RHODES SCHOLAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 6

RHODES SCHOLAR

CANTERBURY'S NOMINEE SELECTED

MR. H. S. RICHARDS, B.A,

The nominee of Canterbury College, Henry Stoke Richards, has been selected as _ the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar of this year. : The meeting of the .Selection Committee took place on Saturday morning, His Excellency trie Governor presiding. , There were present also: The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice Denniston, and the following- representatives of. the Professorial Boards:—Professor Malcolm .(Otago), Professor Gabbatt (Canterbury), Professor Adam6on (Wellington), and Professor Maxwell Walker (Auckland).

The nominated'candidates were: Mr. H. S. Richards (Canterbury). Mr. j; P. Hewat (Otago), Mr. F. T. Clere (Wellington), and Mr. F., A. Airey (Auckland); ' ' •

' The successful candidate is just over twenty years of age, and' received his early education at the Rangiora (District School and Rangiora High School, entering the latter liy means of a scholarship. He passed the matriculation examination with' credit 'on the Junior University Scholarship papers-at the age of 15, and the following -year gained third place in the Junior University Scholarship Examination. ■ At the High School he took a. great interest in athletics, qualified for a commission in the cadets, and gained : second place in the rifle shooting competition. At Canterbury College Mr. Richards took his B.A. degree in 1913 at the age of 19. He also obtained the Senior Scholarship in pure mathematics. In the examination for the scholarship in applied mathematics, the examiner remarked that Mr. Richards's aggregate marks were indistinguishable from those of the successful candidate. :

In other branches of University life the candidate has also been very-active, and'has filled numerous executive positions. He has taken a keen,interest, in athletics, I .and has represented his' collego in the middle and longdistance 'events at the-University tournament. As a rifle shot he has also been a member of the team from the college in tho last two years' competitions for the Haslam Shield. He has-also been a member of the Canterbury College senio* Rugby: team. On the,outbreak of wajlisa volunteered for Service with tho Expeditionary Force, and was accepted, but owing to the appeal to Headquarters of his parents and friends, was debarred from leaving. In the college Dialectic and Debating Society he haa : heeri an active member. The record of Mr. Airoy, of Auckland,shows him to be a distinguished student, but he is two years older than Mr. Richards. In commenting on tho nominees, Sir Robert Stout said that they .were ja paa-tioularly. bright lot this year. . -." (By Itolesrr&iih.—Presa Aesoota-ttoo.) Chrlstchurch, December 14. Mr. Richards is the first Canterbury 'College student to gain a Rhodes Scholarship. He has had a brief but brilliant scholastic career, and in tho words of one of bis instructors, Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, he is just the type' of Rhodes Scholar.' ' ■ -■