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Those who have applied for admission to candidacy for the Rhodes Scholarship examination for the state of Massachusetts are reminded that the qualifying examinations will begin in Room 208 in the Administration Building of the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, today. The examinations will continue tomorrow and will embrace the following subjects: arithmetic; either the elements of algebra or the elements of geometry; Greek and Latin grammar, translation from English into Latin; either unprepared translation from Greek and Latin or unprepared translation from one of these languages and a book in the other, or one Greek and Latin book chosen from a given list. Candidates are to assemble at 8.30 o'clock, and the examinations, which will begin promptly at 9 o'clock, will be given as noted below: today, 9 to 11 o'clock, translation from Latin into English; 1 to 3 o'clock, Latin prose; 4 to 6 o'clock, arithmetic. Tomorrow, 9 to 11 o'clock, translation from Greek into English; 1 to to 2 o'clock, Latin grammar; 2.10 to 3.10 o'clock, Greek grammar; 4 to 6 o'clock, algebra or geometry.
One scholarship at the University of Oxford for the period of residence beginning in October, 1917, is awarded by the Committee of Selection for Massachusetts, the scholar to be elected by the Committee from among such persons as shall have passed the qualifying examinations announced above. The stipend of the scholarship as fixed by the founder is fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
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