Rhodes Scholarship Selections.

Owing to the decision of the Selection Committee last year, no Rhodes Scholars were sent from the University of New Zealand to Oxford University to further their studies. Consequent on this decision, the Rhodes Scholarship Trustees in England have decided to allow New Zealand four scholars this year instead of two.

It is to be sincerely hoped that the local committee will take advantage of this offer, and allow four students the opportunity of continuing their studies abroad. There must surely be four men in the University of New Zealand worthy of the honour of becoming Rhodes Scholars, and it is to be hoped that the members of the selection committee here will not allow their personal views as to the particular type required to blind them to any inherent ability in the candidates.

The committee has not made its task any easier by its failure to send any Scholars overseas last year, so that if the same qualifications are called for, some difficulty may be experienced in making their selection. However, in the past, New Zealand's Rhodes Scholars have been of a high standard. Many of them have not shown themselves particularly outstanding in New Zealand, but have blossomed out when they have arrived in the Old Country. One has only to mention the names of W. G. Kalaugher, G. G. Aitken, P. Minns, and J. E. Lovelock to see that our scholars in the past have proved well worthy of the distinction.