After considering the large number of applications for the Rhodes Scholarship, the Committee has selected the final 15 students who are still eligible for the award. To one of these men the scholarship will be awarded today, it was announced by Professor W. C. Greene '11. Included in the group of those who still have an opportunity to receive the scholarship are five Harvard men. Universities and colleges from all over the state, including Amherse, Williams, Harvard, and others, had many competitors for the award.
It is interesting to note that in the last 16 elections, 11 men have been awarded the scholarship, while Williams comes next in rank with five men. Since 1904, Harvard and Williams have been the only two institutions in Massachusetts which have been awarded the scholarships.
The list of the men who have received the scholarship as representatives of Harvard University and the year that they received it for the past 23 years is as follows: F. H. Fobes '04, 4904; C. H. Haring '07, 1907; W. C. Greene '11, 1911; G. H. Gifford '13, 1913; C. F. Hawkins '21, 1914; F. T. Smith '11, 1916; C. C. Brinton '19, 1919; W. C. Holbrook '20, 1920; W. J. Maier Jr. '22, 1922; Mason Hammond '25, 1925; W. I. Nichols '26, 1926.
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