Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-06 | Page 40 | Rhodes Scholars of America Lead at Oxford

RHODES SCHOLARS OF AMERICA LEAD ATOXFORD Take More First and Second Sec-ond Honors Than Do British Cousins j I CONCORD, X. ft. Feb. 5.-A com- pari son of record which shows that I American Rhodes scholars take more j firms and seconds In the honor schools , of Oxford university than the Kngllsh honors men Is contained in a statist!- j cal study of the work of the American scholars published In the January number of the American Oxonian, Issued Is-sued today. Thin magazine Is edited hy I'rfifeasiir Frank duiQLLCA mert can secretary of the Rhodes scholar-sh scholar-sh ips. The study of the Rhodes scholar record, was prepared by Profeaaor R. W. Burg ess of llrown university. In it are collected for the first time facta concerning theae men. their preparation prepara-tion in the United States, their records at Oxford and their careers since their return. NOT SO HIGH. About four-fifths of the men take the Oxford B. A. decree in one of the final honor schools and one-fifth take research degrees. Although the Americans Ameri-cans lead the Kngllnh honor men In firsts and seconds, their standing in not no high as that of the Kngllsh scholarshio men who are trained from their public: school days in the work represented by Oxford examinations. Klve hundred odd Rhodes scholars have been appointed from the United Htates, representing 172 American colleges col-leges and universities. At Oxford one-half of them studied law, one-sixth one-sixth modern history or economics, one-sixth humanities, including classics clas-sics and Knglish literature, and the remainder re-mainder studied a wide range of professional pro-fessional and cultural subjects. Of those who had a year or more at Oxford before the war. 70 per cent represented their colleges on one of the various athletic teams. Fourteen per cent representd Oxford against Cambridge in athletics. HOW DISTRIBUTED. More than one-third of the scholars on their return to this country have gone into university or college teaching, teach-ing, about one-fourth are practicing law, more than 10 per cent are in business busi-ness and the others have engaged in cnYtrniUfnl aervire, social and lellgl-ous lellgl-ous work, medicine, scientific, literary and editorial occupations. I ro feasor Kurgesa points out that the expectation of Cecil Rhodes, founder of the scholarships, "or at least of some of the early writers on the subject," was that the Rhodes scholars would enter politics "in the Kngiiah sense" or go into the diplomatic diplo-matic service. "Itut neither of these lines." says Professor Burgess, "affords a career In the United States for a man with his own wa yto make; the organisation of the diplomatic service rather than the scholars or the scholarship plan is to blame for this imperfect fulfillment of early expectations." 1