RHODES TRUST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 8

RHODES TRUST.

IDEALS OF FOUNDER. AMERICANS NOT RESPONSIVE. LONDON, June 13. At a recent meeting of the Rhodes Scholars Trust, Mr Rudyard Kipling delivered a speech dealing with the aims of the founder for drawing men of different countries into touch. A considerable discussion has now arisen over a speech delivered at Oxford by Mr Green, an American Rhodes scholar, in reply to Mr Kipling, in which it was disclosed that American scholars are not responsive to the late Cecil Rhodes’s ideals. He declared that Oxford had not been elyaium. “It has only brought death to our dreams of romance and hopes. * Its grey, unbeautiful buildings are merely old-faehioned, and often prisons for soul and body. If Cecil Rhodes, in founding the scholarships, meant Us to become apostles of the creed for which Mr Kipling has laboured eo long; we must deny his hopes.. Oxford, England, and Europe only make the American Rhodes scholars love America more, and become more American daily. Wo are sick of handshaking across the seas. We rfo home without regret and eagerly to the nation we kno»r and understand, hdping 'that some of us will amount to oomething, if Oxford's life of- idleness has ~->t impaired onr energies."