLBE BE MADE SOON Preliminary Choice is to be Made This Week University Uni Uni- University E Entitled titled to Name Five Candidates This is tho the year for tor Utah to select selecta a stud student nt to hold one of the tho ta famous Rhodes scholarships The preliminary ary selection takes takes place place this week so all students of ot the University who are arc interested in trying out tor for this honor should lc m make inake k fr Immediate application PP 1 o atthe at it at the tho presidents president's office where detailed information will be given Th Tho University Uni University Uni- Uni Is entitled to five tive candidates s which will be passed upon and one ono final choice made b bye the tho state committee committee committee com com- of at selection of which President George Thomas is tho the chairman This is one of the greatest honors that can can be bo conferred upon an AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican college student entitling the tho holder to a n. three years year's ear course at the famous University of ot Oxford Enl- Enl land with a yearly early allowance of or or about 1600 I Tho The Rhodes scholarship system stem was founded by tho the will of ot Cecil Rhodes noted English statesman who died i in I 1902 Rhodes was educated d for the alto ministry in England but his health I broke down and he ho was sent to South Africa where his elder brother was engaged In n farming That year diamonds diamonds dia dia- I monds were discovered at Kimberley Cecil and his brother Joined the diamond diamond dia dla- mond diggers and were successful That was the beginning of the tho I j menso Rhodes fortune At the age of nineteen he returned to England I with his health regained and also financially Ind Independent pendent After returning re- re ra 1 turning he att attended Oxford University and then lx began an a a. lonG of service service ser ser- ser ser-I vice to the British government which had for tor its principal object the settlement settlement settlement settle settle- i ment and development of or Africa by byl bt the English people he having been before greatly Impressed with the vast potentialities of that continent Upon the tho death of lof Rhodes his entire entire en en- I tire Ure fortune was turned over for public public public pub pub- lic service the greater reater part for tor the founding of the now famous Rhodes scholarships Under this plan stu stu- dents depte are selected from ever every important import Import- ant British colony Germany and from each state and territory of the tho United States making a n. yearly total of scholars Each state Is Iii allowed two students in residence at Oxford which means that two are selected t i y every three years The Tho purpose of the tho Rhodes plan Is to strengthen t though gh education the British Empire and In the words of Rhodes as con con- tamed In his will to o and and- i foster an appreciation of the an ad l which I believe bellevo will result from the tho union of the English 1 i speaking people throughout the thel j 1 1 world I |