IN the contest for the Rhodes' Scholarship this year the selectors had little difficulty in eliminating all but two candidates—C. F. D. Cook, of Canterbury College, and P. W. Robertson, of Victoria College. Of these the former had the better record in athletics, and he had risen to the first rank in his own line of study—Classics. But it was generally agreed that Robertson's work in Chemistry, particularly in original research, defied competition.

Of the other candidates C. F. D. Cook had received a "cabled report" telling him he had won first-class honours in Latin and Greek. He was a cricketer, footballer, volunteer and "Dialectician." His high-jumping performances at inter-college sports are well-known. J. W. Shaw, of Otago, is a Divinity student. He is to be capped this year for first-class honours. He played football and cricket and took part in gymnastics and Harriers' runs. He was a leading member of the Debating Society and editor of the "University Review." J. Dinneen, of Auckland, sat for the B.A. examination last November and passed, He was captain of St. John's football team and a good all-round athlete. Ivan Logan is a Wanganui School boy. He had, of course, little chance against grown graduates. Yet in the opinion of many he approached, in one respect, nearer to the ideal set up by the founder of the Scholarship than did any of the other candidates. He appeared to be a "leader of men" and was certainly a good all-round man.