A GIRLS' RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 871, 18 July 1910, Page 3

A GIRLS' RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.

Miss Juliet Stuart Points, of Barnard College, 'New York, from which sue graduated--in -1907J says, "The Queen" has recently wo nthe-English scholarship offered by-the Federation of American Women's' Clubs, whioh - corresponds in essentials to the Rhodes scholarship for men. • ■ Miss Points, is the first girl student to win this honour, than which-there is none -higher in the women's- colleges of the United States. She expects to sail for England in June, and iopes to do some--important, research work in ■the great cities oft.,this,,.side 'p.f.,. the water. She -has already . spent some time investigating sociological and economic conditions 'in large American centres.- .-•■■■ This scholarship-is--for £300, ..to -beheld at-Oxford, Cambridge, or London University for the year beginning October, 1910. • The ■ scholar had to be chosen from among the graduates of American colleges of good standing, and each scholar was required to take last October the same qualifying, examinations as were provided by t'ho Rhodes Trust for men competing for the Cecil Rhodes scholarship. livery candidate (each State was entitled to send one) was called upon to file duplicate copies of credentials of good health, mental and moral, qualities, literary and scholastic attainments, and to show promise of distinction in order that only the pick of all the women's colleges in the United States should represent the country in England's University , life. All papers were read and marked by the official examiners at Oxford and returned to the national chairman of tho Federation of Women's Clubs. The final selection was made by the special committee of selection,, and the fortunate winner was chosen for her "all-roundness," not for scholarship only. ' ; ' The credit, for this scheme by which American women students are selected and given the opportunity to pursue their "studies in the Old World belongs to Mme.' Thaycr, an American resident of London, to whom tho idea occurred of doing something for women on the lines of tho Rhodes scholarships.