Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhodes's Idea. As the Rhodes Scholars assembled for their first big reunion, some of them now greying after 31 years, observers pondered their record. Had they fulfilled Cecil Rhodes's plans? Had they, as a group, showed themselves more able than their U. S. classmates...
Rough, strong-headed Cecil John Rhodes who dug a fortune out of Africa was a strong believer in Anglo-Saxondom. One day he took seriously a conversational suggestion by the late Editor William Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust...
...depressing company. Gentler observers reflect that Oxford does not represent all of England. Its young men are mostly of the gentry. And British gentry are alien to youths from big U. S. cities, not to mention those of the U. S. hinterland whence most Rhodes Scholars come. Cecil Rhodes's will provided that Scholars be chosen two from a State, which has sometimes resulted in thinly populated States sending up indifferent candidates. In 1929 Parliament was persuaded to make a change. Candidates are now chosen from eight districts of six States each...
...Alexander. R. M. Ballen, Cecil Barnes, Jr. W. H. Beach Peter Bellamy, R. I. Bentiey, H. D. G. Burns, W. S. Burton, O. H. P. Cabet, B. M. Clarenden, E. J. Coffey, D. C. Crawford, B. J. Curie, D. S. Dellard, T. R. Dewd, Jr., G. W. Downer, L. V. Eaton, F. P. Fish, A. D. Foster, Jr., Guy Garland, C. M. Garth, M. D. E. Gates, Braman Gibbs, R. H. Gilman, J. C. Gochenour, L. S. Goddard, Robert Grinnell, Russell Grinnell, Jr., A. K. Hartman, W. P. Haskell, Howard Head, J. B. Bickam, W. M. Riggins...
...FIGURE of EIGHT-Cecil Waye- Kinsey ($2). Central American intrigue in London leads to four poison murders. THE NIGHT...