News and Views: An African-American Woman From Macalester College Is Among This Year's Rhodes Scholars

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: January 31, 1998 | Copyright information

News and views: An African-American Woman From Macalester College Is Among This Year's Rhodes Scholars

British industrialist Cecil J. Rhodes looked to the creation of a society of the best and brightest young leaders from all over the English-speaking world. This elite group would be brought together to study at Oxford University. Early versions of Rhodes' will called for establishing a "Secret Society, the true aim and object thereof shall be the extension of British rule throughout the world...and the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British ...

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