Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-17

greatest educational centers on the
globe.
Now comes Mr.. Cecil Rhodes and
by bequest provides for a far
reaching system of international
scholarships at Oxford university.
Besides colonial scholarships for the
various dependencies of the British
empire, he makes provision for i've
scholarships to be filled by stu
dents of German birth on nomina-
ton OF the German emperor, and
two scholarships to each Of the
present states and territories Of the
United States. This gift is abso-
Iutely unique among all the gifts
recorded in history.
Regarding the American scholar
ships Mr.. Rhodes is reported as
having said:
"I desire TO encourage and foster
an appreciation of the advantages
which, I implicitly believe. viii re-
suit from a union of the English
speaking peoples throughout the
world, and to encourage in the stu
dents from the United States who
will benefit by these scholarships an
attachment to the country from
which they have sprung; but, with
out, I hope. Withdrawing them or
their sympathies from the land Of
their adoption or BIRTH"
Mr.. w. T. Stead, one of the great
est admirers and most devoted
friends of Mr.. Rhodes. comments
thus concerning the matter:
r~fIr fu IN aT~-
cry respect worthy of its author.
With the exception Of some family
estates in this country, the whole OF
, which are left TO his own relatives,
Mr.. Rhodes has dedicated his wealth
in diamond and gold mines to public
uses. It's disposal is dictated BY what
was ever the dominating principle
Of his life.
What renders this will of excep-
tional interest to Americans Is the
fact that II reveals for the first time.
under his hand and seal. that he was
no mere British imperialist, but that
he was essentially a citizen OF the
United States. of the Engiish-speak-
ing world.
THE principle of his scheme is that
every English-speaking colony and
every state and territory in the
American republic shall be offered
scholarship of the value of $500
year for three years. BY this means
Mr.. Rhodes believed IT would be pos
sible to make oxford the center OF
the spirit of race unity, where stu
dents from every part of the English
speaking world would meet on COM
mon ground, in the most famous OF
the old universities.
What will result in the future
presence Of Americans and colonials
\ in what has so long been one Of the
most conservative and Anglican CEN
tiers Of Great Britain the future must
decide The influx of so much Amer
lean and colonial blood may have
very important consequences, at
which some Of the old Oxonians
would stand aghast."
1t is not to much to say that this
ibeouest of the South African dia-
mond king and colonial statesman is
an international event second in i'm
portance to nothing that has hap
pened in recent years, Its far
reaching consequences cannot be
easily foreseen nor OYerstated.
Many a purblind worshiper Of
Mammon-made purblind by Mann
man worship-will doubtless con-
slider the whole scheme as visionary
and foolish. But whatever may
have been his defects, Mr.. Rhodes
was never deficient in intelligence;
no more astute man has lived in
our day. He knew the history of
nations and the power of education
in molding and coloring the desti-
ny of nations. He doubtless remem-
bered that when England wished to
insure her domination in Normandy
she founded the university of Caen
in 1896. He was not ignorant Of
how Spain, established the univer-
sity of Douay in 1872 in order to
consolidate the Netherlands. He
knew perfectly well that the uni
versity of Berlin was founded in
1910 to retrieve the defeat, of Ger
many at Jena and that the universe
ty Of StrasbOurg was reconstructed
in 1870 to confirm the victory of Sc
dan. He was obliged TO have known
how his own alma mater. Oxford
university. has always sustained
Toryism. He must have known,
what every well-informed person
knows. that ell the nations of Eu-
rope. for the solution of both inter-
. nal or external problems have for
centuries had recourse to that most
powerful instrument. great seat Of
learning There Europe FORCES it's
thunderbolts and Cecil Rhodes knew
the supreme value Of such forces.
Our worshipers of Mammon have
no such knowledge; outside know
ing how to get and keep dollars
they know precious little of any
thing.
When our mOney-getters are stood
alongside these far-seeing money
givers the picture is very striking
and instructive. A man of plethoric
purse and atrophied heart looks
rather small in the company Of