Education: Rhodes Riches

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Rhodes Riches

Since their foundation 23 years ago, the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford for U. S. students have increased—due to wise investment—from £300 to £350 and finally to £400 (12,000) (TIME, Oct. 5). The Rhodes trustees have also, lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a Rhodes House at Oxford, to form an annex to the Bodleian Library and a centre for students of politics in the English-speaking world and for African students. Last week at the annual Rhodes dinner Trustee Sir Otto Beit announced still another Rhodes innovation—a memorial lectureship of £500 per annum to bring to Oxford for a term each year and for not less than two lectures a foreign man or woman "of pre-eminent distinction" in public life or business, in science, scholarship or letters—preferably from the New World. Trustee Sir Otto announced the resignation of Trustee Rudyard Kipling, the appointment of Trustee Stanley Baldwin.