William J. Cocke, popular Carolina student and Asheville boy was the winner of the Rhodes Scholarship awarded for North Carolina at the elections held by the state committee at Raleigh, Dec. 19.
Mr. Cocke was elected over a field of 15 candidates, all North Carolinians but from schools over the United States. Among the names who were applicants are those of outstanding men from the campuses of the larger schools of the state. There were three candidates from the University of North Carolina beside the successful one.
Thirty-two scholarships are awarded yearly, only one to a student from each state of the union, and are tenable for three years at Oxford University, England. Awards are made on the basis of literary and scholastic ability, character and leadership, physical vigor, in all of which the Asheville boy was adjudged to excel by the candidates.
The list of candidates is as follows: S.B. Wallis of Asheville, from State College; R.T. Hardaway of Durham, from Duke University; E.R. Fisher of Garner from Duke University; L.A. Peacock of Raleigh, from Wake Forest College; T.A. McEachern of Asheville, from the University of Virginia; G.M. Medlin of Elizabeth City, from Elizabeth City, of Wake Forest College and Princeton University; L.E. Andrews of High Point from Wake Forest College; and J.M. Potter of Burlington, from State College; F.L. Tarketon of Moorisville, from State College; C.C. Jernigan of Durham, from Duke University; W.J. Cocke Jr. of Asheville, from the University of North Carolina; R.B. Raney of Raleigh, from the University of South Carolina; J.F. Cooper of Clinton, of the University of South Carlina; George B. Allen of Hudson, from Duke University; and Ted R. Ray of Hendersonville, from the University of Chicago.
From the front page of The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 7, 1926
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