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Eventual success in removing the sex restriction depends on how many women apply and are endorsed by their schools, and on whether the American secretary of the Rhodes committee, William Barber, changes his previously timid stand on the issue...
...Barber was the person who took it upon himself to disqualify Eileen Lash, the woman who last year first received a college endorsement, from competition for the scholarship even before the state committee had a chance to review her application. His justification for that action--that American institutions, as beneficiaries of the trust fund, have no right to challenge the requirements set by the founder--is a poor substitution of manners for morals...
...month before the interview scheduled by her state committee, Lach received a letter from William Barber. Barber, secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee in America. In that letter, Barber told Lach he had instructed the Minnisota state committee to void her application because...
Reached yesterday at the American Rhodes Scholarship Committee headquarters in Wesleyan, Conn., Barber said the state Rhodes committees can only act in conjunction with the criteria for candidacy established in the Parliamentary statute...
...guests beneficiaries of this scholarship, American colleges have no right to violate the criteria for eligibility," Barber said...