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Rhodes scholarship

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Rhodes scholarship

Grant to attend the University of Oxford. The program was established in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes. Until 1976, candidates had to be unmarried male residents in a Commonwealth country, the U.S., or South Africa. In 1976 women were accepted. Two candidates each year are also chosen from Germany. The scholarships, which are highly competitive, are usually for two years.



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He went to Stanford on a football scholarship and there became class president before winning a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford.
Locke, a Harvard graduate in 1907 and the first African-American to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship, was one of the most outstanding black intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Childhood has in some serious way been stripped of its wonderful aimlessness, of shapeless, formless, and seemingly endless days and nights spent whiling away the time doing nothing that will help you get a Rhodes Scholarship or first-round venture capital for a start-up.
 
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