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them, keep in touch with them, and encourage 

 them to repay their loans as they become in a 

 position to do so. Some five hundred women 

 are thus enabled every year to improve their lot, 

 and the promptness with which they repay the 

 loans is a proof of the admirable character of 

 all the arrangements. 



In the matter of migration the trend is all in 

 one direction, and it has been left to Mr. Rhodes 

 to initiate a scheme which brings the youth of 

 the colonies to the Mother Country. British 

 Universities have always attracted a certain num- 

 ber of colonial students, but until Mr. Rhodes 

 provided the ways and means, some 60,000 a 

 year, there was no system of organised selection. 

 At the present time more than a hundred colonial 

 scholars, chosen on grounds of combined physical, 

 intellectual, and moral energy, are being educated 

 at Oxford, and while they will benefit from the 

 added power given by three years of earnest 

 work, and will not enter professional life with the 

 feverish haste which in new countries tends to 

 superficiality, 1 they should give as much as they 

 receive, and widen the horizon of those with 

 whom they associate. On many matters, as 

 every one knows who has studied the colonies 

 on the spot, Englishmen and colonials do not 

 think alike, and it is to be hoped that the Rhodes 

 scholars will form friendships that will persist 

 through life, and offer a medium for the regular 



1 Cf. "The Rhodes' Scholarships," by Dr. G. R. Parkin, 

 Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, vol. xxxvi. p. 3. 



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