RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 16 June 1924, Page 9

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS

AIMS OF THE FOUNDERS.

By Gable—Association —Copyright. LONDON, June 13.

At a recent meeting of the Rhodes Scholars Trust Air Rudyard Kipling delivered a speech dealing with the aims of the founders in drawing men from different countries into touch with each other. Considerable discussion has now arisen over the speech delivered at Oxford by Air Green, au American Rhodes Scholar, in reply’ to Air Kipling, in which he disclosed that the American scholars are not responsive to the Rhodes ideal. He declared that Oxford had not been an elysium. “It has only brought death to our dreams of romance and hopes. Its grey, unbeautiful buildings are merely oldfashioned and are often prisons to the soul and body. If Air Cecil Rhodes, in founding the scholarships, meant us to become apostles of the creed for which Mr Kipling has laboured so long, we must deny his hopes. Oxford and England and Europe only makes ? the American Rhodes scholars love America the more, and become more American daily.. AVe are sick of handshaking across the seas AVe will go home without regrets and eagerly to a nation we know 7 and - understand, hoping some of us will amount to something if Oxford’s life and idleness ha? not impaired our energies.”