With regard to caution money (column 2), see ‘2. Caution Money’ above.
| Entrance and Matriculation Fees for Commoners. | Caution money for Commoners. | Tuition per year. | Room Rent per year. | Degree Fees. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.A. | M.A. | |||||||||||
| £ | s. | £ | £ | s. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| Balliol | 5 | 0 | 21 | 25 | 0 | £8 up., average £15 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Brasenose | 5 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 4 | £9 up. to £23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Christ Church | 5 | 0 | 25 | 24 | 0 | £6 to £28 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Corpus Christi | No. | 30 | 27 | 0 | £10 to £16 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Exeter | 5 | 0 | 25 | 22 | 1 | £10 10s. to £16 16s. | 4 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Hertford | 5 | 5 | 30 | 22 | 10 | £12 to £18 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Jesus | 2 | 0 | 20 | 21 | 0 | £8 8s. to £15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Keble[74] | 5 | 0 | (Special arrangement. See opposite page.) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Lincoln | No. | 30 | 24 | 0 | £10 10s. to £16 10s. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Magdalen | No. | 40 | 24 | 0 | £10 to £28 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Merton | 1 | 10 | 30 | 22 | 1 | £7 to £18 18s. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| New College | 5 | 0 | 30 | 24 | 0 | average under £15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Oriel | 5 | 0 | 30 | 22 | 10 | average £12 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| Pembroke | 5 | 0 | 30 | 23 | 0 | £9 to £15 15s. | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Queen’s[75] | 5 | 0 | 30 | 22 | 10 | £7 10s. to £21 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| St. John’s | 4 | 0 | 30 | 22 | 1 | £8 8s. to £16 16s. | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 0 |
| Trinity | 5 | 0 | 30 | 24 | 0 | £12 to £16 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| University | 5 | 0 | 30 | 25 | 4 | £6 6s. to £18 18s. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Wadham | 5 | 0 | 30 | 22 | 10 | £9 to £16 10s. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Worcester | 8 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 0 | £9 9s. to £15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| St. Edmund Hall[76] | 3 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 15 | £8 to £12 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| Non-collegiate.[77] | ||||||||||||
CHAPTER VIII
OPPORTUNITIES
THE VALUE OF A RHODES SCHOLARSHIP—QUALIFICATIONS—CHOICE OF A COLLEGE—CHOICE OF WORK—ADVANTAGES
There are two questions which are of vital importance to every person who is considering a Rhodes Scholarship, whether Candidate, member of a Committee of Selection, or a chosen Scholar. What advantages does a Rhodes Scholarship offer? What opportunities does Oxford offer to a man who has won the Scholarship?
The ultimate answer to both depends upon the type of man who is chosen; while two very important factors are the spirit in which the Scholar accepts his appointment and the course which he chooses to follow at Oxford.
There can be found no better statement of the qualities which are desired in the typical Scholar than that which Rhodes himself suggested (see [p. 18]). In this outline, Rhodes, consciously or unconsciously, epitomized the qualifications of the best product (in theory at least) of the Oxford life and system. Naturally, the better the adaptive possibilities of the material, the better the chance of turning out a finished product of the desired quality.
A few words may serve to emphasize the comprehensiveness of these qualifications. Rhodes’s first requirement was that regard should be paid to ‘literary and scholastic attainments’. However, to this qualification he gives, in his scheme of units, but three points in ten. He desired neither ‘bookworms’ nor ‘grinds’; but men with the broad interests of the student, which lie not alone in intense study of books, but in a wide humanity and true culture. Rhodes preferred men who, with fixed habits of work and high scholastic ambitions, at the same time are alive to the importance of guarding ‘lest our culture separate us from humanity’; he believed that education consists in giving as well as getting, and that the danger of too high scholastic aims lies in drawing the scholar away from active participation in the political and social life of his fellow students. For this reason, while he insists upon a high standard of scholarship, he gives seven points in ten to qualifications other than scholastic.
‘Fondness for, and success in, manly outdoor sports’ ought not to allow of much misinterpretation. Yet Rhodes Scholars were once advertised as ‘all athletes’, and there has been disappointment in some quarters because they are not ‘all athletes’. There are degrees of athleticism. One may be athletic without being an athlete. And it has happened that one may be a Rhodes Scholar without being particularly athletic. However, ‘fondness for manly outdoor sports’ is above all a characteristic of Oxford men. ‘Exercise’ is a part of Oxford life. The athlete has great advantages in the Oxford system. The man who comes to Oxford without athletic propensities and without a hearty interest in sports is apt not only to have a dull time of it, but to find himself in an ‘unhealthy, enervating atmosphere’. It is not necessary that one be a ‘record’ man or a ‘star’, but the athletic qualification should be given its proper significance.