Rhodes' life of diamonds and dreams His scholarships outlast memory of his misdeeds

From: The Boston Globe | Date: 2/14/1993 | Author: Miles F. Shore

Miles Shore is Bullard Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard

Medical School and superintendent of the Massachusetts

Mental Health Center. He collaborated with Robert I.

Rotberg on "The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of

Power" (Oxford University Press).

Cecil John Rhodes would have been delighted at the news that Bill Clinton is president of the United States, for Rhodes specifically intended his scholarships for young men "who have shown during school days that they have ...

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