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re: Refreshing: Rhodes College statement on ACB

Posted on 9/22/20 at 2:55 pm to
Posted by Zach
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Posted on 9/22/20 at 2:55 pm to
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But, it was named after Peyton Rhodes, who served as a professor and president at Southwestern for 50 years, not Cecil Rhodes, who colonized the poor people in Africa and is the namesake of the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.


Thanks, I didn't know that. But I'll bet the discussion on the name change included the implication of a 'Rhodes Scholarship.'
Posted by anc
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 9/22/20 at 3:07 pm to
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Thanks, I didn't know that. But I'll bet the discussion on the name change included the implication of a 'Rhodes Scholarship.'



They certainly aren't spending a lot of money correcting those assumptions!

Yes, Rhodes is the campus in Midtown that looks like castles.



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