Word: rhodeses
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* Harvard has not done as well in winning Marshall Scholarships as it has in getting Rhodes. In the past 10 years Harvard has received only 5 Marshall awards. But Harvard seniors have won 33 Rhodes Scholarships in the past 5 years, over one-fifth of all the Rhodes in the...
* The character of the two awards is very different. Kinasewich described the Marshall interview committees as looking for someone who would get the most out of a research library. The social side of a student's interests, he said, were less important than in the Rhodes.
* A Rhodes Scholarship appears prestigious enough to qualify as the basis for a draft deferment in a number of local boards. Kinasewich noted, however, that most draft boards are wary of giving special treatment to winners of either award.
"We will not be able to tell exactly what accounts for the increase in Rhodes over Marshalls until we have interviewed the applicants," Kinasewich said. He added that he hoped to see a greater increase in applications for the Sheldon, Shaw and Knox Travelling Fellowships.