RHODES HOUSE OPENED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9

RHODES HOUSE OPENED

MEMORIAL AT OXFORD TO GREAT PATRIOT LIBRARY WILL BE UNIQUE British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. Rhodes House, which has been built at Oxford for the Rhodes Trustees, was formally opened yesterday by Sir Otto Beit. He said the inscription around the top of the building was: “This house stands tot ever as a reminder of the name and example of Cecil Rhodes to the Oxford he loved.” It gave a true impression of the intentions of the trustees in erecting it. Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Chancellor of the University, said Cecil Rhodes cared for personal prestige, success and renown only so far as they counted toward the objects he had in view. He was a great patriot, but he realised that the future of the British people lay, not in rivalry and opposition, but in association with other nations. With its great resources and its great capacity the library of Rhodes House will in many respects be unique. In it will be collected all books dealing with history—social, political and economic—and with the literature "of the English-speaking British Dominions and colonies and of the United States.