RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS
Bll.L TO SANCTION MODIFICATIONS. LONDON, April 5. The trustees of the'will of Mr Cecil Rhodes have presented a Bill to Parliament the object which is to give them greater flexibility in the distribution of the -scholarships and also in the students’ time of residence at Oxford. This was referred to a select committee of the House of Lords in tiie usual way. In the will Mr Cecil It bodes made definite allotments of s. holarships to a wide number of colonies and territories and the United States. It was also laid down that the period of training at Oxford should be three years.
Since the date of the will, however, it is claimed that the confines of some icrritorios have altered—neither the Transvaal nor the Orange Free State were then within the British Empire Alberta and Saskatchewan had not come into recognised existence, Kenya had not been colonised
Moreover, some likely men for scholarships had already had a certain amount of university training, and did not contemplate with favour doing the full three years at Oxford. The trustees, therefore, seek power <to “make such changes in iTie number, distribution, tenure, duration, and administration of the scholarships provided for by the will as will in their judgment best fulfil the purposes and intention o l'tlie testator.”
In seeking such power they state ihat the total number of .scholarships dlotted to certan colonies—luiodesia, •A utu Africa, Australia, New Zealand Canada, Newfoundland—and the United States of America shall not he reduced. There was no such statement, however, about the three scholarships bequeathed to Jamaica and the three to Bermuda; Jamaica and Bermuda therefore became alarmed, and petitioned to he allowed to remain under the distinct conditions of the will.
Evidence was given before the committee dealing with the Bill by representatives of .Tamaicn r: nml Bermuda and it was decided that these two countries should retain the scholarships originally allotted to them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 8
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