Education: More Room in the Rhodes

Since it was originated in 1902, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust has selected only one U.S. Negro as a Rhodes scholar* and has never granted a scholarship to a student in a Negro college. Last week came word of a change in policy. Beginning next term, Tennessee's Fisk University will become the first U.S. Negro college to take part in the Rhodes scholarships.

* Philadelphia's Alain leRoy Locke, Harvard 1907, who finished his three-year Oxford studies in 1910, later became a professor of philosophy at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, died ast year.

Quotes of the Day »

Get & Share
JOE LIEBERMAN, a Senator from Connecticut, on his refusal to support a health care reform bill that includes a public option
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

Get & Share
JOE LIEBERMAN, a Senator from Connecticut, on his refusal to support a health care reform bill that includes a public option

Stay Connected with TIME.com