SUCCESS OF RHODES SYSTEM

There is encouragement for American scholarship in the recently published annual report of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. American Rhodes scholars at Oxford last year took five first honors in jurisprudence, and captured nine university prizes, among which were the Matthew Arnold prize for an English essay and the Oldham prize for a classical essay. In the classics in general their showing was less good than in other subjects. Outside the field of scholarship, they have done well in athletics, and--strangely enough--an American has been chosen for the first time to the presidency of the Union, which is regarded as the highest undergraduate office. Out of the 431 American Rhodes Scholars who have finished their studies, only eleven have remained in England, and most of those temporarily. Of the scholars who have returned, the greatest number, 144, will pursue the profession of teaching. But the rest are well distributed through the other learned pursuits. Last year the 175 American Rhodes Scholars constituted one-fourteenth of the whole study body at Oxford.