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Show The Rhodes Scholarships THE lofty underlying thought of Cecil Rhodes, when he provided scholarships for a number num-ber of American students at Oxford, was doubtless real'y to institute a closer walk between be-tween the people of the United Kingdom and of the United States. Knowing, as he did, how immensely im-mensely the graduates of a great university can, in the course of a few years, influence a great country; he doubtless believed that could English and American students associate for some years in the famous Oxford University and then go their respective ways out Into the world, their influence qyld continuously be exerted in similar chan-lSjfprthe chan-lSjfprthe good of both countries. ) The eftujjiso far, does not seem to be an un- olpno waiter saythptten per cent of the Amer-jlpanSparnotpjde Amer-jlpanSparnotpjde oheuff that ever could 1y((nn8Ucqess,Metlaernjtheilrstiudyles or In the anies, played, pt JtiiejvniYers)ityVi)Thetthey(ifIock p theseles, andooj seek, to assimilate twUh ;5yJ$e anxfflus, tybe friendly, have set English jW.ayfWicft.tecanuot change to saye theh lives. , T,Jien, , Ajneriqaq ( tstudents ( going rrom all t sections na.WPWP W thpir l0C.?eftil5eB ajpng, and of fen, rq, , f ar from assimilating with TfiVk ioth8r i ' iiiimiiii M.iui.ji j ,nMPft9U,JWB h,ad spmp Americans around him jgbffm he was much attached to, ( and that, doubtless doubt-less is what first gave him the thought of bringing J)e mtWZW toery uniting thein one school. But he did not stop to take into account that the Americans he met were men of the world 'who had outgrown the natural stlltiness of ttie unHergra'cluat'eand who had' ldarhe'd by exiierl-'eiice'to exiierl-'eiice'to unlearn their early fobllshness. ' ' 14 " But it Is a sliame that any students going frOm the United States' should lack In native manliness, ''or in' those1 qualities which enable men of all decrees de-crees to asslmllatd With tha men around them. 1 'Those "who go should be selected hy the teach-t'dre teach-t'dre they have been under at home. i i l Suppose the namesiofione hundred students just graduated from oneof our great) universities owere submitted to the faculty of (that university llwlthar iequest to selecb ten fijomi tho -number to fgoto"Oxf6rd,ihow would i they .proceed;? t Woujd itheyihot take,iname-ibyinam'e,f)and!(Wlth each judge HKiaHHHPJHKHHHi character as well as the capacity to acquire knowledge? Would not the side remarks be something some-thing like these! ' jp, "James is a clever student, but envious aria suspicious, and has a great faculty of making ene- fm mles." "Smith is a scholarly boy but lacks pluck, with the first reverse he would go off and cry." "Rogers stumbles sometimes in his studies, but if there is any game that English boys play, he would be captain of the team In a month." "Henshaw is all right; with the first holidays he would go home with a peer's son, capture the peer's son's mother, and be making love to the peer's son's sister the first day." "Lewis will do. He will be up with any of them in the books, and then if any of them tried to snub him, he would laugh them out of It, or if that would not do he would lick them into shape!" "Walker will not do. He would win every trick in scholarship, but he would be as much alone as was Robinson Crusoe on the island." "We do not know about Grady. He has the brains all right, but he would be making cartoons of the head professors on the wall the first week, and if there should be a wild Irish student in the schoo1, the two together would have a goat tied to the bell in the tower the second Sunday night." The ten they would finally nelect would fill the bill. But we have our doubts about the success of the experiment. It would have been wiser to have sent them at j sixteen and from the preliminary schools select the few for Oxford. |