The Press: Private Bogey

For its latest and wackiest campaign—against Rhodes Scholars—the Chicago Tribune this week got an angry but considered answer. It came from an organization of which the U.S. public seldom hears: the Rhodes Trust.

Reason for this unusual break into print was that the Tribune had been bug-eyed for weeks over a private and patently ridiculous bogey: education of U.S. youths in foreign countries. No one was much surprised that the Anglophobiac Tribune saw the greatest menace of all in U.S. students at the great English universities.

Rhodes Scholars, solemnly charged the Tribune, are a...

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