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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Frank Aydelotte '03, American Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarships Trustees, announced yesterday that seven members of the University had been appointed as Rhodes scholars for the forth-coming year. In an interview he explained the new system by which the Rhodes scholars will hereafter be chosen and gave a...
Including these seven men a total of 63 have been appointed this year. Under the new regulation, these men were chosen by committees of ex-Rhodes scholars in each state instead of by the former committees composed of college presidents. They will also escape the qualifying examinations for admission which...
"The Rhodes Scholarships started in America in 1904," said Professor Adelotte," and have gone on without interruption until they were suspended because of the war, after the appointments in 1917. In those days appointments were made by committees of college Presidents, and all men were required to take entrance examinations...
"Hereafter men will be appointed for scholarships entirely on the basis of their college records and on certain testimonials which they must submit to the committee. Later they will appear before the committee in person to check up their records."
Mr. Hearst's best seller is the Lampoon's autumnal objective for 1919. And what the Lampoon's travesteurs do to Cosmopolitan's headliners is worthy of placement on Mr. Hearst's best comic pages.