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Murray To Select Scholars
Fitting Ideal Characteristics

"A combination of Mr.
Jefferson, Daniel Boone, and the
Angel Gabriel" is how a Look
Magazine article described the
annual Rhodes Scholarship
competition which will take place
at the University and across the
Nation starting at the end of this
month.

J. J. Murray, who relieved
Arthur Kyle Davis after his many
years as chairman of the selection
committee, is looking for as many
students as possible to fit the above
description. Applications and
information are available through
Mr. Murray in room 254 in Gilmer
Hall. All applicants must return the
forms to him no later than the last
week in October.

A committee of University
faculty will review all candidates
and choose those it feels are eligible
and best fulfill the requirements set
down by Cecil John Rhodes, who
was a diamond entrepreneur in
South Africa, but not an
undistinguished student at Oxford
University.

All candidates who pass the
faculty screening committee will
complete at the state level in
December. Each state may send
two candidates to its district
committee, each representing six
states.

Of the twelve applicants who
appear before the district
committee, four will go to the
University of Oxford as a Rhodes
Scholar. They will attend Oxford
for at least two years and will
receive an annual stipend of 1150
pounds.

To be eligible for a Rhodes
Scholarship, a candidate must be a
male citizen of the United States,
with at least five years domicile,
and unmarried.

By October of the year of
application he must have passed his
eighteenth but not have passed his
twenty-fourth birthday; and must
have attained at least a third-year
standing at some recognized
degree-granting institution.

Mr. Rhodes indicated in his will
that candidates should have: (1)
"literary and scholastic
attainments;" (2) "fondness for and
success in manly sports;" (3)
"qualities of manhood, truth,
courage, devotion to duty,
sympathy for and protection of the
weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and
fellowship;" (4) "moral force of
character and of instincts to lead."

Among the more illustrious
American Rhodes Scholars are Sen.
J. William Fulbright, Supreme
Court Justices John Harlan and
Byron White, Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, and Rep. Carl B.
Albert.