peace of the world and educational relations form the strongest tie.”[1]
The selection of the scholars.My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the Scholarships shall not be merely bookworms I direct that in the election of a student to a Scholarship regard shall be had to
The four qualifications.(i.) his literary and scholastic attainments
(ii.) his fondness of 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 the 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 for those latter attributes will be likely in after-life to guide him to esteem the performance of public duty as his highest aim.
- ↑ I am assured, says the Daily Telegraph Berlin correspondent, that Kaiser Wilhelm himself was much struck by the donor’s generosity, and by the motives which actuated him in thinking of Germany in this way. His Majesty was specially touched by the attention shown to himself, and forthwith signified his intention to comply with the stipulation that candidates for the scholarships should be nominated by himself. In due time they will be so selected by the Kaiser.
Mr. W. G. Black, of Glasgow, writes to the Spectator:—“Mr. Rhodes seems to have been impressed by the German Emperor’s direction that English should be taught in the schools of Germany. It may not be uninteresting to note that his Majesty’s first action on receiving Heligoland from Great Britain was to prohibit the teaching of English in the island schools. That was in 1890. The prohibition was bitterly resented by the people, who had since 1810 been subjects of the British Crown, but they were, of course, powerless.”
