The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

Rhodes, the great empire builder, by which so many Americans have benefited, have found that because of the enormous increase in the cost of living the amount left by Rhodes for each scholarship is no longer sufficient to cover a students expenses at Oxford. Second, the will OF Cecil Rhodes, which created the scholar ships in 1903, has been changed by an act of the British parliament so as to elim- mate Germany from the triumvirate Of nations which the renowned empire-build- CT sought to tie together through educa- tion at Oxford.
 Hencefortn, only men of American and British colonial universities are eligible for the three-year terms offered by the $l,500-a-year scholarships of the Rhodes trust, at Englands most revered shrine of learning. Hereafter the Rhodes schol- arships, which have brought stream of American youths across the Atlantic ever since their institution in 1993 are exclusively a project for Anglo-American solidarity
 The sixty-three American who reached Oxford in January to begin their three years of study, are the first Rhodes men to come into residence" for over two years. The war not only swept the Rhodes men out of Englands oldest uni Versity town but it suspended the entire machinery of selection throughout the United States and the British empire. It caught up the British colonial scholarship holders first and flung them into the battlefields on seven fronts. Many of them are still on the battlefields, their resting places marked by wooden crosses.
 year after the war broke sout there were only eighteen Colonals among the Rhodes men at Oxford and seventy six Americans. Two year9 after the war broke out the Rhodes trustees postponed ali further selections of scholarship men for the duration and gave leave to all Rhodes men al OXfor3 to enter military service At the time this announcement was made there were eighty-five Rhodes men at Oxford, of whom seventy-one were American and fourteen Colonial A year later the number had dropped to eight of whom two were American and six Conolian Of the two Americans one had returned from a years s ambulance service on the French front and was en- gagged in government work in the Oxford University laboratories, and the other had been rejected for military service or medical grounds. At the time the armistice was signed there were nine Rhodes men "in residence, of whom four had been discharged from the allied armies, 1.-two had been rejected on medl- cal ground and three were engaged on medical studies in order to qualify for medical corps work.
 Shortly after the armistice fas signed, demobilized Rhodes men began flowing back from the battlefields to the silent gray halls of Oxford. Some of them were married, which disqualified them, under the rules laid down by Cecil Rhodes in his will. from resumng their work as scholarship holders. To prevent them from losing their scholarships, the Rhodes trustees made a special ruling permit ting men who had married before the date of the armistiee to continue the stud- ies they had laid down to take up arms.
 $500 NOT ENOUGH
 All of them quickly learned that the st 800 year paid them from the Rhodes estate was not enough. The high cost or living was making it necessary for thenh either to draw on their own resources or to leave oxford. Here was a serious sit