Rhodes Scholarships
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Rhodes Scholarships, founded by Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902), British statesmen and South African empire builder. He left the bulk of his £6,000,000 fortune to provide scholarships to Oxford University for men students from the British colonies, the U.S., and Germany. The first candidates were selected in 1903 and, like subsequent winners, were judged on the basis of previous college records, including scholarship, character, and leadership in athletics and other activities. The scholarships for German students were cancelled during World War I and discontinued permanently during World War II. U.S. and British scholarships were temporarily suspended during the two wars. The U.S. receives 32 scholarships, restricted to men until women were included in 1976. Among the American literary figures who have received Rhodes Scholarships are Christopher Morley, J.C. Ransom, R.P. Warren, Paul Engle, and R.P.T. Coffin.
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Sarajevo blues.(The View From Here)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; I left Sarajevo in the winter of 1992, a couple of months...feeling intensely guilty for not being in Sarajevo, I needed to imagine fully what it was...containing Semezdin Mehmedinovid's Sarajevo Blues. Semezdin was a poet and a friend...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/20/1993; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/9/1995; ; 700+ words
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Sarajevo Blues
Magazine article from: Poetry; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; I left Sarajevo in the winter of 1992, a couple of months...feeling intensely guilty for not being in Sarajevo, I needed to imagine fully what it was...containing Semezdin Mehmedinovic's Sarajevo Blues. Semezdin was a poet and a friend...
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Sarajevo, a winter wonderland destroyed. (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina) (Column)
Magazine article from: The Sporting News; 2/14/1994; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Forward; 8/15/2003; ; 700+ words
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Sarajevo Recalls 1984 Olympic Games
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/10/2004; ; 700+ words
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Serbs in Sarajevo Must Decide Whether or Not to Stay
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 12/27/1995; 700+ words
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Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 6/11/1994; 700+ words
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Sarajevo Looks to The Future
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/22/1994; ; 700+ words
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Sarajevo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Sarajevo, assassination in (1914)
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
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Radovan Karadzic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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