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Rhodes scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford. The Rhodes Trust was established by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa...
...intergenerational fame at the same time. We remember Alfred Nobel much more for the prestigious prizes endowed by his estate than for his invention of that deadly staple of modern armies, TNT. Many more people are aware of Rhodes Scholarships than the career of the brilliant imperialist and racist Cecil Rhodes, who founded them with the profits from his African diamond mines. And in the course of just a decade, Bill Gates has managed to transform his image from visionary but cutthroat capitalist to transcendent philanthropist, by the efforts of his $32 billion foundation to tackle disease and poverty...
...during the climax of the play. All in all, though, the poise of the leading actors—who almost always manage to speak with the right balance of dandified aplomb and thoughtful sincerity—and the excellent support provided by characters like Cecil Graham (Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09), make the production a thoroughly beguiling one. Despite some imperfections, the cast and crew do remarkable justice to Oscar Wilde’s particular manner of laying humans’ vices bare, one quotable line at a time...
ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ROBERT CECIL Ever heard the saying "Bob's your uncle"? It means "no problem" and refers to Cecil, a Victorian Prime Minister who named Balfour, his nephew, to a series of Cabinet posts...
...fashionable among the villains in fantasy films. They are not very menacing or scary and neither are the threats they pose to Jack and his pals. There's also a whole thing with a giant squid that may put such ancients who attend the senior matinees in mind of Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (1942). And that says nothing of the water wheel that comes loose from its mooring at an old mill and rumbles across the countryside, quite like the ferris wheel that rolled out of an amusement park in Steven Spielberg's 1941 to similarly...