RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 11

RHODES SCHOLARS

THE YEAR'S REPORT

/Rom "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 31st October. Tie namber of Ehodcs scholars regularly in Tosidonee for either the whole of the academic year, 1929-30, or some part of it, totalled 187, of whom 101 belonged to the British Empire and S6 to the U.S.A. Sixty-eight scholars took up thoir scholarships for the first time. For one term, or longer, there •tverc also in residence 21 ex-scholars. The degrees, honours, and distinctions list included some New Zealand 3iames, among them being: D.Phil.—M. Barak, 1926 (Hereford College), in Physics. B.C.L.—A. L. Haslam, 1927 (Oriel), second class. Final Honour Schools: First Class, Jurisprudence.—J. F. F. Platts-Mills, 1928 (Balliol). Do., Second Class: C. A. Sharp, 1928 (St. John's). The following w<re among those who proceeded to degrees for which they liad qualified:— D.Phil.—A. L. Haslam and M. Barak (in absence). In. athletics, W. B. Henley (1929), .represented Oxford against Cambridge, in Bugby football. For the year 1930, Mi-. F. A. Taylor, 31-A., student and tutor, of Christ (Church, was appointed to a Ehodcs {Travelling Fellowship. Mr. Taylor is a. New Zealander who has had a brilliant career at Oxford, and who included j^e,Bominicyi in, his tour. He has re«i^Si^roifinrned?to'i'b2E£oi'cl from EasrptU ■P^ -™ "■: ■— " :-—-■-• —•- — ;-. .*;#%?]