Download or read book Oxford written by Herman S. Frey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodes Scholars Oxford and the Creation of an American Elite written by Thomas J. Schaeper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.
Download or read book Oxford of Today written by Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodes Scholars Oxford and the Creation of an American Elite written by Thomas J. Schaeper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.
Download or read book Oxford of Today written by Laurence a Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oxford of Today: A Manual for Prospective Rhodes Scholars The chief aim of this book is to present in a concise, accurate and readable form the more important facts about Oxford University which are of interest particularly to prospective Rhodes Scholars and generally to the academical public. It is in a measure a descendant of a smaller volume written and compiled in 1907 by two American Rhodes Scholars, R. F. Scholz and S. K. Hornbeck, and entitled, Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships. At that time the Rhodes Scholarships had been in operation but three years. Messrs. Scholz and Hornbeck creditably performed a valuable service in thus making available to prospective American students much information about the University which had been theretofore obtainable only with difficulty, if at all. Their book was published by the Oxford University Press in an edition long since exhausted. Another volume which formerly set forth many of the facts herein presented was the Oxford University Handbook, a semi-official publication issued from time to time by the Oxford University Press. The last edition (1914) is now out of print. Since 1914 many changes have occurred at Oxford. To name but two: Greek is no longer an absolute requirement for admission; and women students (previously admitted only to lectures and examinations) have now full University privileges and may receive degrees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Rhodes Scholarships written by Sir Geo Parkin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford of Today a Manual for Prospective Rhodes Scholars Ed for the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars written by Laurence Alden Crosby and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Oxford written by Marilyn Yurdan and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford of Today a Manual for Prospective Rhodes Scholars Ed for the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars written by Frank Aydelotte and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships written by Prosser Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University written by Charles L. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University: A Manual of Information What appears in the following pages was gathered, for the most part, during a seven weeks' visit at Oxford, England, in the summer of 1903 for the purpose of finding out all I could in that time about the famous University located there. In my search for information I was treated with the utmost courtesy by the many persons - professors, undergraduates and citizens - to whom I made known the object of my visit. My thanks are especially due Mr. J. Gilbert Wiblin, B. A. of Jesus College for many kindly suggestions and for an account of the more important doings at Oxford in recent months. Like all others who desire to become acquainted with Oxford University, I availed myself also of the indispensable help afforded by such books as Alden's "Guide to Oxford," Wells's "Oxford and Its Colleges," Brodrick's "History of the University of Oxford," Gardner's "Oxford at the Cross Roads," Andrew Lang's "Oxford - Historical and Picturesque Notes," Corbin's "An American at Oxford," Dyer's "Oxford as It Is," "The Student's Handbook to Oxford University," "The University Calendar" and "The Examination Statutes." It would, of course, be presumptuous for me to suppose that in this pamphlet there are no errors of any kind; because the "Oxford System," being so anomalous, is very puzzling to us Americans and because the more than twenty colleges differ from one another in many respects though having much in common. This, however, may be said with truth, that the author of this pamphlet has tried to make it a manual of reliable information for the use of those American youth who may aspire to become Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships written by R. F. Scholz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships: With List of Rhodes Scholars and Other Information Complete to the End of January, 1907 Our purpose to compile at once a short record and a working handbook has made our task largely that of selection and arrangement. We have drawn freely for information upon many sources. Thus, the first chapter is based almost entirely upon facts set forth in Mr. W. T. Stead's Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes; the second chapter is merely an arrangement from a copy of Rhodes's Will; the third rests upon information obtained from Dr. Parkin's written statements, especially from an article in the London Times of October 13, 1904, and from an address before the Royal Colonial Institute (December, 1904), and from answers which have been given to direct questions; the fourth is based on published 'Memoranda' of the Rhodes Trust; and the sixth represents a condensation or rearrangement, with some personal comment, of information from the official publications of the University of Oxford (see also Bibliography, p. 169). The fifth and the seventh may be said to have more of the personal colouring, but they, too, represent impressions gained from various reading and comparison of opinions, as well as of those of personal experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book OXFORD OF TODAY A MANUAL FOR P written by Laurence Alden Crosby and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The American Rhodes Scholarships written by Frank Aydelotte and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships written by Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships" by Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, R. F. Scholz. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
