And for those keeping score, Rhodes Scholars went two for three on Election Day this year.
Bill Clinton went to Oxford University and surrounded himself with Rhodes scholars who liked to discuss the German educational model.
Tenzin Seldon, a senior and a comparative-studies major from India, was one of five Rhodes Scholars chosen from Stanford this year.
Google also sports 2 Rhodes Scholars and a Fulbright Scholar to boot.
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She is also determined that, as Rhodes Scholars have Rhodes House, her "scholars will have spaces to study and work" and to socialize.
Owned by 28 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, University of the South ranks among the nation's top liberal arts colleges, having produced 25 Rhodes Scholars.
Comparisons to the British colonial tycoon, Cecil John Rhodes, who established the Rhodes Scholars program in 1902 to bring scholars to Oxford University to study, were quickly and easily made.
Such is the ravenous hunger of the funds that dominate the stock market to solicit the brainiest kids before they can go onto become microbiologists, professors of medicine, musicians Rhodes Scholars, or neuro-scientists.
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If you had had a meeting with any of them as a Google hiring manager before they joined the Googleplex, you would have blown away: Ivy League and other prestigious colleges and graduate schools, Rhodes Scholars, McKinsey stints, times working for Larry Summers as Chief-of-Staff in DC.
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The Schwarzman Scholars programme aims to rival the 111-year-old Rhodes Scholarship programme which enables foreign students to study at the UK's University of Oxford.
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