# Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships

Author: Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick); Hornbeck, Stanley Kuhl, 1883-1966

Genre: Category: History - Schools & Universities

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70621

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Oxford+and+the+Rhodes+Scholarships+Scholz&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Cecil Rhodes left to the world a Will whose provisions have caused more comment than those of any other Will of modern times. A simple paraphrase of its chief provision would be ‘I Cecil John Rhodes leave £2,000,000 for the foundation of between 150 and 200 perpetual scholarships at Oxford University.’ To stop, however, with such a summary is to know nothing of the real character of the Will. Aside from being a legal document disposing of property, the Will is an excellent commentary upon Rhodes’s life and thought and a record of certain of his conclusions. Its value to our present subject, however, is rather prospective than retrospective. Rhodes provided not _only_ the money for the fou...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Book I, _or_ (_b_) a portion of a prescribed Greek, French, or German](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Book III. The whole, excluding propositions 2, 4-10, 13, 23, 24, 26-29.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/oxford-and-the-rhodes-scholarships-70621/chapters/1/index.md)