NEW PLAN FOR RHODES ELECTIONS

The trustees of the Rhodes Scholarships have decided to make a change in the method of selecting the holders of the scholarships in the United States. Previously scholars have been elected from all the states of the Union for two years, more being chosen in the third year. So many complications have arisen in the past, however, that a new plan of selection was determined upon.

In future scholars will be elected every year in place of for two years followed by a year without elections. For this purpose the states have been divided into three groups (A, B, and C) of sixteen states such. Elections will then be held from two of these groups each year, thus giving each state two elections in three years. The qualifying examinations are held every year in each state, and must be passed before a candidate is eligible for a scholarship. A candidate may take the qualifying examination in any year, and, if successful, go up for election in any subsequent year if he is still eligible.

The states are divided into groups as follows:

Group A--Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee.

Group B--California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi.

Group C--Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.

Elections of scholars will take place in groups A and B in 1916; in groups A and C in 1917; and in groups B and C in 1918.