Kudos (Cont'd)

The will of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) generously provided two Oxford scholarships every three years for boys from every U. S. State.* In 1902, when the will was executed, there were 45 States. Scholarships were added for Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912). In 1929, Rhodes Scholar Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. executor of the Rhodes Trust, knocked on the door of Parliament and had the Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee Aydelotte was fittingly rewarded for this and other Rhodes services when Oxford University made him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law.

Other 1937 kudos bestowed last week:

Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)

Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D.

Brown University (Providence, R. I.)

Charles Evans Hughes Jr. LL.D.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. LL.D.

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston LL.D.

Poet Robert Frost Litt.D.

University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.)

Charles Phelps Taft II (in absentia) LL.D.

Smith College (Northampton, Mass.)

Katharine Cornell L.H.D.

Mrs. Dwight Morrow ('96) L.H.D.

Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)

Assistant Secretary of State

Francis Howes Sayre ('09) LL.D.

*According to his biographer, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Rhodes thought there were still only 13.

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