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Today is the last day for receiving applications for admission to candidacy for appointment as Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts in 1905. The stipend of the scholarship, as fixed by the founder, is *300 per annum, and the tenure is for three consecutive academical years...
...selection of a scholar. Under the rules prescribed by the trustees, the committee of selection is at liberty to impose upon the candidates such additional tests, if any, as they think suitable in order to arrive at a choice conforming as closely as possible to the objects of the founder. It is therefore possible that no result will be reached in today's meeting...
...began with the meeting of de la Tour and Governor Winthrop, whom he mentioned as Harvard's civil founder, and then traced the part played by Harvard graduates in winning possession of the continent from the French. He then spoke of the early New England migration to Acadia, with its large accompaniment of Harvard clergymen and of other graduates who became prominent in the contest for responsible government. The contribution of Harvard to the Loyalist cause was next described. In conclusion. Dr. Rand mentioned the large influence in Canadian affairs exercised by Canadian graduates from Harvard throughout the past century...
...Professor Alexander V. G. Allen, D.D., h.'86, of the Episcopal Theological School Cambridge, will deliver the Dudleian lecture for this year, in the Fogg feature Room this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject for tonight is the second of the series of four prescribed by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley 1690 in 1750, and was last given in 1900 by Professor C. H. Toy of the Divinity School. Dr. Allen will speak an the "Roman Catholic Church and the Modern Sense of Nationality...
...scholarship at the University of Oxford for the period of residence beginning with Michaelmas Term in the second week of October, 1904, is to be awarded by the committee, the scholar to be elected from those who shall have passed the qualifying examination. The stipend as fixed by the founder is *300 per annum, and the tenure is "for three consecutive academical years," the payments to be made quarterly...