Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Author: Thomas J. Schaeper

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0857453696

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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's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.

The American Oxonian
The American Oxonian

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Vol. for 1934- include Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars and other Oxonians (called 1934-36, Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars).

Legacy
Legacy

Author: Philip Ziegler

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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To be chosen as a Rhodes Scholar is to join the company of a highly select group: former scholars include presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, archbishops, authors, judges, and other important figures. Over 7,000 individuals have received the world's most prestigious scholarship in the century since Cecil John Rhodes, the British-born founder of the De Beers diamond company, established through his will the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes scholarships. This fascinating history traces the evolution of the Trust and its scholarship program from Rhodes's vision in 1902 to the new world of the twenty-first century. Rhodes specified the criteria for selecting scholars, stipulating public service as their highest aim. An avowed imperialist, he dreamed of a white masculine Anglo-Saxon hegemony that would lead to world peace and prosperity. The book explores how the organization changed after the Empire faded and how Rhodes's vision has been made relevant today, particularly through the vital contributions of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in South Africa. Prominent American Rhodes Scholars include: J. William Fulbright - Robert Penn Warren - Bill Bradley - Wesley Clark - Bill Clinton - Strobe Talbott - David Souter - George Stephanopoulos

Going to College in the Sixties
Going to College in the Sixties

Author: John R. Thelin

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1421426811

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The 1960s was the most transformative decade in the history of American higher education—but not for the reasons you might think. Picture going to college in the sixties: the protests and marches, the teach-ins and sit-ins, the drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll—hip, electric, psychedelic. Not so fast, says bestselling historian John R. Thelin. Even at radicalized campuses, volatile student demonstrations coexisted with the "business as usual" of a flagship state university: athletics, fraternities and sororities, and student government. In Going to College in the Sixties, Thelin reinterprets the campus world shaped during one of the most dramatic decades in American history. Reconstructing all phases of the college experience, Thelin explores how students competed for admission, paid for college in an era before Pell Grants, dealt with crowded classes and dormitories, voiced concerns about the curriculum, grappled with new tensions in big-time college sports, and overcame discrimination. Thelin augments his anecdotal experience with a survey of landmark state and federal policies and programs shaping higher education, a chronological look at media coverage of college campuses over the course of the decade, and an account of institutional changes in terms of curricula and administration. Combining student memoirs, campus publications, oral histories, and newsreels, along with archival sources and institutional records, the book goes beyond facile stereotypes about going to school in the sixties. Grounded in social and political history, with a scope that will appeal both to a new generation of scholars and to alumni of the era, this engaging book allows readers to consider "going to college" in both the past and the present.

Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Author: Thomas J. Schaeper

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1845457218

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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's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.

First In His Class
First In His Class

Author: David Maraniss

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-30

Total Pages: 975

ISBN-13: 1439128359

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Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.

Bound in Wedlock
Bound in Wedlock

Author: Tera W. Hunter

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0674979249

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Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother

The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University
The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University

Author: Charles L. Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781332098996

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Excerpt from The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University: A Manual of Information What appears in the following pages was gathered, for the most part, during a seven weeks' visit at Oxford, England, in the summer of 1903 for the purpose of finding out all I could in that time about the famous University located there. In my search for information I was treated with the utmost courtesy by the many persons - professors, undergraduates and citizens - to whom I made known the object of my visit. My thanks are especially due Mr. J. Gilbert Wiblin, B. A. of Jesus College for many kindly suggestions and for an account of the more important doings at Oxford in recent months. Like all others who desire to become acquainted with Oxford University, I availed myself also of the indispensable help afforded by such books as Alden's "Guide to Oxford," Wells's "Oxford and Its Colleges," Brodrick's "History of the University of Oxford," Gardner's "Oxford at the Cross Roads," Andrew Lang's "Oxford - Historical and Picturesque Notes," Corbin's "An American at Oxford," Dyer's "Oxford as It Is," "The Student's Handbook to Oxford University," "The University Calendar" and "The Examination Statutes." It would, of course, be presumptuous for me to suppose that in this pamphlet there are no errors of any kind; because the "Oxford System," being so anomalous, is very puzzling to us Americans and because the more than twenty colleges differ from one another in many respects though having much in common. This, however, may be said with truth, that the author of this pamphlet has tried to make it a manual of reliable information for the use of those American youth who may aspire to become Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.