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...Drayton graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in History and Science, and began the Ph.D. program in History at Yale University in September 1986. The Rhodes award provides a full scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University in England...
Including Drayton, 12 Harvard students and graduates have won the prestigious award this year. That number breaks the previous record for any American college, which Harvard...
...Drayton, who is Yale's only Rhodes Scholar this year, laughed and said "they don't even want to claim me. They'd have preferred an undergrad...
...Drayton said he had some reservations about the scholarship because of its origin. He was active in the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee as an undergraduate, said he was among the students who built the plywood Ivory Tower that formed the centerpiece of Harvard Yard's "shantytown" in the spring...
...just a little bit ambivalent. I'm really grateful for the opportunity the Rhodes scholarship committee is giving me to start work on my dissertation in England, but I am not without some reservations in terms of my sense of where Mr. Rhodes' money came from," Drayton said...