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- From: sals@llewella.uchicago.edu (red-head fancier)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: William Jefferson Blythe Clinton's education
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.011402.14987@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:14:02 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.150017.19821@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.150017.19821@husc3.harvard.edu> writes:
- >>
- > Third, Rhodes Scholarships are very competitive, and by no means
- > were they awarded frivolously, just to help people avoid the draft.
- > Now, I don't deny that some of the recipients thought that draft
- > avoidance was a side benefit of Rhodes Scholarships. But that was
- > *not* the reason they were awarded. Rhodes Scholarships generally
- > go to people who show outstanding promise in their chosen fields;
- > many, many straight-A students are rejected. In fact, I believe
- > the total number awarded each year is in the double digits only.
- >
- I beleive there are 32 given in the US plus a few in germany and other
- countries.
- > Fifth -- and I am less sure about this point, unlike the others,
- > so please correct me if I am wrong -- Rhodes scholars don't get
- > a separate degree for their time at Oxford. It's kind of like
- > a two-year (?) long research project. I have never heard anywhere
- > that Bill Clinton did not finish whatever it was he was studying,
- > but on the other hand I have also never heard definitively that
- > he *did* finish either, so I can't make any final pronouncements on
- > this one.
- Rhodes scholars usually do get a degree for their three years at Oxford.
- The degree can be a second undergrad degree or a graduate degree. It's
- interesting that Clinton's failure to get a degree wasn't publicized in
- the media before the election.
-