TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12405, 29 December 1909, Page 2

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS.

There now appears to be every promise that the excellent scheme inaugurated in England a few months ago off introducing travel into the curriculum of university training will h& given effect to shortly. The idea is to make a given number of scholarships- available in certain universities of the United Kingdom, providing a tour of the United States and Canada. Conversely ! it is proposed that members of leading Transatlantic universities shall be conducted on an educational pilgrimagethrough England. All that is. now reI rjuirpd to launch the venture is the money to found the scolarships, but !no difficulty on that score is apprehended. The idea, of course, is not a new one.. Exchanges of soolars between ■ England and Continental countries have been carried .on for some years, but on a small scale, and with no particularly definite purpose in view. Some I time ago, aJso, a scheme was propounded for the exchange of pchool teachers between Grejat Britain and other parts of the Enmire, but so far as New Zealand was concerned the plan did not meet with any success. The travel scholarships proposal first mentioned, however, has been carefully worked out by strong executive committees on both sides of the "herring pond." The scope of the movement is by no means defined b^- the provision of scolarships. The bureaux that have bf-en established will afford facilities to all bona fide students who wish to gain a practical insight into the work and life of other portions of the world to gratify their ambition at a minimum of cost and inconvenience The method of election to the travel scholarships. which are to number not less than 28 for each of the throe exoerimental years

. .fourteen in the United Kingdom, ten in the United States and four in Canada . . will be on the lines of the Rhodes scholarships, which are to number not less than 28 for each of the three experimental years, .fourteen in the United Kingdom, ten in the United States, and" four in Canada —will be on the lines of the Rhodes scholarships, and the selected scholars will travel for ten weeks during the long vacation through the respective countries. The scheme appears to be an admirable one, but as it has not the Imperialistic idea as its foundation, it might, perhaps. haAre been more advantageous from the English point of view if the selected students were brought into touch with phases of foreign life. That is to say, ■it would possibly be of greater service from every point of view if Germany had been substituted for tho United States. No doubt, however, this point has been duly considered, and that there are good and sufficient reasons for the present arrangement of matters.

Bowling Analysis.—Short none for 21, Davy none for 5, Shepherd four for 40, Pomeroy two for 19, Rowe none for 15, Colvillo none for 14, Taylor three for 11. AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY. Pomeroy, c Parker, b Holland 16 Short, b Holland 9 Davy, c Pearce, b Holland 18 Shepherd (capt.), lbw, b Parker 0 Rountree, b Parker 6 Taylor, c Pearce, b Greig 6 C'olvile, b Parker 0 Rowe, not out y 29 McLean, b Swan 4 Killen, b Swan 0 Bowman, b Swan 2 Extras 13 Total 103 Bowling Analysis.—Holland, three for 20, Parker three for 18 3 Burrett none for 32, Greig one for 19, Swan three for 11.