Show CECIL RHODES' RHODES INTENTIONS The Time trustees of the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford Oxford Ox Ox- ford for 9 1908 shows that the total number of foreign scholars was of which seventy eight came caine from rom British colonies ninety from the United Unite States and eleven cleven from froth Germany The account says sas Cecil Rhodes Rhodes' es' es intention in establishing the scholarship namely to transmit English standards standards stand stand- ards anTs o of learning and culture throughout the time world of the tongue seems to be carried out I Our belief has always been that Cecil Rhodes' Rhodes intention was to infuse a new spirit into Oxford to shake it out of its its' old grooves to take the conceit conc con con- c cit it from British students' students minds that the they represented represented seated all that was worth while to get up a com corn competition competition petition and at the same time more respect anti and good fellowship among the time stud students of different countries When Cecil Rhodes went to Africa he found plenty plent of scholars that is is- plenty of scholars came down dowl there men with their diplomas but they were green as grass with no practical sense and the first half dozen years they were there they were were busy bisy b unlearning unlearning un un- learning a great many things timings which they had learned at Oxford We Ve think his intention was to modernize and anti make nake more practical the education However we weare arc are not sure that is the fact We Ve only j judge gc b by what every everyone one has seen namely that in a select select se se- lect Icet school where students arc are educated in certain grooves unless there is something to shake them out of f their their propriety they are prone to emerge from those schools with a great deal of classical knowledge in their minds and no practical sense We Ve think it was to cure this in a measure that Cecil Rhodes made the time di disposition position that lie he did It ii n 1 a vast pity that he lie could coul not have lived twenty years ears longer because ho lie was a roo most t useful man to this world and anti had he after he obtained his fortune fortune fortune for for- tune been given twenty years more to enable his own ideas to cr crystallize he lie would have been bee l of vast benefit to the world orld We Vc wish visit that our own country would establish a university establish it as West V st Point and Annapolis An An- are established only on general l lines line to give giro men classical and practical educations and fit them so that when hen they might emerge em rge the from i university there would be something that the world would want that the they could do I |