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Show Rhodes Scholarships to be Resumed Soon at Utah State Ag. College three scholars at Oxford simultaneously. simul-taneously. They were, Fred Som-ers, Som-ers, of Garland, now member of the Cornell University faculty; George Peranian, Rice institute faculty member, and William E. McEwan, of Kemmerer, Wyo., now in the armed forces. Dr. Sherwin Maeser, head of the chemistry department, who acted as representative of the Rhodes trustees prior to the war, has been appointed to continue as USAC representative. Resumption of the Rhodes schol. arship competition at USAC is planned as soon as possible after the end of the war, college officials of-ficials have announced. Frank Aydelotte, American secretary se-cretary for the Rhodes scholarship trust has informed President E. G. Peterson, of USAC, that the scholarship competition will be renewed. He pointed out that as no appointments ap-pointments have been made since the outbreak of the war in 1939, "the first years after the war the competition will have unusual interest. in-terest. Rhodes trustees have plans under consideration for extra scholarships for which men will be eligible who might have compel com-pel ed in 1939 or any year thereafter there-after until the end of the war." These extra scholarships will be over and above the regular appointments ap-pointments for which men are eligible year by year between the ages of 19 and 25, he explained. In the years immediately preceding pre-ceding the war, USAC graduates were unusually successful in the |
