Our Rhodes Scholar.

This year, with a whole heart, we feel we can congratulate the Committee, which selects New Zealand's Rhodes Scholars. We have not always seen eye to eye with the Committee in the past. We have always felt that it attached too great weight to the possession of degrees. But this year, we think that all our readers will agree that in Athol Hudson, New Zealand will be worthly represented in the old country. We value Hudson not for any degree of popularity, which he may possess, nor for his scholastic attainments, for which we don't care twopence; but we esteem in him those qualities of humility and of humour, of courtesy and of strength, of tolerance and of patience, of honesty of purpose and of clearness of vision, which to our mind, go to the make-up of the true University man. Probably most of our readers will have heard the story of the Oxford don, who, with gentle irony, spoke of the average Rhodes Scholar as possessing "all the qualities of Jesus Christ a Hercules." We are proud of Hudson, not because he possesses a unique combination of qualities, but because primarily an always, he is a man. There is no need to speak of his services to the College. Such will not be forgotten by who knew him. Always of a retiring nature. He work was as through as it was unobtrusive. He was indeed, one of those "who do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."