THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLARS A Published Quarterly. Copyright 1927 by the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars. Entered as Second-Class matter at New Haven, Conn., under Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in the United States of America. Subscription Two Dollars a year (Ten Shillings in England). Advertising rates upon application. EDITOR: TUCKER BROOKE, 88 Cold Spring Street, New Haven, Connecticut. CLASS SECRETARIES: '04, G. E. HAMILTON, Keystone View Co., Meadville, Pennsylvania '05, C. R. ALBURN, 1585 Union Trust Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio '07, R. M. SCOON, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey '08, T. J. MOSLEY, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis consin '10, W. A. STUART, Abingdon, Virginia '11, F. F. RUSSELL, 49 Wall St., New York City '13, T. P. LOCKWOOD, 128 Broadway, New York City '14, C. R. CLASON, 241-3 Court Square Bldg., Springfield, Massachu setts '16, W. R. BURWELL, Macedonia, Ohio '17, H. D. NATESTAD, 833 Head St., San Francisco, California. '18, DR. F. B. CARTER, New Haven General Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut 19, B. M. BOSWORTH, 120 Broadway, New York City '20, C. E. NEWTON, U. S. District Atty. Office, Federal Bldg., New York City '21, J. E. NORWOOD, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina '22, F. FLOURNOY, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. '23, W. BLACKBURN, Duke University, Durham, N. C. '24, J. D. BENNETT, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut Oxford Correspondent: MASON HAMMOND, Balliol College President of the Alumni Association: LEONARD W. CRONKHITE, 310 Congress St., Boston, Massachusetts Vol. XIV : Number 4 October 1927 Professor Beaty on the Rhodes Scholars A By FRANK AYDELOTTE GOOD deal of attention has been attracted in American newspapers this summer to a report on the Rhodes Scholars from Professor J. O. Beaty, of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, who was abroad last year on an Albert Kahn travelling fellowship. Describing a visit at the home of Mr. Kahn, where the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, Warden of New College and one of the Rhodes Trustees, was also a guest, Professor Beaty says: “I had interesting talks with all the people whose names I have mentioned as fellow-guests. I shall discuss here but one subject, Rhodes Scholars. Mr. Fisher is a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. He spoke of the problem of investing the funds and the new plan for choosing Rhodes Scholars, a plan which will avoid the necessity of giving two scholarships alike to a state with ten million people and a state with fewer than 100,000 people. He said that the scholars had taken a remarkably high standing in their examinations, that in character they had been admirable, but that they were a failure in that they had not become prominent in America after their return." When this statement was called to his attention, Mr. Fisher promptly repudiated the sentiments attributed to him in the following letter, which was published in the London Times, July 26: "To the Editor of The Times: "Sir, "It has been brought to my notice that certain organs in the United States, on the Continent, and in this country are circulating statements in my name referring to the failure of the Rhodes Scholars. Will you allow me to say that I have neither published nor authorized to be published any statements with reference to the Rhodes Scholars, and that the opinions ascribed to me in the organs to which I refer are almost exactly the reverse of those which I entertain? "Yours, etc., "H. A. L. FISHER." |