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sealed up in a fine glass tube should not be in- 

 serted into the very heart of the cancer, thus 

 acting directly upon the diseased material. 

 Would it not be worth while making experiments 

 along this line? 



Yours sincerely, 

 (Signed) Alexander Gbaham Bell. 



Baddeck, N. S., July 21, 1903. 

 Dr. a. Geaham Bell, 



Baddeek, N. S. 

 Dear Dr. Bell: 



The suggestion w-hich you make in regard to 

 the application of the radium rays to the sub- 

 stance of deep seated cancer I regard as very valu- 

 able. If such experiments should be made, I 

 have no doubt they would prove successful in 

 many cases where we now have failures. 

 Yours sincerely, 



(Signed) Z. T. SowEES. 



THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. 



The trustees of the will of the late C. J. 

 Rhodes hate prepared a memorandum for the 

 information of college authorities and intend- 

 ing candidates for scholarships in the United 

 States, which states that the first election of 

 scholars in the United States will be made 

 between February and May, 1904. The 

 elected scholars will commence residence in 

 October, 1904. A qualifying esamination will 

 be held within this period in each state and 

 territory, or at centers which can be easily 

 reached. This examination is not competi- 

 tive, but is intended to give assurance that 

 all candidates are fully qualified to enter on 

 a course of study at Oxford University. It 

 will, therefore, be based on the requirements 

 for responsions — the first public examination 

 exacted by the university from each candidate 

 for a degree. The Rhodes scholars wiU be 

 selected from candidates who have successfully 

 passed this examination. One scholar will 

 be chosen for each state and territory to which 

 scholarships are assigned. 



The committees and the universities making 

 appointments will be furnished with a state- 

 ment of the qualifications which Mr. Rhodes 

 desired in the holders of his scholarships, and 

 they will be asked in exercising their right of 

 selection to comply as nearly as circumstances 

 will permit with the spirit of the testator's 



wishes. They wiU also be asked to furnish to 

 the trustees as full a statement as possible of 

 the school and college career of each elected 

 scholar, with the special grounds of his ap- 

 pointment, together with suggestions, if de- 

 sired, as to the course of study for which he 

 is best fitted. 



It has been decided that all scholars shall 

 have reached at least the end of their sopho- 

 more, or second year work at some recognized 

 degree-granting university or college of the 

 United States. Scholars must be unmarried, 

 must be citizens of the United States, and 

 must be between nineteen and twenty-five 

 years of age. Where several candidates pre- 

 sent themselves from a single college or uni- 

 versity, the committees of selection will re- 

 quest the faculty of the college to decide 

 between their claims on the basis of Mr. 

 Rhodes's suggestions, and present to the com- 

 mittee the name of the candidate chosen by 

 that college as its representative in the final 

 election. 



The president of the state university or 

 college is in each of the following states chair- 

 man of the committee of selection for that 

 state : 



Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colo- 

 rado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, 

 Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis- 

 sippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New 

 Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, 

 Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 

 South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, 

 West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 



The following chairmen have been named 

 for other states: 



Connecticut, President Arthur T. Hadley, LL.D., 

 Y'ale University. 



Illinois, President W. R. Harper, Ph.D., D.D., 

 University of Chicago. 



Kentucky, President D. B. Gray, D.D., George- 

 to^vn College. 



Maryland, President Ira Remsen, LL.D., Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



Massachusetts, President Charles W. Eliot, 

 LL.D., Harvard University. 



New Jersey, President Woodrow Wilson, LL.D., 

 Princeton University. 



New York State, President Nicholas Murray, 

 Butler, LL.D., Columbia L^niversity. 



