"Marshall scholars?" said Britain's Prince Philip to an American not long ago. "Oh, yes. Wonderful of your government to send the lads over. Fine gesture." It is quite the other way around: the British government established Marshall Scholarships just ten years ago as a gesture to the U.S., naming them for the late General George Catlett Marshall, who inspired the postwar plan of U.S. aid to Europe.
Philip's confusion is not surprising. Marshall Scholarships have been so overshadowed by Rhodes Scholarships, the pinnacle of U.S. campus prestige, that most Americans are unaware of them. Yet last week, as the academic...
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