By his will, Mr. Cecil Rhodes, in his desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which will result from the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world, and to encourage in students from the United States of America an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, without withdrawing their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth, directs his trustees to establish sixty colonial scholarships for male students of $1,-500 each a year for three years at the University of Oxford, these colonial scholarships being spread over most of the colonies, twenty-four being allotted to South Africa.

Two Oxford scholarships are to be allotted to each of the existing States and Territories of the United States of America - 104 in all. By a codicil executed in South Africa, Mr. Rhodes, after stating that the German Emperor had made instruction in English compulsory in German schools, establishes fifteen scholarships for students of German birth (five in each of the first three years after his death), of $1,250 each, tenable for three years to be nominated by the German Emperor, for "a good understanding between England, Germany, and the United States of America will secure the peace of the world, and educational relationships form the strongest tie." So that the students who shall be elected to the scholarships shall not be merely bookworms, regard is to be had, not only to their "literary and scholastic attainments," but also to their "fondness of and success in manly outdoor sports, qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship," moral force of character and instincts of leadership. "No student shall be qualified or disqualified for election to a scholarship on account of his race or religious opinions." The scholars are to be distributed among all the colleges of the University of Oxford, and there is to be an annual dinner of past and present scholars and trustees.

Dr. G. R. Parkin, Principal of the Upper Canada School, Toronto, was appointed organizing agent for the trustees. - "Daily Mail" Year Book.