RHODES SCHOLARS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 8

RHODES SCHOLARS

AUSTRALIAN SELECTIONS Noel S. Bayliss, of Queen’s College University, Melbourne, has been chosen as the Rhodes scholar for Victoria for 1927. He is not yet 20 vears of age, ’and attended the Coburg High School from 1917 to 1920. He continued his education at the Melbourne High School, where he was dux of the school, and the winner of a Government senior scholarship. He also won there the Rix prize, awarded on the same basis as the Rhodes scholarship. In his three years at Melbourne University he has taken a science course, gaining exhibitions in chemistry, . natural philosophy, and pure mathematics in his first year, and chemistry and natural philosophy in his second year. If successful in his examinations in December next he. will gain the Bachelor of Science degree. He is a member of the Queen’s College eight-oared crew, and is also a tennis player. At Oxford he will continue the study of chemistry. Mr V J Flvnn has been selected as the New South Wales Rhodes scholar for 1927. He is in his 23rd vear, and was educated at St. Aloysius College, North Sydney, and at Sydney University, where he studied law.