RHODES SCHOLARS
ARE AMERICANS A DANGER? LONDON, July 27. To r>*i address to the summer school at Oxford, Sir Francis Wylie recalled mine of tiie earlier comments on the influx of Rhodes scholars to Oxford. Tho \merieaiis were regarded as a great danger to the l Empire, and none could tell what the Greek from Tasmania would be like. Those old anxieties,’ however, were hardly worth recalling, he added.
It was now part of an English public school boy’s training to come in contact with, men from overseas, and with men whose, ways of thinking, speaking, and even dressing, were not his. It made life, .at Oxford richer and more interest-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 7
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