Americans who have been at Oxford as Rhodes Scholars—there are
now over five hundred of them— have long desired to establish fellowships tenable by British students at American universities. The American Oxonian, the admirable little quarterly published by the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars, deals with this interesting proposal in its current issue :— "The fellowships should be assigned to individual Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions rather than to districts or provinces as such. Each University would nominate the fellow to represent it from year to year in accordance with such regulations as may be laid down by the Board of Trustees to which the control of the fellowships is entrusted. The demand for these fellowships and the value of the results likely to follow. from them should first be tested for a period of ten years by awarding fifteen fellowships yearly to fifteen institutions selected for the purpose. If the experiment is tried on this scale, nine fellowships yearly might be assigned to Great Britain and Ireland, two to Canada, two to Australia, and one each to New Zealand and South Africa." Further details of the scheme will be awaited with interest. It would have pleased Cecil Rhodes, who earnestly desired to strengthen the friendship between the English-speaking peoples.
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