SCHOLARSHIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 1

SCHOLARSHIP

Successful Rhodes Candidate Arrives

YOUTH OF MANY PRIZES Mr. C. A. Sharp, 8.A., selected yesterday as one of the New Zealand Rhodes Scholars for the year arrived by the express this morning. It was at the Auckland Grammar School that he received his secondary education. His picture is reproduced in this issue. Out of his 20 years he has squeezed a long list of scholarships, showing a special literary bent. Beginning by being dux of the Brookland School, Wellington, he won a junior national scholarship and a John Wilkinson Scholarship. Then in the University entrance scholarship examinations he won highest marks in the Dominion for English and Latin, and second highest in French. At Otago University he won a Mac-millan-Brown prize for an essay on “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” and a Bowen prize for a geographical essay on the Northern Territory of Australia. For English and Latin he won James Clark class prizes and also a George Young scholarship. Then he carried off Senior University Scholarships in English and Latin and crowned his achievements with a Rhodes Scholarship. “They seem to have taken - sport less into consideration during the last few years. That’s one reason I can see why I have been given a Rhodes Scholarship,” he said modestly. But he has played for the University senior hockey team in 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927, and he is proficient enough at tennis to take a handicap doubles in the Otago provincial tournament. Mr. Sharp has taken a large share in the student life of Otago University. He has been a member of the executive of the Students’ Association, president of the Literary Society and of the Students’ Council. Languages have been his forte throughout his career, and Mr. Sharp will probably pursue that line of study during his three years at Oxford. But he is a good New Zealander, and intends to come back again.