The American Oxonian, Volume 14Association of American Rhodes Scholars, 1927 - Rhodes scholarships Vol. for 1934- include Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars and other Oxonians (called 1934-36, Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars). |
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... Committees of Selection . About half of all the Rhodes Scholars come from the United States , the other half come from the British Domin- ions , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Jamaica , Ber- muda , and Newfoundland ...
... Committees of Selection . About half of all the Rhodes Scholars come from the United States , the other half come from the British Domin- ions , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Jamaica , Ber- muda , and Newfoundland ...
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... Committee of Selection consisted of F. P. Keppel , President of the Carnegie Corporation , Chairman , L. C. Hull , Jr. , Michigan and Brasenose , '07 , F. F. Russell , New York and Brasenose , '11 , W. C. Davison , New York and Merton ...
... Committee of Selection consisted of F. P. Keppel , President of the Carnegie Corporation , Chairman , L. C. Hull , Jr. , Michigan and Brasenose , '07 , F. F. Russell , New York and Brasenose , '11 , W. C. Davison , New York and Merton ...
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... Committee . As signments will be made by the Committee after consideration of the sub jects chosen by the Fellows . " For application blanks , and full information , address : Carl J. Friedrich American German Student Exchange , Inc ...
... Committee . As signments will be made by the Committee after consideration of the sub jects chosen by the Fellows . " For application blanks , and full information , address : Carl J. Friedrich American German Student Exchange , Inc ...
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... committee of selection , for the account of these committees with which his paper closes is possibly the most ... committee , he says , is " composed generally of leading educational dignitaries or high public officials , " and all their ...
... committee of selection , for the account of these committees with which his paper closes is possibly the most ... committee , he says , is " composed generally of leading educational dignitaries or high public officials , " and all their ...
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... committees , themselves . Their liabilities were clear and moun- tainous , their assets as yet quite undetermined . They were , with very few exceptions , simply a scared , serious , diffident group . So it cer- tainly was in 1904 , and ...
... committees , themselves . Their liabilities were clear and moun- tainous , their assets as yet quite undetermined . They were , with very few exceptions , simply a scared , serious , diffident group . So it cer- tainly was in 1904 , and ...
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Page 41 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? —-nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen.
Page 84 - ... qualities of manhood truth courage devotion to duty sympathy for and protection of the weak kindliness unselfishness and fellowship and (iv) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...
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Page 186 - Student Advisers Upon entrance, each student in the College of Letters and Science is assigned to a member of the Faculty who acts as his adviser during the freshman and sophomore years. At the beginning of the junior year, when the student has selected his major study, a member of the department in which his major is chosen becomes his adviser. Each semester, the student is required to consult his adviser concerning the choice of studies and...
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