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Redemption by bequest; Rhodes scholarships.(Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships)(Book review)
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The Economist (US)
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May 10, 2008
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IN 1871, at the age of 18, an apparentlyunambitious son of a Hertfordshire vicar left his brother's farm in Natal, SouthAfrica, for the diamond fields of Kimberley. Barely 16 years later, Cecil Rhodes had become a towering figure in finance and mining, a transformation achieved through skill and courage, and, in no small measure, bribery and ruthlessness.
He also managed during this time to spend nine terms as an undergraduate at Oxford, where he was not noted for brains...
