Word: americans
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...memorandum has been issued by the trustees of the will of the late Cecil Rhodes for the information of College authorities and candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships. By the terms of Mr. Rhode's will two American scholarships are allotted to each of the present States and Territories of the United States, besides scholarships for Germany and the English Colonies. The men to whom these scholarships are awarded are each to receive $1,500 a year, and are to study for three years at Oxford University. Each student may choose his college at Oxford, as there is no restriction...
...Oxford, containing full information about the examinations of the university, subject to changes made since the last edition was issued, can be ordered at the same address. "Oxford As It Is," by Mr. Louis Dyer '74 of Harvard and Baliol College, a small pamphlet for the use of American candidates, containing all essential information in a condensed form, can be obtained from Macmillan & Co., Fifth Avenue, New York City...
...committee of selection in the state or territory in which they apply of their intention to present themselves for examination. All candidates must be unmarried, citizens of the United States, between nineteen and twenty-five years of age; and have completed second year work at some recognized degree-granting American university or college. Where several candidates present themselves from a single university or college, in faculty of the college will be requested to decide between their claims on the basis of Mr. Rhodes's suggestions, and present to the committee of selection the name of the candidate chosen...
...curatorships is to secure the interest and services of persons specially competent to advise the Library in regard to purchases in special fields. The appointments so far made are the following: H. N. Gay, Jr., '96, Curator of Italian History of the Nineteenth Century; H. Bingham, Curator of South American History and Literature; E. H. Wells '97, Curator of Modern English Literature. Mr. Gay is a non-resident member of the Graduate School and served the Library last year by buying large numbers of Italian books in Rome, with money provided by Ambassador G. von L. Meyer '79. In addition...
...Representatives in 1883, of the State Senate in the year 1885-6, and trustee of the Worcester Insane Hospital for ten years until 1898. He had been a member of the State Library Commission, of the State Board of Charities, of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester; of the Lancaster Town Library and Committee, and of the G. A. R. During the Civil War he was adjutant and captain of the 55th Illinois volunteers. He was professor of ancient languages at the Phillips Exeter Academy from 1853 to 1955. As an author...