Pleasant Grove Review | 1937-06-18 | Page 3 | Cecil Rhodes Knew Little about America

Cecil Rhodes Knew Little Aboout America The fact that there are today more Rhodes scholars from the United States at Oxford than from all the British dominions put together, to-gether, is due to an extraordinary error on the part of Cecil Rhodes. "He believed there were still only the original thirteen states in the Union of America," says Sarah Gertrude Millin in her biography bi-ography of Rhodes. "Nor did the solicitor who drew up his will, know better." In assigning his scholarships, Rhodes alloted so many for each state and colony and a complimentary compli-mentary few for Germany. Kansas Kan-sas City Star.