Editing Cecil Rhodes (section)

=== Rhodes Scholarship ===
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[[File:Rhodes House Oxford 20040909.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rhodes House]], Oxford, in 2004.]]
In his last will, he provided for the establishment of the [[Rhodes Scholarship]]. Over the course of the previous half-century, governments, universities and individuals in the settler colonies had been establishing travelling scholarships for this purpose.  The Rhodes awards fit the established pattern.{{sfn|Pietsch|2011|pp=723–39}} The scholarship enabled male students from [[Territorial evolution of the British Empire|territories under British rule or formerly under British rule]] and from Germany to study at Rhodes's alma mater, the University of Oxford. Rhodes' aims were to promote leadership marked by public spirit and good character, and to "render war impossible" by promoting friendship between the great powers.{{sfn|Rhodes|1902|pp=23–45}}<ref>Philip Ziegler, ''Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships'' (Yale UP, 2008) [https://networks.h-net.org/node/14281/reviews/16186/garner-ziegler-legacy-cecil-rhodes-rhodes-trust-and-rhodes-scholarships online review]</ref>