An Echo from Another World.

"Like an echo from, another world" sounds the announcement that 30 American college men are sailing for England to study in Oxford University. They are this year's holders of Rhodes Scholarships.

Has every one forgotten--it would not be strange if we had--that Cecil Rhodes, of South Africa, founded these scholarships to bring together at Oxford representative youth from the British Colonies and the United States? By an after-thought he decided that it might be well to base his hopes for the peace of the world on a little larger representation, so he included five German scholars to be chosen by the Emperor.

An internationalist idea lodged even in the brain of this man, who was in most respects the reverse of an internationalist.

This contradiction speaks in the institution of the Rhodes Scholarship itself. The National groups whence the scholars were to be drawn, with the exception of the United States, are now fighting a murderous war of imperialism. That the American contingent is not fighting only accents the contrast. Perhaps, before they have been long in Oxford, they, too will be in khaki. The thing has happened.

With the theory of the Rhodes Scholarships there need be no quarrel. But what is a scholarship of international good-will, here and there, in a sea of international distrust? There is no individualistic back-stair into the haven of world peace. --Boston Globe.