Word: scholares
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...become a Rhodes Scholar is perhaps the most highly prized honor any student can hope to receive in this country. This is not because the stipend is unusually large--it amounts to 600 pounds, or almost 1700 dollars, per year--but rather because a Rhodes has come to symbolize a brand of all-around excellence which will earmark each individual recipient for the rest of his life...
...actual fact, no candidate is expected to have all these attributes. The various selections committees instead look for some definite quality of distinction, whether in intellect or character. As one recent Scholar put it, "You really don't have to be a varsity athlete and president of the Student Council; you can just be a terribly nice...
...sending the Scholars to Oxford, moreover, Rhodes more or less defeated any imperialistic purpose he may have had. "Oxford tends to make real scholars of people," according to a recent degree-winner there. He proved his point by citing that almost half of the Rhodes Scholars requested permission to spend a third year of study at the University--permission only granted "if in the interests of a Scholar's immediate studies and his future career...
...effect, each Rhodes Scholar is quite free to pursue whatever course of study at Oxford he so desires. About the only restriction is that marriage is forbidden. As one Rhodes Scholar has said, "We have to lead a life of nominal celibacy for two years...
Died. Benjamin Platt Thomas, 54, Lincoln scholar, whose Abraham Lincoln (1952) was generally considered the best modern one-volume biography of the President; by his own hand (revolver) during a period of depression caused by throat cancer; in Springfield...