Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-10
In Memory of
WA-PEIrIO

before he died, had made him a multi
millionaire, not in dollars, but il
pounds sterling. His last will was
dated January /, 1899 But the two
documents are essentially alike in sen
tlment. They both embody in ex
press terms what was ever the master
thought of this master mind, the ne
cessity for promoting the reunion OF
the English speaking race. Mr.
Rhodes will appoints some well
known group of seven of his friends
as general executors of his estate.
This group is further charged to un-
dertake the duty as acting trustees
for the educational endowmen fund
which will provoke the liveliest dis
cussion and excite the keenest inter
est throughout both the United States
and the British Empire, for both com
munities share in the benefit of Mr..
Rhodes bequest. Mr.. Rhodes was a
graduate of Oxford and student at
Orlel college. to which, by the way,
he has left special bequest of $780,
600 He has made Oxford university,
in whose glories the American de-
scendents CT it's founders share
equally with those who still inhabit
the old country, the center OF his edu-
catlonal scheme, and he has left a
sum, which may be roughly capitaliz-
ed as representing $10,000000 for the
foundation of Anglo-American scholar
ships, tenable at Oxford for three
years. Mr. Rhodes, it will be remem-
bered. was so impressed with the val
lie OF university education that after
he had hnnn fnnpnnlln1 no !;
course at Oxford by i'll health, which
rendered it impossible for him to win
ter in England, he returned every sum-
mer from South Africa, in order to
complete his university career. To
his thinking, the university better
than any other institution, naturally af-i
fords vivifying center of race unity
1t is free from all political complica-
tons, and residential university.
with the old traditions of Oxford,
seemed to him the best fitted for the
he had in view When | dis
cussed with him the question of the
choice OF the university which should
be selected as this race center, the re-
spective claims of Oxford and Cam
bridge, or some American university
We're freely discussed That Mr.
Rhodes settled the question in favor
OF Oxford was due to his devotion to
his old university, and if these fell
lowships had to be tenable to any one
center it would be difficult to cavil at
his choice. Mr.. Rhodes, therefore,
having selected Oxford as his race
center, from his love of his old alma
mater has drawn up broad outline
Of the general conditions uDon which |
these scholarships should be awarded
The central principle OF his scheme is
hat every English speaking colony
and state and territory in the Ameri- |
can union should be offered a scholar
ship of the value of 81 500 year, ten
able for three years at Oxford. By
his means Mr.. Rhodes believed it'll
would be possible to make Oxford the
center of the spirit of race unity,
where students from every part of the
English speaking world would meet
IN common ground, in the most fam
JUS of the old universities. What will
'esult in the future presence of Amer
can and colonials in what has so long,
been one of the most conservative and
Anglican centers of Great Britain theI
uture must decide. The influx of SO
much American and colonial blood
nay have very important conse-
luences, at which some of the old
)xonians would stand aghast. Hav-
ng decided that each state or colonial
init should have one scholarship al
owed to it every year, Mr.. Rhodes
will proceeds to define the terms upon
which these scholarships should be al