THE RHODES SCHOLAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1601, 19 November 1912, Page 8

THE RHODES SCHOLAR.

r".; -" .;" NEW;ZEALAND, AWARD. i .; ■': MB,! 1 -. P.-MILES, OP OTAGO, •,' .-.The Neir" Zealand Ehpdea. Scholar .for ' ;.J913 was | chosen.;'by the- Committee'of • Selection at a'meeting, held at Govern- ;•' ■ "iment House. 1 yesterday; :;His .Excellency ',:■'■' the Governor;presidc'd. Other members of. ■ ,•■;• ..the committee:present . were:—Sir Robert ;-•,:-. .Stout (Chief Justice, as Chancellor of the - ■ University)," Mr. Justice Cooper 1 (as next (..■■• senior Judge), Professor Egerton (reprer . sehting Auckland University College), ; . iPrqfessor J. li. Brown .'(representing Vic--toria College)/ Professor Blunt (represent-: } \sng .Canterburj:.Collcse)i,...and! Professor (representing Otago University). f.; ' -The successful -.candidate is Frederick '•■ IKsher Miles,- , of.\Qfogb\Universit.y. The ; ' Other candidates were :T-Erank Alwyn.Tay- ;,■-'. 3or, 8.A., of: 'Auckland,, and y ■-. .Ehadwell Jennings, M.Sc, 8.A., of Can- | Jterbur y College. There was no honiiriation ffrom: Victoria College this'year.' - if Mr. Miles was 20 years of age on August i \B, and is a-son-of Mr. Jas. Miles, manager ;•'. ■of the Brulc'of Australasia, Invercargill. Bo was educated at Southland Boys' High |. "'School, arid in.,1908. gained a junior uni- !'■-■ xeraty scholarship.' At the University he completed the-, degree,of; B.A. in 1911. . In'. 1912 his record;was;; Advanced Matbenia- ■ jtics, first cross, Ist equal; honours French,: • tand honours JSrigiish. first class, first in ithe class; senior English. first' class, first. : : in the class;' James: Clark prize. On the .ißOcial side he is vice-president of- the. :" iStudents' Association, ■ president .of the. ( JArts Faculty, editor 'of ...the: Otago Uni- : ' : :,versity "fteview," and was .the representa-' itive of the Arts Faculty,'in..the Inte'r::iFaculty debate, ■ 1912.',"1 - athletics, he re- ,-'-. -presented his school /at-, cricket, football, :- iand shooting," and .Tvte fives champion 'in '. J9OB. At the University, he.played, cricket 'for Otago against'.Canterbury, College in' '■' .1910, in 1911. was picked for'the Southland !: Representative;.trials, and in 1911-12 was a - - imember of, the InveTcargill senior eleven. ; /(He has,also .been.in the Otago. University I .-. representative" .teams for football,.'tennis, ]' -and -hockey, and' was >' member! of, the. i officers' training -corps in ;1910. -, : He', has r .becn'in residence'. since