RHODES SCHOLARS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 5

RHODES SCHOLARS

ADVANCED SUCCESSES SEVERAL N.Z. MEN LONDON, Doc. 1. Sixty-eight Rhodes scholars took up their scholarships at Oxford University for the first time during _ the academic year of 1998-9!). This figure is given in a statement on t lie year’s work issued by the Rhodes Trust, wnich also states that the numbers of scholars regularly in attendance for either the whole or some part. «>f the ucade nic vear was 188, 94 coming fiom the British Empire, 90 from the United States and four from Germany. It >s stated that two New Zealanders qualified for the 8.L.H.. namely, E. P. I-laslatn (Auckland), of Ballioi College, whose subject was social studies, and L. F. Moller (Dunedin) of Rraseno.se. whose subject was inw. Two New Zealanders took first-class final honour school— Literap Fumamo-es, D. M. Davin (Otago). Ballioi; and J. D. Lewis (Auckland) Christ Church. The list of distinctions includes the names of R. S. Aitkcn. of Ballioi. director of the Institute of Medical Research. Hammersmith. London, and anointed reviiis profesr sor of medicine at the University of Aberdeen, and of J. A. Dunning, of New College, who is now principal 0 r Scots College. Warwick. Queensland. . , Publications mentioned are W. i. c Aircy’s (Merton) “Short History of New'Zealand," and “Britain and World Affairs, 1783-1936" (in collaboration with another): J. M. Bertram's (New College) “First Act in China" and “Unconquered”; and A. E. Porritt\ (Magdalen) edited “EssenH.iof Modern Surgery" (in collaboration with another).