Rhodes Scholarship Requirements Outlined as Concluding Day for Applications Approaches--Annual Stipend About $2000

Students in Harvard University who are planning to apply for Rhodes Scholarships for September, 1932, should notice that Wednesday, October 7, is the last day for receiving applications for letters of recommendation from President Lowell, Assistant Professor C. C. Brinton '19, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Committee, announced yesterday.

The scholarships bring a stipend of 400 pounds each year, for two or three years study, one of which may be spent outside Oxford. A candidate may represent Harvard either from Massachusetts, or from the state in which he legally resides. Further information may be found in the "Rhodes Scholarship Memorandum for 1931", to be had from F. W. Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Corporation, in University Hall, or from Professor Brinton at Dunster House, J-24.

In addition the following will hold themselves in readiness to give information about Oxford and the scholarships: Eliot House, Assistant Professor F. O. Matthiessen; Adams House, J. A. Ross; Dunster House, Assistant Professor C. C. Brinton '19; Lowell House, Mason Hammond '25; Winthrop House, D. B. Durand '25; Kirkland House, Assistant Professor E. A. Whitney '17; Leverett House, Associate Professor W. C. Greene '11.

All candidates, Professor Brinton states, should read "Oxford of Today", which is on reserve in the reading room of Widener Library. The Oxford University calendar or catalogue, and the Statutes, are reserved under reference in the desk in the delivery room.

Harvard men who get the degree with distinction, it is pointed out, would almost certainly be allowed to study for a higher degree. The Ph.D. degree could be earned with three years of good work, one of which could be spent at a continental university, with the stipend of 400 pounds continued. The trustees will attempt to keep the value of the scholarships at approximately $2000, regardless of the revalorizing of the pound sterling.

Graduate work in Oxford is not as highly organized as at Harvard, Professor Brinton states, but good personal guidance is available, the libraries are excellent, and an Oxford degree is not without prestige in America.

Committees of selection nowadays tend to put scholarly achievements first, but it is emphasized in the memorandum that there are no formal, cut-and-dried standards. The committees want above all men who show promise of attaining distinction, of doing some one thing well.

"The 'all-around-man' of college novels is perhaps a bit distrusted," "Professor Brinton states. "What are known as 'activities' may help, but are not essential. The requirement of 'physical vigor' does not necessarily include playing on a team."

The methods of selection for the scholarships is as follows. Thirty-two are assigned annually to the United States. For the election in 1931 the states of the Union are grouped into eight districts of six states each. There is a competition in every state. In each state the Committee of Selection will nominate from the candidates applying to it the two best men to appear before the District Committee. Each district committee will then select from the 12 candidates so nominated not more than four men who will represent their states as Rhodes scholars at Oxford.

A candidate must be a citizen of the United States, with at least five years' domicile, and unmarried. By the first of October for the year for which he is elected he must have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-fifth birthday.

Candidates may apply for the state in which they have their ordinary private domicile, home, or residence, or for any state in which they may have received at least two years of their college education before applying