The Trustees desire to have assurances of full preparation up to the Oxford standard of Responsions of all Scholars elected by the four College Schools to which Scholarships are assigned in Cape Colony.
To this end permission has been given to these Schools to allow their elected Scholars, before taking up the Scholarship at Oxford, to pursue their studies, for a limited time after leaving school, at the higher institutions of the Colony.
In view of existing educational conditions, leave is occasionally given at present by the Trustees for candidates for the Scholarships assigned to Rhodesia who are being educated in other parts of Africa or in England to compete, provided that their parents reside in or are intimately connected with the Colony. In these instances the candidate is allowed to take Responsions or its equivalent either in England or in the Colony where he is receiving his education. Application for leave to compete under these conditions must be made to the Trustees directly or through the Director of Education for Rhodesia. Other things being equal, preference will be given to candidates educated in Rhodesia.
The United States of America.
An elected scholar shall have reached, before going into residence, at the least the end of his sophomore or second-year work at some recognized degree-granting University or College of the United States. An exception to this rule is made in the case of the State of Massachusetts, where, at the request of the Committee of Selection, authority is given to appoint from the Secondary Schools.
Candidates may elect whether they will apply for the Scholarship of the State or Territory in which they have acquired any large part of their educational qualification, or for that of the State or Territory in which they have their ordinary private domicile, home or residence. They may pass the qualifying examination at any centre, but they must be prepared to present themselves before election to the Committee of Selection in the State or Territory they select.
No candidate may compete in more than one State or Territory either in the same year or in successive years.
Selection.[40]
In accordance with the wish of Mr. Rhodes, the Trustees desire that[41] ‘in the selection of a student to a Scholarship regard shall be had to (i) his literary and scholastic attainments; (ii) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like; (iii) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (iv) his exhibition, during school days, of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates’. Mr. Rhodes suggested that (ii) and (iii) should be decided in any School or College by votes of fellow students, and (iv) by the Head of the School or College.