Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite / / Kathleen Schaeper, Thomas J. Schaeper.
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world'...
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