THE AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLARS.
A SCATHING CRITICISM.
By Telegraph —Prest Association—Copyright. (Received November 19, 11.5 p.m.)
London, November 19. Dr. G. R. Parkin, organising representative of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, speaking at a meeting of the National Association of State Universities at Oxford, severely criticised the American Rhodes scholars. He said it was a mystery how some of them got to Oxford. Merit alone was apparently not the deciding factor in the making of the appointments.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15155, 20 November 1912, Page 7
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