He got used to being an odd man out at Oxford University, which he attended on a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
If it had lasted, the gauzy story would have been far more valuable to its protagonists than any Rhodes Scholarship.
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The Big Daddy has long been the Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, which offers postgraduates a year of study at Oxford in England, in any course they choose.
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Turned down first for a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford and then later denied a fellowship at Cambridge, Schwarzman had little choice but to follow the well-trodden path to Wall Street.
He went to a local secondary school of 49 pupils, then via the state university to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, a Harvard doctorate and eventually to Maryland University, where he spent most of his career.
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Rhodes -- who eventually left most of his fortune to Oxford University, endowing the Rhodes scholarship -- did everything within his power to keep the Nbedele and Shona disenfranchised, denying them the right to vote in 1892 and limiting the amount of land they could own in 1894.
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The Rhodes was joined in 1954 by the Marshall Scholarship, which sends American students to any U.K. university for two years, to study whatever they like.
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The whole world was led to believe Witt sacrificed his Rhodes interview, and a potential ultra-prestigious scholarship, to play the big game against Harvard.
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