RHODES SCHOLARS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 June 1924, Page 3

RHODES SCHOLARS

OXFORD IDEALS. AN AMERICAN, VIEW. ! 3X CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT LONDON. Juno 13. At a recent meeting of the Rhodes Scholars Trust, Mr. Rudytml Kipling delivered- a speech dealing with the aims of the founders for drawing men from different countries into touch with each other. Considerable discussion has now arisen over the speecli delivered at Oxford by Mr. Green, an American Rhodes scholar, in reply to Mr. Kipling, in which he disclosed that American scholars are not responsive to Rhodes ideals. He declared that Oxford had not been an Elysium. “It has only brought death to 'cur dreams of romance and hopes. Its grey unbeautiful buildings are merely' oldfashioned, and often prisons to the soul and -body. If the late Air. Rhodes, in founding the scholarships, meant us to become apostles of a creed for which Mr. Kipling laboured so long, we must deny his hopes. Oxford, England and Europe only makes the American Rhodes scholar love America more, and become more American daily. We are sick of handshaking across the seas. We will go home without regrets and eagerly to the nation we know and understand, hoping some of us will amount to something if Oxford’s life and idleness has not impaired our energies.—Sydney Sun Cables.