The U. S. scholars whom Cecil Rhodes, diamond miner, endowed with three-year scholarships at Oxford University, were last week brought upon the black & white carpet of the U. S. press. There are some 550 of them living today of the 608 who have gone to and returned from Oxford since 1904. A question about them had been raised by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, lately Government education minister and for many years a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. The question had been...
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